Ronald Grant

[…]re called up for national service. So in order to postpone the national service until your apprenticeship was finished, you had to go to some further education. And my case it was classes run by the Council on on cinema for cinema operators. ItMike Dick  1:09:02  was technical college.Spea[…]

John Frame

[…] some money so I had to leave. Got as many part-time jobs as I could and, eventually, saw in the Glasgow Herald an advert for Camera Assistant in the Educational Television Service. But it was coming up in eighteen months time. The same advert was also looking for Lab Assistants and I thought, 'Scie[…]

Louise Willcox

[…]our. So I think it started a trend. Or maybe it was it was in your genetics. Maybe she she had that for you. So tell me about your schooling and your education? Well, my schooling was pretty much of a disaster. So we moved to from Liverpool to a place called Hesketh bank, because I was a being a pro[…]

David Elstein

[…]. Both parents were frustrated intellectuals, unable to go to university, partly because of Jewish restrictions. Their ambitions transferred to sons’ education. 03.43 -                      […]

Waris Hussein

[…]he said, she just didn't feel we could just be shunted back and forth. We'd already been put into schools, boarding schools. So that's how my British education started. My father went back to find work elsewhere back in the cotton areas in India and burgeoning, independent India. But my sister and I[…]

Jonathan Balcon

[…] over my last 69 years have sent me postcards of the Hotel du Balcon from various parts of France.  Anyway, he had a conventional grammar School education Mick, quite a good rugby player. He had a congenital defect in his left eye, in which he wasn't quite blind, but it did prevent him, his eye[…]

Lusia Krakowska (Mrs Arendt)

[…]F: So you're here clearly by the skin of your teethLK: YesRF: Right, much to say about the Eastbourne School? Or was that just a conventional English education?LK: A conventional English school and I learnt to eat porridge (laughs)RF: Right, fairly essential isn't itLK: (laughing) Very essential, ve[…]

Michael Aldridge

[…]ldridge  0:20  I was born in 1941 in East London and spent all my early and formative years in East London.  I went through the normal educational system and finally ended up in Ilford County High.Interviewer  0:41  Okay, and what kind of schooling did you receive?Michael Al[…]
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