(Please click on thumbnails to expand images)

This page is for any 'Brat' memorabilia not just pertaining to our own 223 entry,
so if you have a relative or friend who also went through the Halton experience
then please send any material for inclusion.

'Through the decades at bottom of page'

Below displayed in Workshops and Schools to remind us of why we were at Halton 

This, a description of 'Schools' and what you can expect with regards to educational subjects (click link)
Halton Guide to Schools

Some very interesting memorabilia from Dick Bothamley circa 1968 - 70 (our era)

	The apprentice in the centre is from 217 entry, Mick Drury (thanks to Nick Howells also 217)

Click HERE to check out recruitment information from 1977

Inside an RAF Apprentice College

These from the 50's & 60's

These courtesy of the IWM

Aircraft apprentices  listen to a lecture on servicing aircraft in the field, in front of a line of instructional airframes on the airfield at Halton,  989M is a Hawker Audax Mark I,	A class of aircraft apprentices receiving practical instruction in the servicing of magnetos	learning to make repairs to a fuselage of a Bristol Blenheim in the workshops	instructor shows aircraft apprentices how to load a bomb into the racks of an aircraft using hand winches	An instructor lectures to aircraft apprentices on the working of an aircraft hydraulic system	Aircraft apprentices march in shirt-sleeve order from their living quarters to the workshops	An RAF apprentice working on a jet engine at RAF Halton
	Aircraft Apprentices of the 91st Entry  receiving 'Final Airframes' training from instructor Mr Maynall in a classroom hangar containing Hawker Hunter instructional airframes.	How to load a gun pack of four Aden 30mm cannon into an instructional airframe of a Hawker Hunter.	An Aircraft Apprentice has his parachute harness adjusted by a Flying Instructor standing in front of a De Havilland Chipmunk T.10 aircraft prior to an 'air experience' flight	Aircraft Apprentices from 91st Entry work on rebuilding a Messerschmitt Me 163B 'Komet' rocket-powered aircraft for the Science Museum. The apprentices are: Fred Yarwood (in cockpit), Brian Redmore (on steps) and Penswick (at the tail).	Aircraft apprentices listen to a lecture on servicing aircraft in the field, in front of a line of instructional airframes on the airfield

Halton images across the decades
(Many thanks to those that have sent material, especially George Barker (29th entry))

				1930's
				1940's
				1950's
				1960's
				1970's
				These 4 are 2 Wing 1972
				1980's
				1990's
				2000's
				NMA Alrewas

Apprenticeship Information

Apprenticeship Types

The following from the 'Halton Journal' Autumn 1972 edition

Our first entry is from Chris Lowe who's father was also a Halton brat in
the 30's - bet you didn't know that !
Many thanks to Chris for getting the material to me...

Halton magazine 1936 version

Halton Commandant !

Doesn't this just make                                  you want to join up !	If you were good you might have     been allowed to stay out late          and go to the Cinema !	Happy New Year