ATCC Building
Notice the slope on the pyramid. The electric generator, used for an emergency supply when cables were cut, is on the right. Searchlight can be seen on the roof.
Another view of the ATCC building RAF El Firdan would have been immediately to the left of the photo
Operations Room
Flt Lt D Martin (seated) as DATCO.LAC Lewis S, standing, probably on the phone to RAF Fayid. Alteration must have been going on in the CO's office as the safe was not usually in this room.
Operations Room.
On the left is Flt Lt N. Hearn-Phillips (DATCO).He flew Beaufighters out of Malta during WW2.Clerks are Vic Harrison & Joe Pearson
ATCC Notice
Flt Lt D Martin (seated) as DATCO. LAC Lewis S, standing, probably talking on the phone to RAF Fayid. Alterations must have been going on in the CO's office as the safe was not usually in this room
MAIS (Master Aeronautical Information Service)
SAC Jones JPL bringing files up to date.We had information here of every RAF airfield in the world
Radio Room
Pete Giffen taking down a message on circuit Med 200, Pete was distantly related to George Giffen, a famous late 19th century Australian cricketer
Off to work
Evening Duty - Summer 1954. Jerry Pryor, Vic Harrison & Brian Moss. As the lads are dressed in long trousers it must have been for the watch work starting at 18:00 hrs as shorts were not allowed to be worn after that hour