Thanks for posting this video it brings back so many good memories I was at Windsor 93-96 great times the teachers were great too. Especially Mr Baron and Mr Martin. It's so sad the way it is now.

Is this where the old boarding school was?

1minute 58 seconds. Circular object is what’s left of the Raydome base which was part of the NBC shelter. I supervised the installation of it in the 90’s brings back some good memories.

My sister went to Queens school 1965 - 1968. Me and my brother went to Kent school in Hostert about 3 miles down the road. Great memories !!!

I was groundcrew on 14 Sqdn May 71 to Nov. 73 with the Phantoms. Won the Salmond Trophy two years on the trot with Sqdn Leader Derek Bryant as our CO. We used to head off down the Rhine or Moselle most summer weekends, enjoying the boat trips and copious amounts of wine, great days indeed. Joing the RAF was one of the best things that I ever did.

Was there '74-'77, great memories! The Queensway Club, Pop's and Eddie's, downtown Monchengladbach! Those were the days!

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.

Ich habe sehr gute Erinnerungen die ich in meinem Herzen trage und sehr gute Erfahrungen mit Englischen Mädels und Jungs, wurde sehr oft mit genommen, Marlboro Club, Bowling, Freibad, Kino Usw. Wunderbare 18 Jahre die ich niemals vergessen werde...

Ich habe sehr gute Erinnerungen die ich in meinem Herzen trage und sehr gute Erfahrungen mit Englischen Mädels und Jungs, wurde sehr oft mit genommen, Marlboro Club, Bowling, Freibad, Kino Usw. Wunderbare 18 Jahre die ich niemals vergessen werde...

Sehr schöne Erinnerungen habe dort 18 Jahre gearbeitet...

Pure nostalgie. Brengt goede herinneringen aan mijn verblijf aldaar in de jaren 1978 en 1979 als dienstplichtig militair naar boven. Maakte toen deel uit van het NSSQ.

Great film. Fantastic to see our old house in Bath Walk. Lots of wonderful memories

Visited the NAAFI while posted to Belgium and The Netherlands. Happy days, 86-89. Only seems like yesterday. I left RAF in 96, in some ways a wise decision. Still look back with fond memories of being young and fit.

I lived at Devonshire Avenue when I was 9 to 11. We went there in 1975 I think. Remember watching Jaws at the cinema!

Thanks for this I lived at 5 Devonshire Avenue from around 1974 to 76. My dad was John Howlett. We really enjoyed Germany 🇩🇪

Lived there when I was 9 to 11 and I still remember it well. Lived at Devonshire Avenue.

Loved remanicing as you flew drone over, I was there 83-86, 68SQN..spirits in the sky..😂, pops & Eddie's, great times & fab people❤️

The yellow building at 3:42 was the Military Intelligence Battalion building. At the bottom right of the main building structure of the Big House was HQ 1 Signal Brigade. MND(C) was at the opposite end on the top floor until it was disbanded in 2002. HQ ARRC took over most of the top floor of the building with the HQ BAOR departments residing in the majority of the bottom floor of the building. When I worked at HQ 1 Sig Bde (96-98), one of my jobs each month was to collect 30 boxes of paper from the store which was at the far right end of the building in the cellar. This was done in a single trip and it was bloody heavy! I had to go from the bottom right corner of the building at 3:42, up the long corridor, down the lift and along to the top right corner......and back again!

Base closures always seem such a waste of facilities.

Why is the place so well guarded?

Nick Bradford- St Davids School 64-67 Lived at 34 Londonderry drive My Father was Capt J.W Bradford royal engineers David Bedwell where are you? Halcyon days!!!

Loved living at RAF Bruggen. (Elmpt and Bremt) Fabulous, the best memories. 1978-1981. Kent school was the best. Lovley times 💜

Great vid! Lived off base for my first 12 months (86 - 90) in MG Rheydt, Richard Wagner Strasse flats before moving into 3 Argyle Drive. Took full advantage of the Belgi Bar and Blue Pool each Friday after our weekly “Beer Call”. Was there when the wall came down, and before that when the IRA mistook a German Officers mess for a Brit one. From that day on everything changed i.e switching BFG plates for UK, searching under our cars for devices, Manning VCP’s etc. Regardless, RAF Rheindahlen was a terrific posting and this video is a really pleasant reminder of those great times!

Thank you for sharing this. We lived in 34 Devonshire Ave. for 3 years. Such a shame to see JHQ like this.

