[…]you got into the industry.Norman Spencer  0:42  Well, I was born in 1914. And I was born in Stockwell, which is near Brixton, but I don't remember any of it because I think when I was about six months, my parents I was the first child, my parents moved to a place called gooseberry green, w[…]
[…]p;wasn’t acrimonious in any way he simply decided, you know, that he didn’t wanted to be. And I think we did at that point appoint him a kind of lifetime president or something. So it wasn’t an acrimonious or a difficult parting of the ways but he did that and then we, mm, we got a new Cha[…]
[…]essarily quite so mucha part of London as it is now of course. But in fact, the sort of formative years which were really the war years, the bits I remember when I first began remembering anything, were spent in Kent and in Harrow in I suppose what would be a sort of lower middle class/middle class […]
[…]Bennett's business partner Stuart Birnbaum. Tape 1, Side 1Arnold Schwartzman : Charles, where and when were you born?Charles Bennett : I can't remember when I was born - I know when I was born and where, but I don't remember it. Yes, it was August 2nd 1899. Queen Victoria was on the throne - I […]
[…]w: And schoolingDavid Attenborough: Again my father was rather keen on grammar schools. He thought private schools were not to be encouraged, I can remember him saying there is no point in bringing up children if you're going to get rid of them at the most interesting time off their lives. He told m[…]
[…] was merely using it as a vehicle to further his political career. And I think it's a tragedy what's happened I know people like Harry Gillam given a lifetime to our business nothing you know and unless everybody makes sure that nobody can not that he cares. And of course nobody has any time for the[…]
[…]Orr-Ewing who had been a Wing Commander in radar during the war, and some faceless wonder from the appointments department of the BBC, I can’t even remember who it was, I think it might have been Jack Nott but I can’t remember. Anyway, there were two vacancies and I think there were about seve[…]
[…]e.Peter Musgrave: Were you and Peter Handford given ordinary ranks to enable you to cruise round and not be challenged.John Aldred: We were not given honorary ranks. We had the most impressive document, an identity card, and it was signed by General Eisenhower and I'm only too sorry I don't have it […]
[…]lands against theLowlands which took place on Cobbinshaw Loch and then if you got through that we had theInternational. That only happened once in my lifetime, the frost lasted as long as that. It was the1959 frost but it was tremendously exciting.Taylor/Peet: Was this on a loch or on a flooded fiel[…]
[…]John, and when Caroline was 18 which was about ‘71 he took her and I said my turn next, but unfortunately he didn’t go back again. He went back as an honorary member but he said he found it very boring, he only liked being there when he was on the jury. He had a lot of trips to Russia and we made ve[…]
