JHQ#4

[@claresugarland]

Thank you for this, so many happy years at jhq

[@ru50deb]

Thank you for this. Spent 6 years of my life at Rhiendahlen as my father did two tours in Germany in his Air Force years. Lived in Perth Walk 63-66 and attended St Georges School and Roxburgh Drive 70-73 went to boarding school in England. Happy memories of a wonderful childhood. I still have my sledge!

[@mothmagic1]

That brings back memories

[@hutchjc123]

Thanks for posting. This was my home 1985 to 1989. Great place.

[@grengstarr]

So much nostalgia. It is almost too much for me to bear. I miss it dearly. Thank you so much for this video.

[@stevecook2494]

Thank you for sharing your video. i lived there as a forces dependent 1976-79 age 8-11 and again 1985-87 . Fond memories

[@peteroxley1540]

I was stationed here in 1960, working in the HQ of RAPC. My barracks was at the bottom of Collingwood Road near to the guardhouse. As a National Serviceman, we were paid very little so couldn't afford to use the facilities very often. Had to do an extra 6 months service due to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Best thing I remember is the sports facilities especially football and cricket. Worst thing I remember were the guard duties! Still, some happy memories.

[@mandyking803]

Just seen my room window facing the parade square/come car park in the wrac block on Beresford Road. Got dropped off there by bus with my suitcase in 1984 and boy what an incredible life I had. Such happy days.

[@kevindonkin3534]

Well done Robert....thanks

[@davewilliams8587]

Taught in Windsor School from 1982-1993. Such happy memories of living here. So sad to see it now.

[@michaelknoechner6698]

Thanks for this video which reminds me the exciting days I had in 1973 serving as one of the few German soldiers in JHQ Rheindahlen. I worked in the copy shop of the BIG HOUSE together with a young British Private and a Dutch Stuff Sergeant. We had a lot of fun - mainly caused by my bad English. When I entered the location of Rheindahlen after a short trip with the train from Düsseldorf (where my parents were living to that time) an after a short bus shuttle from Möchengladbach station I felt to be in a strange, but very exciting world - it was not longer Germany , it was more Britain with so many new, unkown things : NAAFI with extrem cheap prices for alcoholics and HiFi prducts, cheese and onion rolls in the BIG HOUSE canteen shop and mainly all the female British soldiers......unbelievable impressing........... I forgot the place of Rheindahlen because of other directions of my life until I got notice in the WEB because of the closure of JHQ and the public discussion of what to do with the place and the remaining buildings in the future. Watching the video I was touched again and I thing I´m not alone to feel so......Thanks again.

[@ed-chivers]

Robert, thank you for sharing this video - I lived on JHQ from 1991-1995 as a teenager, and I remember it really fondly. Of all the places I lived when I grew up, this was my favourite. It's so sad to see it so quiet, and so overgrown. We were a civilian family and in spite of the soldiers with guns, the terror alerts, the fact that we knew the IRA would dearly love to bomb us to kingdom come, I felt safer here in Rheindahlen than I ever did anywhere in civilian life in the UK because it was a real, cohesive community where you felt like everyone had each other's back. I miss that.

[@adamridley7634]

Same here, 91-95. I went to St Andrews then Windsor. Lived on londonderry drive, looking back it was probably best 4 years of my life. The place has been wasted, it had a lot of potential and now looks like the setting of an apocalypse movie

[@dizzyhippy3378]

All my friends can do something I can never do, and that is return to the place they came of age, see people they went to school with or even actually visit the place where they lived at that time. Between 1968 and 73 I lived on the JHQ Camp in Rheindahlen in Germany This camp has now closed for ever and has been returned to the German people. It is sealed off and no one can enter. It was a large camp; this videocovers the main areas without going into the housing estates so to speak and it takes 28 minutes to do it. An English town in a foreigh country with our own culture, similar but separate to that in England. In the words of Gene Pitney: I can never go home again! Thanks for this memory :)

[@jessicahale5085]

Dizzy Hippy I grew up there around the same time. Happiest days of my life

[@8888swatt]

I went back there in 2013 whilst driving back from Aachen. They let us in because we had British passports with us - but to be honest I wish they hadn't. Sometimes it is better to keep the old memory alive rather than overwrite it with a new one. But I know what you mean about not being able to go back.

