That brings back a lot of memories. I too laid a lot of cable, and as well as field telephones we had 18, 19 and 88 sets. My first introduction to radio communi

That brings back a lot of memories. I too laid a lot of cable, and as well as field telephones we had 18, 19 and 88 sets. My first introduction to radio communication. What now seems completely surreal is that we also had all sorts of weaponry: rifles, Sten and Sterling sub-machine guns, Bren guns and even a couple of mortars. These were locked away in gun safes and anything automatic was supposed to be disabled, but anyone could have got in using an angle grinder and I'm sure that many of the guns could have been activated again. A more innocent age, I suppose.