Social Company
Social Company
A few females hung around the camp and they were allowed to come to the camp cinema and the Naafi. But not many airmen had made friends with them, mainly because they didn’t have much spare cash and quite a few of them had wives or girlfriends at home.

Beverley town was the headquarters of the East Yorks Regiment in addition to being the nearest town to Leconfield. There were many pubs in the town and that is where most personnel from the camp went for a drink especially at weekends mostly in the company of a few of their mates. There was always plenty of female company in the pubs who were looking for someone to buy their drinks but we usually ignored them. Some of the East Yorks soldiers were customers of the same pubs but there was rarely any trouble and we seemed to get on quite well with them.

One social custom which we noticed immediately about the English pubs were that women frequented them. Women were not very obvious in Scottish pubs for many years after the war but would go to them if on holiday in England and felt very daring for doing so. Hull was the nearest city and we occasionally went to the Cecil Cinema there but at that time Hull was still recovering from the WW2 bombing. Apart from London. Hull was the most bombed place in Britain.
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