John Halas

[…]s because I had not yet learned tact. When I was offered a box of chocolates, I didn't take one chocolate, I took the whole box. I think that was the best lesson.(note; in a later memoire my father explained that it was his brother Joseph who was sent to live in Zurich, he, John, was sent to be fatt[…]

Margaret Thomson

[…]nly wrote the script of. And then there's Clean Milk film, which was just a very straightforward exposition of what a cowman should do to produce the best quality clean milk with, with the rather primitive cow sheds and implements that are available at the time. But I remember, it was written up som[…]

Harold Myers

[…]. So it came to the it boiled down to it had to be the film industry. And this is what it was. It took me a long time, patient, snugging away for the best part of two years, and I got a first break of a temporary holiday job at the cinema, the daily cinema, it was run by Sam Harris. That was only a […]

Geoffrey Conway

[…] to half. Manny Yospa: Quite a lot, enough to be recognized, did you get much help from head office. Geoff Conway: Yes. They did their very best. In fact I can remember when we did have a problem, we took up problems and George Elvin was meeting management over one problem, so there was a […]

Ted Hallows

[…]d.Unknown Speaker  10:11  But he would never give if you tried to go underhanded with him. He would never, he wouldn't want to know. So the best thing to do play with Monty. Play Monty straight. He was Monty was always very good to me.Unknown Speaker  10:25  He stood by me on man[…]

Daphne Anstey (nee Lily)

[…] a registry office and then Eve Disher who had been with Arthur, she lent me her flat, and Margaret Ann got all the food and Jo Golightly, he was the best man, and Kay came up with her daughter Pamela. And that was all that was at the registry office. And then we went to the George Pub which is in H[…]

Jim Gorrie

[…]n right across town anyway you know Streatham and you see all the big x big bands you know and let's say I think that for anybody living that was the best time for the stars. I mean to me there's no stars now. Not these people you got on the wall. I mean that's just people you spit people who you se[…]

Muriel Cole

[…]us and rather full of himself, and I was about the person of the lowest degree that came in touch with him at that time. However, by 1941 some of the best of the British, as it were, on the staff were disappearing, dear Freddie James, when Colin had gone, oh, several of the boys whose names now I ca[…]

Philip Leacock

[…]y that you go into a hospital and they try and cure you and help you and so on, and it's not a 'snake pit' situation. And Jane Hylton, who was a nice actress, I think played the lead in it and Montague then went on - Montague Slater went on and wrote a book about the hospital which we worked in.Addi[…]

Adolph Simon

[…][???] So I had, had, anyway I had to jump because you knew there was going to happen in the time it take for the balloon to inflame and burn, so it’s best to get away quick. â€‹Q:​How did you jump out? With a parachute? 00:17:40​ADOLPH:​Yes, yes. So I was shot down three time, once by gunfir[…]
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