Ray (Ramon) Morse

[…]errible accident. The train caught fire and everything. It was reported in the papers that my mother has been killed because they recognise the blond hair and the Musquash coat . Fortunately , we got on the CPR, not the Grand National there wasn't my mother's fault . So we did get there safely. But […]

Anne V Coates

[…]icket in the lunch break you know, and I went off playing French cricket one day; came back five minutes late from lunch, rather sweaty, you know, my hair hanging down, puffing and, sort of laughing, you know. And Reggie Mills said, you know, he was furious, he lay into me, absolutely wiped the grou[…]

Chili (Dorothy) Bouchier

[…]t girl days I had this mad mop of dark curly hear which would not lie down, it’d just stuck up all over the place and it was, everybody knew me by my hair. She said “We’ve got to take that hair away from her face, we can’t see her eyes”. So that was another test we had to do to get the hair off my f[…]

Charles Picken

[…]inburgh Film Guild Committee and in the following few years between us held the positions of Secretary and Treasurer with me laterally being elected Chairman until the pressures of travelling back regularly from my by then base in Newcastle made continuing with this a bit too time consuming …but aga[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]... you'd put little tiny bits at a time. 0:13:17.1 MIKE: What were the wigs made out of then? Do you remember? 0:13:19.3 JOY: Well, it was hair. I'm sure it was real hair because it was very fine. I think it was real hair. So you'd get a long strain of hair and you'd just cut the bit beca[…]

Daphne Shadwell

[…]ard education, but on the junior school line that we had, we had a wonderful time, we were treated and spoilt, you know, we used to carry our little chairs out – ‘It’s a nice day, we’ll take the chairs out and go outside’ – and we used to carry our little chairs out, sit in the garden[…]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

[…]s.[First Aid Nursing Yeomanry]Yes.As a driver. They weren’t going to take me because I wasn’t tall enough but thesergeant or whoever it was pulled my hair up a bit and put me on an inch or half inch and I got in and I was sent to Lichfield. And it was an orphanage and it was extremely bleak and we w[…]
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