Thanks for posting this video it brings back so many memories I went to Windsor School 93-96 if only I could go back in time and tell myself these years will be some of your best years. So sad to it now lifeless and so overgrown. 😢

Full of beautiful memories, I was there for my military service as a Belgian driver in 1983… sad feeling to see all these abandoned buildings, it looks like the end of the world

the milatery really looked after us in those days and for me it was 50 years ago

What a waste. A once thriving and vibrant place full of memories. I had a holiday job pushing petrol at the BP garage opposite the shops. Remember the coupon system? I also had holiday jobs at the Buschoff NAFFI and the International Restaurant (junior ranks mess). Certainly learned the value of a DM. (Pre €).

Figaro, great barber

It's criminal they let it go into this state. I can't watch it anymore, it's too upsetting.

0:25 Vehicle Check point Charlie, road goes towards Wegberg Hospital. 0:53 Car park directly opposite the main NAAFI entrance.

We lived in Worcester Way. I worked in Buschof Naafi. Rem Queensway & Marlborough Nightclubs - Pop's and Eddies - two clubs just off Base that stayed open late.

Went to Windsor Lower from 86-89. Absolutely gut wrenching to see. Can't believe it was occupied by 20,000 people at the height of the cold War.

Man was könnte man daraus alles machen, stattdessen wird es zurückgebaut und dem Erdboden gleichgemacht

I usedcto live in the flats in Buschoff in 1974 - 1977. Went to Queens School. I was hoping to see the Blue Pool

It is so strange seeing it all abandonded we were here from 1997 - 2001. I've been searching up all of our old addresses while my dad was serving and it's weird seeing them all abandon now 😢

How surreal to see it as a ghost town, my dad was a warrant officer at jhq and we lived there for 3 years in the early 80s. Its the 5th anniversary of his passing so im on a nostalgia vibe. Went to Windsor school but for the life of me I can't recall the road we lived on. Was there a Shrewsbury lane? That's my best guess. Wish I could ask my dad.

If anyone knows Joanna Long, please let me know, She has worked in the Offices /Churchill Mess as a waitress .also look for a soldier in which Seargents Mess worked as a cook, he was called, Parky, and A Seargent Dave Moore. Will be happy to hear something. There are still some whose names I don't remember.

Sehr schöne Erinnerungen Habe dort 18 Jahre gearbeitet..

Lived in wickrath '78-'81, first went to st clements school in wickrath, then onto queens school in rhein-d, and remember saturday morning pictures where each week it would alternate between the astra and globe cinemas. Always remember the old rickety green buses to get us to school and cinemas. If we were lucky we'd get the posher 55 seater buses to ride in lol. Heartbreaking to see it overgrown and desolate.

I can't remember what years I was here with dad, but it would have been at some point in the 90's (Royal Engineers), we moved so much. But I remember the checkpoint and the mirrors going under the car. I remember the NAAFI and the beavers/cubs... in fact I remember lining up as a beaver or cub as the (now) King visited. It's not easy being an army brat and places like JHQ Rhinedahlen were so important in my formative years. I miss it.

Great memories ♥️😢

Last time I was at JHQ was 1980 as a 14 year old. Do remember a lot of streets/places in this film. Great clip.🙂👍

I Miss the troublemaker at the Old Town ( Altstadt Mönchengladbach) every weekend...

Lived here and wickrath my old Northen Irish father ran the youth club was a RAF fireman crash crew bruggen 1970 / 5.

Such wonderful memories for me, my dad was stationed there in the RAF, I started my first job at the headquarters and was the best time of my life. So sad looking at it now. My dad worked in the education department, I started as a post girl then worked in the reproduction department. 1969 always made me smile. Catherine O'REILLY

How did you get acces to take pictures on the terrain? With all the security being there and such

Started school as a 5yr old at St Patricks in 1960….. worked at RAF Rheindahlen Central Registry in my gap year 1973-4…… taught at Kent/Queens/Windsor School 1987-1991. So many very good memories 🇩🇪😊

Grew up here, left when I was 5 years old back in 1991. I remember a lot still, carnival and they used to put smoking pipes in loafs of bread (I think they still do) I never wanted to leave.

