[…]e a sort of chronology?John Hogarth : Yes. I was born in February 1931 and entered the industry in September of 1946. It's a point of quiet amusement for me that at the end of 1946 the yearly admissions reached their absolute peak in Great Britain, with 1640 million admissions, and immediately upon […]
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[…]mm, at an early age. I don’t know that I’d everclarified it into anything concrete. Certainly my thinking was sort of academic at a very early age. Unfortunately he died when I was eleven.Oh.[Pause]HARRY COURCHA 1And what was your first job?Mm, well, [Pause] on the report from school at fourteen it […]
[…]n South Wales, Troed-Y-Rhiw (foot of the hill), 1921; grammar school until 16; moved to West Drayton; first job in a carpet factory dissecting carpet for quality control; moved on to working in traffic control but he didn’t have enough qualifications.00:03:00 – 00:05:20 Applied for a job at Technico[…]