[@steveh5987]

Thank you Robert for taking your time in creating this and uploading it. Very fond memories of great times and wonderful people.

[@RobertWeissenfels64]

Hi Steven, greetings from Germany, still nice to see feedbacks . Take care ...

[@jessicahale5085]

Thank you for sharing. Brings back many memories

[@otties1]

served here with the dutch army in 1987/1988 thanks a bunch for your video

[@jeremyfox2917]

I lived in the singles accommodation in Beresford Road from 1973 to 1975. I married and moved to a flat in Hardt and subsequently to Fringstraße in Moenchengladbach. At 11:52 I was interested to see the old Army cookhouse which apparently became a theatre! I left Rheindahlen in 1977 but often think about those great days, and great nights at the Marlborough and Queensway clubs! Thanks for the nostalgic drive down memory lane.

[@RobertWeissenfels64]

Hi Jeremy, best wishes from Mönchengladbach. Take care ... Robert

[@miketuppen6438]

Thank you for this - especially the shots of Roxburgh Drive and Dolgelly Walk!

[@MelanieMaguire]

I lived in Huntingdon Way 70 -74 then Banff Walk 78-80. Both in the south-west extension. How I wish you had turned left at 7:45 !!! Still I got to see a lot of familiar places. So sad that it's an overgrown, empty ghost town now. Thanks very much for the upload. :)

[@RobertWeissenfels64]

Sorry Melanie, if i would have known this earlier ..... Viele liebe Grüße aus Mönchengladbach ;-)

[@BigDog366]

Just seen my house on Roberts Road. I was stationed at JHQ 95-97. It's so strange seeing it all again. The land time forgot.

[@318ci]

It's my biggest dream to go in there one day, but it seems impossible to do it without legal consequences, i just want to see history 💔💔💔

[@connertcole]

Robert this great, so nostalgic and so many great memories! I was hoping to see my old house but you turnt left instead of right, its brialmont road! Just a shame its closed now. Great video though, thanks

[@kevindonkin7828]

Wow....my friend. Thanks for the upload. I remember driving round here in the NAAFI transit van during 1979-1991. I guess eventually things had to change......fond memories though. I wonder if the Army gym is still there.....used to train there every lunch break and every evening. Thanks Robert.

[@friddles200]

Very nice video. I worked at the Vehicle Licensing Office (Queens Avenue 135) for hundreds of years...or so it seems :-). *

[@conzyskills7754]

I used to live there

[@jasonroberts6901]

Great 5 years spent at Power Troop RE

[@xjr1300boy]

so sad to see it in a run down state spent 3 years there 86/89 RAF MT

[@RobertWeissenfels64]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYu8oIGYq79jisU More to follow soon ...

[@michaelknoechner6698]

Robert Weissenfels Hallo Robert, what are the conditions to have a walk around in this JHQ area today? Free entrance or special permission required? Can you help ? Thank you in advance ! Regards . Michael Knoechner

[@ivan5919]

The Mally!!!!

[@EvaPilot1]

Hello. Does anybody know what road Windsor House, the boarding house for Windsor school was located on? I've been trying to find it on a map but my memory from when I was young is a bit fuzzy. It was somewhere near the American PX.

[@EvaPilot1]

I ended up finding it on Cambridge Drive. The online maps for JHQ have it marked as No. 3 Civilians Mess.

[@RobertWeissenfels64]

5 Cambridge drive is correct.Between Buschhof Naafi and St. Georges primary school

[@8888swatt]

I used to walk by the boarding house on my way to St George's and wonder who stayed in there and if they were happy. I hope it was alright.

[@victoriawalker7168]

@@8888swatt I stayed in there and it was a really happy place. I loved it and have so many fond memories 😀

[@jonmillm8811]

I was posted here between 15/09/1988 and 19/09/1990 and hated every minute of it, without doubt the worst 2yrs and 4 days of my life. I still have nightmares about the place 27yrs after leaving. That said, it's saving grace was the pizza restaurant close to the Sparky bank, best I've ever eaten!

[@StrongMonica-v2b]

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