Dear all

 

I wonder if anyone can shed light on an interesting story I have heard, from a respectable and reliable source. In the context of women’s camps at Greenham, I have been told that the 1980s camps there were not the first, and that during WWII a campsite was set up of ‘working girls’ from the East End who came to Greenham to … how should I put this … ‘look after’ the airmen based there. In mentioning this to a colleague, he responded that he didn’t know about Greenham but this was indeed the case at other airbases, and predominantly American not British (they had more disposable income I believe). Of course such things are a common feature of Naval towns and runs-ashore, as I know from Malta, but I hadn’t heard of women camping outside airbases. Can anyone shed any more light on this, or provide examples.

 

Many thanks.

 

John