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John Ammonds Side 1John P. Hamilton 0:01 The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer […]
[…]any anyway. So the discharge is all a few 100. And then about three or four days later, we will call it up into the army. I tried to draw in the army commander Corps and the army photographic unit. But didn't get into that. I probably the reasons why I was fairly fit. I used to belong to the Kodak G[…]
[…]nd stayed here ever since. Always been very handy here you know.Alan Lawson: And what about schooling?Leonard Harris: Oh schooling. Well I went first of all to a little private school here called Kingswood School, just around the corner. It was in the basement of Wesleyan Church I think, it was noth[…]
[…]came and I was due to be demobilised and I reckoned I knew the date that I should come out and nothing happened. So I went across to see a Wing Commander Channel 9 in personnel in the air Ministry and I said, “Oi, what’s happened?” He said, “You’re a PDO in the regular Air Force,” and I said, […]
[…]dn't, you didn't know where you were going, what you were going to do. The first job I got, really of that type was, I was sent down to the Admiralty Commander kimmings. He was then it was great bloke, about six foot six, got a great big, white, flashing teeth, lovely looking bloke. He was an author[…]
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[…]kePB-C = Philip Bonham-CarterPhilip Bonham-Carter: My name is Philip Bonham-Carter. The date today is the 5th October2018. I was born in – at the end of the war, in 1945. Darrol Blake: Where? PB-C: I was actually born in Gerards Cross in Buckinghamshire. My parents at that stage, rig[…]
[…] we trained on those and that was the one place where we did manage to wreck one of his Majesty's aircraft. Canadian pilot and myself and the station commander was not at all pleased because we put his airfield out of action but we were lucky to walk away from me. We were doing a night operation and[…]
