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Subject: 'Pictures of Lippy'

Author:
Jim Martin

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Date Posted: 12:34:14 04/05/05 Tue

To those that served at Churchill Bks in Lippstadt regardless when, or come to that whether with 42 or 27 Regiments! I don't know about you but I have particular fond memories of that posting in fact I will say that it was one of the best locations in BAOR or was!... The night-life in that town was something else! Used to have beer-tabs everywhere at all the guesthouses that I frequented in them days and come pay day spent my time going around the various establishments settling up and by the time that I reached the last one I was once again 'skint'! so to speak, so once again the slate was re-established for another month! There were many of the guys doing the same scam in them days. Unlike today, you didn't pay any interest on the Bill! Any de-faulters would find themselves beating the carpet on Orders as all the Guesthouse proprietors had to do was produce the beer mats with your Name, Rank and Number on it to the Pay Master to receive payment that was due, it was as simple as that!...Not many people bucked the system in them days! I used to go out on the Town with only enough money to pay any Taxi-fare in my wallet and a contingency fund of a couple of hundred marks stashed in my shoe to cover for any eventuality that occurred! That was what it was like in those days! You never went down town until after ten o'clock at night as before you did the tour of the establishments within the confines of the Camp before departing for the Bar's and fleshpots of Lippstadt itself! Memorable days that I can remember with affection I would think!.....What say you?

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