Weston-Super-Mare Reference Library, The Boulevard, W-S-M

With thanks to Ken Toogood (79th Entry) who has taken the time to research and catalogue the copies of the Locking Review held in the Weston-Super-Mare reference library.

Contents
Cover One     - Locking Review (1955 - 1960)
Cover Two     - Locking Review (1962 - 1964)
Cover Three   - Locking Review (1965 - 1967)
Missing Entries

Notes:
This data was collected by Ken Toogood, 79th Entry, in March 2007, in response to the plea for further editions made on the 104th Entry web-side - Locking Review PDF docs page.

Whilst the above-mentioned editions exist in the Reference section of Weston Super Mare library, there is a down-side to them being collected into the three light-blue covers (L35.7).  They simply will not lay flat enough on the copier glass to give a good copy across the entire area of each page.

One of the weakness of the Locking Review was the time delay between reporting and publishing.  It was easy enough getting copies giving information about entries senior to yours but obtaining the edition which covered your own pass-out would have meant ordering it.  Maybe a small proportion did place orders but at pass-out we were just about to make a massive leap into a big unknown.  Where to have it sent - postings came very late in  the ninth term - I know the idea never occurred to me at the time.

It may be a bit late in the day but let me suggest alternative sources.  Does anyone know surviving Squadron or Flight Commanders, Squadron NCOs?  For A Squadron in the nineteen fifties I know that we have lost Sergeant (Geordie) Maxwell and Flight Sergeant Bill Bettel (later W.O.). - are there any survivors for B or C Squadrons?

Alongside the Locking Reviews folders, in the library, are three copies of a "Welcome to Locking" booklet (which includes a site map) and two editions of "Airwaves" a later Station periodical.

Copies of the Locking Review are held; most have been bound into three blue covers carrying the Library Reference code L35.7.  (The odd loose review is Vol.1 - No.5 for 1959)

Cover One - Locking Review - Volume 1 (1955 - 1960)

Volume 1, Number 1 was published in June 1955 and contains articles describing the Pass-Out parades for:
            68th Entry           ?  Squadron                                on 14th April 1954

69th Entry           ?  Squadron                                on 28th July 1954

70th Entry           A Squadron            Blue              on 15th December 1954

There is also an article on Warrant Officer Percy Parkes. 

Volume 1, Number 2 was published in 1956 and contains articles describing the Pass-Out parades for:

71st Entry           B Squadron            Green           on 5th April 1955

72nd Entry          C Squadron            Silver            on 26th July 1955
The 72nd parade was reviewed by HRH Princess Margaret. See photo.

73rd Entry           A Squadron            Blue             on 20th December 1955

Volume 1, Number 3 was published in 1957 and contains articles describing the Pass-Out parades for:

74th Entry           B Squadron            Green           on 27th March 1956

75th Entry           C Squadron            Silver            on 31st July 1956

76th Entry           A Squadron            Blue             on 18th December 1956

Volume 1, Number 4 was published in 1958 and contains articles describing the Pass-Out parades for:

77th Entry           C Squadron            Silver            on 16th April 1957

78th Entry           B Squadron            Green           on 26th July 1957

79th Entry           A Squadron            Blue              on 20th December 1957

Volume 1, Number 5 was published in 1959 and contains articles describing the Pass-Out parades for: 

80th Entry           B Squadron            Green           on 1st April 1958

81st Entry           C Squadron            Silver            on 29th July 1958

82nd Entry          A Squadron            Blue              on 16th December 1958

83rd Entry           B Squadron            Green           on 24th March 1959

Volume 1, Number 6 was published in 1960 and contains articles describing the Pass-Out parades for: 

84th Entry           C Squadron            Silver            on 26th July 1959

85th Entry           A Squadron            Blue              not found

86th Entry           C Squadron            Silver            on 12th April 1960 

            Summer 1962                  92nd Entry pass out on 17th April 1962
Autumn 1962                   93rd Entry pass out on 31st July 1962
Spring 1963                     94th Entry pass out on 18th December 1962
Summer 1963                  95th Entry pass out on 9th April 1963
Autumn 1963 (Missing)     96th Entry pass out on 30th July 1963 (PDF available on this web site. Ed.)
Spring 1964                     97th Entry pass out on 17th December 1963
Summer 1964                  98th Entry pass out on 24th March 1964
Autumn 1964                   99th Entry pass out on 28th July 1964

Cover Three - Locking Review (1965- 1967)
Not yet reviewed, as most of this period is already covered by 104th Entry web site in the form of PDF files.

Missing Entries
            64th Entry (From Cranwell)       ? Squadron                     ?            December 1952

arrived at Locking late in 1952 and passed out a few weeks later

(I guess they finished training and final examinations at Cranwell and moved to Locking whilst waiting on results)

65th Entry (From Cranwell)       ? Squadron                     ?            April 1953

66th Entry (From Cranwell)       ? Squadron                     ?            July 1953

67th Entry (From Cranwell)       ? Squadron                     ?            December 1953

87th Entry                               B Squadron                    Green     July 1960

      The largest number of Apprentices Locking had ever encountered up to 1957.

88th Entry                               A Squadron                    Blue         December 1960

89th Entry                               probably B Squadron      Green?     April 1961 

90th Entry                               probably C Squadron      Silver?     July 1961 

91st Entry                               probably A Squadron      Blue?      December 1961

96th Entry                               ? Squadron                     ?            July 1963
 

Ken Toogood, 79th Entry
March 2007