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Topic: Lossiemouth - local knowledge - L & M?? (Read 587 times)
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twilight
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My father was at Lossiemouth in 1943, for RAF air crew training -- he writes in his journal "eventually reach Lossiemouth, have a beer and learn of the L & M"
Can anyone please tell me what the "L & M" might be?? Stuff of myths & legends perhaps? Considering it was learned in the Pub, & in Scotland, & he considered it worthy of noting down, -- I have long been wondering!
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twilight
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Hello Stuart,
Thanks for your thoughts. You are ptobably pretty close to the mark! Dad was rather interested in history & also keen to learn about his new environment. He had travelled from Dumfries............." left at 16.45 and caught train, changed at St Enoch's, lorry to Buchanan St & on to Aberdeen & stay until 8am. Change at Elgin & eventually reach Lossie. Have a beer & learn of the L&M then catch bus to Milltown" .........Quite a trip. I guess he needed a beer by the time he got there. He would have been conspicuous in his RAAf uniform & even moreso when he started chatting to the locals in the pub! Although it was most unlikely he was the only stranger in town at the time. So it could just as easily have been fact or fiction that he learned, or perhaps a bit of both?
He was training with a bomber crew. They were later based in Yorkshire & flew in Halifaxes & all made it home after completing their tour.
Thanks again for your interest.
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twilight
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Hello again Stuart,
Apologies for the slow response to your last post, I have been away.
Thanks for that information, it will provide a good landmark if I have the opportunity to visit the area. I have been to Scotland twice, but not to Lossie, so it will definitely be on my list for next time!
Thanks again for your interest,
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Milltown was, I believe, a satellite of RAF Lossiemouth. It is currently an arial 'farm'.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/gridref/NJ2665
RAF Milltown was used by the RAF Fulmar Gliding Club until 1976, when the aerials were built and the gliders had to move out.
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