Police Training School. PTS. RHKP.

The classes at PTS included all sorts of people from all over the world. In our induction course (but not in my class) was an intense fellow from Northern Ireland. John NOBLE. At the start of the course you had to introduce yourself and give a small talk. Then you had to state an unusual topic to give a talk on for 15 mins with a prep. time of 5 minutes and it had to be interesting (to see who was good at the bull... etc) I went for a talk on Candles, fire and how it has helped mankind, light/heat thro the ages. John stood up and with out any prep went on for 30 mins non-stop on nuclear fission including diagrams. We dare not interupt with his talk in case he had brought one with him in his bag under the table. However a nice person. We all went to the PHQ Arsenal Street, Officers mess for a visit. As you look out of the windows of the 5th floor, outside there is a narrow ledge running around the outside of the floor. The attempt was to see who could climb out the window and walk around the ledge in the shortest time. We all had a go and John had a go and we......closed the window and went shopping.  Eventually the mess captain heard the window knocking and let him back in. He took it in good fun but we always checked under the beds at night in case he proved his lecture theory with a practicle demo.