News
Got some news?
If you would like something posted on the website send it to Steve Harris. We are especially interested in news of people meeting up and photos of the occasion would be great!
Really sad news
Rob Birchmore died from Covid in February 2021. Two of the Entry died in 2020, Steve Parsons after a long battle with cancer in February and Mark Lemon very suddenly in May. Rob and Mark were regular enthusiastic attendees at our reunions. Mark was the powerhouse behind the Entry Facebook Group and all things to do with 126. RIP Rob, Steve and Mark - we miss all of you.
Recently Back in Contact
2020 brought some more Entry members back into the fold - Roy Fraser, Rob Martin, Paul Harding, Adrian Rogers and Dave Watts.
Help Required! Where are they?
We have found and are in contact with most of the entry who graduated. There are just 3 more graduating Entry members remaining to be found. Please help us to find Ian Hall, Ian 'Ginge' Wilson, and Phil Roberts . If have any idea of where they may be or even better, how to make contact with any of them please say so! If you know of the whereabouts of any of our entry who didn't make it through the whole 3 years let us know and we will invite them to join our group and come to the reunions. If you are in contact with any of them please point them in our direction, or if you know their whereabouts please pass the information to us. If you can help with information, are willing to help in the search or are one of those we are looking for, please get in contact. We are currently in contact with 82 Entry members.
Keeping In Touch
Impromptu meet-ups have taken place across the UK and Europe over the winter of 2019/20. Soaking up the sun and getting a bar tan in Cyprus were Tom McIntyre, Ian Albiston and Cyprus resident and villa builder Nik Williams. Rob Siddall, Geoff O'Hara and Steve Harris drank a few beers together in Topsham, Devon. Mark Abbott and Ian Albiston had some glasses of sparkly in a champagne bar in Cleethorpes! In the summer of 2020 Tom McIntyre was busy socialising with Paddy Doyle at the Yorkshire Air Museum and with Ian Betts in Bedale. Professional St Andrews Course caddy Mal Lister played some golf with Paddy and on another occasion with Keith Powell up in Fife. Gerry Fox and Giles Greenwood drank the place dry at Neil Plumbley's surprise birthday party in Shropshire. We have held 3 Entry Zoom meetings with over 20 participants in each. In between covid lockdowns in 2021, Tich Martin, Giles Greenwood and Kev Emberson met up at a Service reunion in Norwich, and Steve Harris had a few beers with John Newton, Ian Albiston and Geoff O'Hora in Somerset.
2018 Reunion
We came from California, Texas, Spain, France and from all over the UK to attend the reunion in Shropshire over an October weekend. We were based in Shifnal, close to RAF Cosford which was the focus for our Friday afternoon tour of No.1 School of Technical Training (including a special viewing of The Queen's Colour) and the Saturday visit to the RAF Museum. Early arrivals met up in a wine bar on Thursday night. Former Propulsion Instructor Phil Rigby was our Entry Guest. We had a Friday evening Meet & Greet in a local pub. Each night there were nightcaps to the early hours of the morning in our hotel. Our Saturday night Entry dinner was preceded by the arrival of a Green Goddess. The after-dinner highlights included some videos from absent mates and a testing quiz! Goodbyes were said on Sunday morning before some headed to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire to see the Halton Apprentice Memorial including our Entry Brick. Check out the photos in the Gallery section.
Attending:
Tony Adams
Angela Adams
Mark Abbott
Jennifer Abbott
Ian Albiston
Dawn Albiston
John Bain
Judith Miward-Bain
Terry Bastin
Robin Birchmore
Dave Blissett
Lesley Blissett
Mark Bridle
Gordon Bruce
Janice Bruce
Nick Desmond
Julie Desmond
Terence Doyle
Brenda Doyle
Kev Emberson
Veronica Emberson
Gerry Fox
Giles Greenwood
Derek Harper
Debbie Barnes
Steven Harris
Steve Hazell
Liam Hughes
Simon Jones
Mark Lemon
Wendy Lemon
Kier Linfield
Paul McGilligan
Steve Miller
John Newton
Geoff O’Hora
Mick Partridge
Glenda Partridge
Paul Paterson
Chris Pavey
Alison Pavey
Neil Plumbley
Helen Plumbley
Keith Powell
Phil Rigby
Andy Roberts
Sue Roberts
Alec Robson
June Robson
Jacqui Robson
Cass Singleton
Cheryl Singleton
Paul Turnbull
Tim Wanklin
Sue Wanklin
Steve West
Anne West
