[…]ah. Uh,Speaker 3 7:06 just about that time in history, my mother gave me a letter to deliver to my uncle, and I went over to the hallowed central office of the LMS railway, where there's a very large notice which says silence. And I sat in the waiting room, and my uncle sent for me. I ha[…]
[…]I had to get the famous workmen's from Ruislip to Wembley Park. No two were to Willesden Willesden Green it was a trolley bus I think to Hendon Central and then it was a train from Henderson central to Elstree and then about a five minute walk from our Elstree down to the studios now that's go[…]
[…]tingly, they're in different ways in what is now Slovenia is a British GP type system. Whereas in what are now Croatia and Serbia, there was the more central European polyclinic system where nobody had a GP and you always went to a great big place. Anyway, I wrote, I did a lot of investigative work […]
[…]the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when and where were you born?GH 11.5.1931 in Wales, a place called Llandridod Wells which is in Central Wales. It is now Powis, it was then Radnorshire. I think it sounds better Radnorshire but I don’t think the Welsh would agree.AL W[…]
[…]film work. I'd got no background except these sort of semi-amateurish films. And one of the many people I went to see, who I found was working at the Central Office of Information was Allan Izod, film editor from before the war, who I knew. So I phoned him and I went to see him, and he said well I r[…]
[…]other one here for my secretary said what do you have to go and see separately given no No, no, you see something worse? What do they call themselves central services? services? Yeah, I said well, I wanted tomorrow. I haven't got time here but departmental stuff I said you've got flats here, put up […]
[…] and then we were sent all over to anybody who wanted a secretary, because they didn’t have secretaries, I mean even Roger Makins who was head of the Central Department in those days, and you can imagine that at the beginning of the war how busy he was, he answered his own telephone. So if he was tr[…]
[…] I mean even Roger Makins who was head of the Central Department in those days, and you can imagine that […]
[…] Christina, you remember Christina, don't you? RL: Yes, yeah. GM: Anyway, Christina was the official for all this, what was then called the Central Services areas: catering, security, cleaning, building engineering. RL: Was that a kind of blue-collar area? GM: Yes, it was a blue-[…]
