[…]ey said I live got an exhibition on my general paper alone before the war, but because of the women's intake from ex service, and as I had a Scottish Headmistress, she said I was far too individual for Edinburgh, because they had general classes of about 1000. You know, doing English or early stages[…]
[…]ery difficult, although I can have a very unpleasant time like that. And the compensation was music. They had a very, very good music department. The head which Michael Caine stops was, am I speaking too loud? I'm not loud enough. Is that right? Yes, okay. A man called Ken Stubbs, who was ultimately[…]
[…]o on to university, but it was very difficult at that time because you’d got all the people leaving the forces, but still, I was having a go. But our headmistress had a very enlightened, well, it was only just beginning to be practical, of getting people down to talk for careers - matron of a nursin[…]
[…] it and finally got to the point when he was head of it. But his work took him around the […]
[…] Where were they based? South Street. David Henley was the head of the department and I worked with Olive Dodds […]
[…]ause I didn't know much about sound or questions about sound. And I didn't know much about that. And it just so happened, he mentioned this me to the head of camera department at the time. So we could do with a boiler workshop. So I started work in the capital workshops. That was just after Eastern […]
[…] had an interest in the weather and weather forecasting so I got a job as an assistant scientific officer with the Met Office and was posted to their headquarters in Bracknell, as it was then, and I found myself in the department that dealt with wind and sunshine record keeping, and archiving and st[…]
[…]anything. That was all done by the civil service, called the Naval Store Department, and my father was in it and finally got to the point when he was head of it. But his work took him around the various dockyards, from Chatham, Portsmouth, Plymouth...up to Scotland, and we tended to travel round, ac[…]
[…]n for something. And I was born I think it was number 12 Waterloo road. Now Waterloo road at that time, there were houses on the as it were the bridgehead leading up to the passage over the river. And number 12, although we left I left there before I was old enough to remember because we left there […]
