[…]of this bloody ship!" And I was transferred to the Dutch Navy, and I had an office in the [CNA] building at Marble Arch. I was promoted to Lieutenant Commander, which I didn't know about at the time, I didn't discover that until a year afterwards. I didn't know, I was dressed as a Lieutenant when I […]
[…]a considerable amount of money and as we all needed to have some leave, I went off on leave and came back into my horror found that the chief advisor commander Haynes of Central Rediffusion services, decided they didn't like the colour of the acoustic tiling, which was plain white acoustic tilings a[…]
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[…]iginal dress and philosophy er - was developed in the first instance by him and then er - was moved out, partly by his efforts, partly by the efforts of, of, of, were stimulated - public relations officers who saw the chance for their own area to be enhanced by film. And so you had two tendencies, r[…]
[…]. I kept the card, and it says AC [Air Craftsman] Fowler 2276864. Air Ministry pass with a big blue cross on it, and there was just myself and a Wing Commander, who rather like Geoffrey Dell and Cavalcanti was the epitome of the perfect English gentleman, lovely wonderful man. And there I was in the[…]
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Interviewer  0:00  This is an interview with Mike Aldridge and is the property of the History Project for BECTU.  The date today is the 15th of September 1997. And, Mike,can I ask you where and when you were born?Michael Aldridge  0:20  I was born in 1941 in East London and […]
