John Brabourne (Knatchbull)

[…]ill make it together. It was a huge battle we were extremely lucky. Call my memory for names. The actor writer who who was then head of production at EMI films. Now you will know who he was he wrote his weapon Dickie Attenborough a lot. Although those early days that what was it? What is his name? A[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]tically, I wasn't interested in science, but I got interested in science when it became mathematical. I was interested in it when you could mix two chemicals together and they either change colour or blue up one or the other. And, but it's the moment I got into science in school, which there was one[…]

Francis Gysin

[…]sp;during the war. This is 1940. That would have been in forty one I would Emily and I was forty two during the long vacation John Page Peter Hennessy and&[…]

Frances Cockburn

[…]d it immediately. No problem. This this appealed to me enormously. I'm thinking that that was the Ships Ships with Wings. I was going to work on San Demitro That guy was ill and could'nt do it. But I did work for time witj  Cavalcanti the Cavalcanti turned up there. Now he had been given contro[…]

Ted Hallows

[…]couldn't get out? Did I know three? I said, I was born here. Oh, that's fine, she said. So I got an order, a list like this for the nurses, for the chemists, the bull shops, and that they said, All right, while you go. Then that said you can stop out to dinner time. And so I had a cycle around the t[…]

Alan Lawson

[…]t day and he said as soon as you're got your regimental number you're to get in touch with me, which I did. I'd been drafted to the Royal Engineers Chemical Warfare. My base was to be Barton Stacy which isn't far from Handover, 1 think Long Parish was the actual address. I was doing basic training a[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…] you mean somebody, [Laurence] Olivier, playing a Russian?WR: Yes.LH: Something about a Russian propellor design I seem to remember-RF: [Interjects] Demi Paradise.LH: You remember that do you?RF: Yes, about the Russians.LH: You remember the schemozzle I mean?RF: No, no.LH: About Bert Bachelor?WR: We[…]
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