[…]nother little anecdote - we’d say “you got any sheets, lavatory cleaner” that sort of thing, and it was the custom to buy a pair of sheets: two bob [Two shillings, i.e. 10p] or something. My granny bought those sheets and they were never ever opened. In fact, the day she was killed – she was k[…]
[…]le used to treat women used to send me round the bend. [0:20:00 189] I remember coming back from a meeting once and it was quite late about midnight. Bob was in bed and I opened this tax thing and I sort ofread it all the way through and after I‟d sort of looked at all the questions and the answers […]
[…] meeting once and it was qu ite late about midnight. Bob was in bed and I opened this tax thing […]
[…]cause I worked seven days a week and I had got blown about a bit in Normandy. I think a combination of overwork, Bells whisky I should think about 10 Bob[Ten shillings = 50 pence] a bottle, 60 cigarettes a day[Side 2, 08:41]DMW: and general fatigue, I mean to get this bloody thing on the air - I had[…]
[…]was getting nothing,Unknown Speaker 8:52 nothing at all. No,Speaker 3 8:56 sorry, Alan. And then after three months, I got 15 Bob a week, and that went up to 30 Bob after another three months. So after a year, I think I was getting 25 Bob or something. You know, I was living […]
[…]enly, by this time my father had now become a street book maker and he had a gentleman who used to bet with him, his name was, I'm not sure if it was Bob, but something West, were turned out to be the master painter at BIP, and he was also a distant relative of one of my distant relatives, and sudde[…]
[…]ere a hidden camera? Well, not exactly ahead, there was a man in charge of the of the of the camera department of the loading room and his name was Rabobank. But the crews were assigned in another office down what we call the Polish corridor, where the the big word were Victor piers was one of the p[…]
[…]n : Side Two.Gordon McCallum : Side two, right! [Chuckling.] Yes, 'This Happy Breed', that was a very fine film - very moving, with a wonderful cast. Bob Newton, Stanley Holloway, Celia Johnson, you will remember. Kay Walsh, Johnny Mills - oh what a cast! I am right in saying Johnny Mills was in tha[…]
