L P (Bill) Williams

[…]dical officer that Sheffield had. Then we moved and lived there until 1914, when we came and lived in London 'cause my father went to the Ministry of Education as a Medical Officer. I was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School, in Aldenham, after which I went to the Architectural Association[…]

Rosamund John (Silkin)

[…]ool and was put forward for a scholarship to Oxford but his head teacher wouldn't give him a reference and said he would not profit from a university education because he used to go down to the docks and listen to the Labour men hold forth. But he became a solicitor eventually he told me that before[…]

Gus Walker

[…]the young people we have in the business today, because some of them had no night school technical training or anything, and they weren't sent to get education in the afternoon, like the kids are today, they go to technical school. My nephew went to Wilson, and they qualify get city and girls and th[…]

John Jeffrey

[…] and Henderson’s; JJ now spends a lot of time playing golf; JJ also dedicates time to adult illiteracy.Side 300:00:00 – 00:15:57 JJ talks about adult education, the Samaritans, ARISE, and former colleagues at Colour Film Services; within an hour of the announcement of the King’s death, Hamilton Knig[…]

Paddy O'Gorman

Paddy O’Gorman (PO)Union (ACTT) Laboratories (Technicolor)BECTU No.257Interviewer: Alan Sapper (AS)Date 31/07/921 Tape Side 100:00:00 – 00:05:45 Introductions; born in Tipperary educated by the Christian Brothers; lived in Tipperary until he was 18 when he joined the Irish Army in 1936; one of […]

Sheelagh Rees

[…]at would I do. You know, you say, to people ‘What would you do’? I’ve a friend who said ‘I would love now to have run an art gallery’, having been in education all her life, you know.Yes.I can’t think of anything else I would have done.I was going to ask you of course, I mean I...What would you rath[…]
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