It brings back so many memories 😭 I loved living there. So many friends

I lived in Huntingdon Way 1970 - 74, St George's school, Queens Lower School, SW Extension. Blue Pool, The Globe and Astra, the Big Naafi, the Little Naafi, the Fuchsbau, the Thrift shop, the riding stables, sports days, climbing pine trees, walking through the beautiful woods, soft pine needles underfoot, visiting historic German and Dutch towns, shopping at C&A in Monchengladbach. Everywhere so clean. Concrete Cellars and attics, a concrete boiler in the cellar with wooden tongs and an old mangle. Teak G-plan. Wooden shutters on french windows. Left-overs from days when there were servants - buttons on the walls for bells in the rooms, ringing in the attic bedroom. Safe, happy times. Best times of my childhood. We went back there 1978(?) - Banff Walk, SW Extension. Ration cards, parties, Queens Upper School 6th form, bicycling everywhere, a great social life. I always thought that I would go back and visit. But it's gone. My childhood hometown is gone. How can that be? It feels terrible.

Lived at 34 Londonderry drive

Such great memories of going to St Davids school 64-67.memories of the NAAFI and David Bedwell was a good friend who I would love to meet again! Football on the big field and the lido with its huge diving board and 15 m pool! Miss Lux was our teacher in my last year at St Davids Good times. Nick Bradford Son of Captain J.W.Bradford Royal Engineers

I wonder what the plan is for this complex, now?

I'll just say Pops & Eddie's. If you know you know.

Tugs at the heart strings, lived in Appleby walk in 60's,went to queen's school. Just the best years ever. Only us rheindahlen fans know.

This brings a tear to my eye, I was there between 1996-99 and 2005-08😢

Another happy base occupied only by ghosts

My last posting here was in 2010. So sad to see it now. I recall a vibrant and lively community which left me with many great memories.

So sad to see :(

After watching my uploaded video and seeing these photographs it is so sad. A great posting with the birth of our second daughter in Wegberg in the early 70's. I never thought I would get the opportunity again to visit Rheindahlen so many times whilst I was the Energy Manager in PRB Gutersloh 2007-2013. I wish I could have stayed to be part of the closing ceremony. Always remembered with fondness.

Loved it there 1984 1987

I was stationed with my family from 2001-2003 best part of my childhood any many amazing friends. Miss this place dearly used to live on Lancaster and Russell

Hello! I lived on JHQ from 2000_2002 and I was coming back to Germany to visit this fall and I wanted to see my old house. Can I just drive through it? Or is it blocked off to the public?

This made me cry so much. Some of the best years of my life were lived here. My dad was in the British Army and we lived in JHQ from 1999-2003. I went to St. Georges school and then Windsor. I went on my first school trip while living here, and my sister was born here, this was her first home. I used to go to the Naafi and buy sweets and the Simpsons comic and Beano. I remember going to the bowling alley and I always thought they had the best burgers. I made so many good friends here and I remember the year they found an undetonated bomb. I used to rollerblade and scooter all over the place. I also remember a big fun event they put on, on the field behind my house with BBQs and big bouncy castles. I lived on Devonshire Avenue and I loved this place. It breaks my heart to see it like this.

In 2013 me and Johnny Owens who had served there in the 1960's with the RAF on communications visited the camp for the 'Beating of the Retreat' ceremony as well as the parade up to the Alte Markt in the town. We both took many pictures and video footage at the time when the place still looked lived in. I have a very large archive of photo's, brochures and historic information which are mostly posted on www.QueenswayClubSurvivors. com. We are always looking for new members. Footage is now on DVD and can be made available. Sad to see the place as it is now.

So sad to see, what a waste, use to travel from 38 sqn at mulheim most weekends in the mid 70,s, as a teenager bought my first car from there, loved the place

Teenage memories from the late 70s. Worked at the Blue Pool, Naafi, Went to Queens School, lost my virginity there. Anyone remember Pops and Eddies

gibts das noch und kommt man da so rein?

Wow so sad. I lived on camp in the late 60's til late 70's. From St Georges school then Queens lower and Queens upper school, worked in the small NAAFI it is so sad to see it now.I feel hollow inside.(old age I expect?)

I grew up there from 1974 to 1980 and it's sad to see it abandoned but still easily recognisable after all those years. Lots of great memories.

Was there with ARRC Sp Bn 1995 to 2000 as a Sapper.

I went to Queens School Rheindahlen back in 60-62 when my father was stationed at Wildenrath. It is so poignant and thank you for the video

I was there at Queens School 1968-71. Fantastic times. People I remember are Charlie Miller, Mike Morrisey, Paul Feavior (fifi), Mark Ormrod, Debbie Smythe, Linda Marshall, Lorraine Wong, Gideon Weinbaum, Mike Noble, Ronnie Scheinman and many others. Teachers included Mr Daisy, mrs Hodges, miss Viney, mr Aspinal. Lots of sport, cinema, Blue Pool etc - I didn’t realise how lucky I was. Sad to see the camp in such a dilapidated state. My surname back then was Casbolt (Cas).