Why are they actually leaving all this to go to waste?

Amazing photography many thanks ,was there in the 1980's and loved every minute of it but never realized the Garrison was so big

Many thanks for sharing, got to see my old camp and accommodation after all these years so sad its deserted now ,so many happy memories

If i'd only had enough funding to purchase JHQ, i'd revitalise it as a suburb!

So sad . I was there back in 1999 till 2004. And was recently there and had a walk around

JAV BBVinny - I have added links to your videos of JHQ on my new website that details the history of JHQ (www.jhq-rheindahlen.com). I hope that you approve of my having added them to the website. If not then I will remove the links. If you do approve, I would like to add some features to the videos. Could you contact me by sending an email to [email protected]

JAV BBVinny - I have added links to your videos of JHQ on my new website that details the history of JHQ (www.jhq-rheindahlen.com). I hope that you approve of my having added them to the website. If not then I will remove the links. If you do approve, I would like to add some features to the videos. Could you contact me by sending an email to [email protected]

Ah, loved seeing my old school - bless! Sarah Gardner - 1974-1980.

Where are the REME workshops ?

Yes, at the start that is the Buschof NAAFI and to the left those streets Uxbridge Way, Colchester Road etc. Definitely St Georges I went there the 1976-77 year, the stultifying heat that summer! Dunno what the big white building was to the left of St Georges but I do recall a group of us were marched over there one day by a teacher to help shift some boxes.

Can't believe they removed the round table tennis tables from the courtyard, they were great fun...

Ich bin als Jugendlicher oft ins JHQ geradelt und habe mir im Bookshop meine Modellbaukästen von Airfix und Revell gekauft. Es ist eigentlich für die Stadt Mönchengladbach ein Armutszeugnis, bis heute keine Verwendung für das Gelände zu finden. Alle Politiker schreien nach bezahlbaren Wohnraum. Hier gäbe es genügend Grundstücke in einem wunderbaren Gebiet. Aber man überlässt es vermutlich lieber Spekulanten oder verhökert anderen Grund und Boden für viel Geld.

Moved many families to and from that base, schnitzel mit pommes at the little cafe opposite main gates was nice.

Used to live in Balymena walk back in 2000/2001

All these houses sat empty and yet there is a housing crisis something not right here ?

Two tours at Bruggen, 79-82 on 31 Jaguars, and 89-93 in the tank bay, finish my time in the RAF there, so sad to see it run down.

I’m sure I swam in a huge pool there?

I lived there in the 70s! You can just about see our old house in the trees beyond the NAAFI at 7:28. I went to Queen's School in those days. Thanks!

Well what memories I have I worked in the internet naafi in the fine porcelain department we used to get naafi stamps and petrol coupons it's a shame it's all gone we done two tours one at wildenrath and bruggen and the girls was born at wegberg 1983 and 1985 I would love to go back to visit one day god bless all of are German military cloced camps it is heart breaking

At the beginning, it looks like you're hovering over the former "Buschof Naafi" or "Small Naafi" as it was also known. 1:54 to 2:30 - That is St. Georges primary school. I went there for a year. 2:30 to 3:20 - MASSIVE playing fields. Spent many an hour running and cycling around on that. Occasionally helicopters used it as a landing site. 3:35 onward - Auckland Crescent. I lived there for about a year before moving to Ballymena Walk at the top end of the camp

When I went there in 1955 it was still being built - I was an AC Plonk working in SHQ on the main road into camp until posted to Tech Wing Admin at Fassberg! Spotted SHQ at 8:48 & 7:31!

When I went there in 1955 as an A.C.Plonk it was still being built - doesn't take long for nature to take back!

This means so much to me - I'm going to show my future kids this I say this is where Daddy grew up. Seriously, thank you. Jack Dean, JHQ from 1995 - 2013

Wow, at 1:43, on the right... that's Ballymena walk. The last house closest to the camera are 53 and 55. I live in 53 91 to 93. Used to have a lovely Plum tree in the back garden too, but it was taken away sometime in the late 90s. I used to play in the woods to the front of camera at 1:21. Fabulous memories. Such a shame to see it slowly overgrowing. Many, many memories. Those walls and streets could tell a story or two.

Great vid! Best days of my childhood spent there. Oh, Windsor was a High School, not a primary ;) Just FYI. Out of interest, what drone did you use for this? It had a fantastic range!

I do miss my bed space!