The RAF boys came down to the church in their droves
Recorded 4 years ago
About this recording
Kathlyn Harper recalls Sunday evenings during World War Two when the ladies of Wick Old Parish Church laid on tea and sandwiches for airmen stationed at the town's RAF base.
The ladies would keep their sugar rations for this purpose, with a complimentary churn of milk delivered from Westerseat Farm.
"It was so handy for the troops," Kathlyn says. "They came down from the airport in their droves because they had nowhere else to go. Some of the forces were church people and some even joined the choir."
Kathlyn also remembers family dancing sessions at home on a Saturday evening when a programme of Scottish country dance music was broadcast on the wireless. They had been gifted a small radio by a recently widowed RAF bride.
This is one of a series of four recordings made with Kathlyn in September 2022, the month after her 92nd birthday.
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