[…]ad special machinery developed by ICL. ICL was going to be England’s big answer to IBM, and effectively, I arrived at the IWM, with David Penn as the Head of my department at about the time when it was becoming clear that although all of this kit was wonderfully clever and intricate, and imaginative[…]
[…] him to retire from the sea. And subsequently, by what steps I don't know, he became a brewer. And from the earliest time that I remember him, he was head Brewer at Meux's Brewery Limited in in London, which was practically on the site where the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of g[…]
[…]ds, but if you genuinely liked pop music… you were regarded as a complete… mad person… I had things written on my annual reports from the head of department saying that… I was… I ‘ve got to think of the word… what’s over-enthusiastic?.. Nutty about something[…]
[…]y with it. We went up on a four week course to learn how to be teachers and I got acting sergeant because I was now an instructor and I was posted to Headquarters of Fighter Command which was at Stanmore.And the unit there that sort of provided the staff for the Headquarters was like a little Air Fo[…]
[…] Chief Accountant, who was a man called J.G.L. Francis I think.[10:24]And there was also a, they used a Chief Accountant and I think Lock..., Mr. Lockhead was the Controller of Finance. And I typed this dreaded thing, which was a double foolscap page thing, and we had these old Remington typewriters[…]
[…]ra operator.LH: Still at Ealing.WR: Still at Ealing. And it was about the third RCA – the third model that they had made – we seemed to have used car headlamps for the exciter lamp and burn them at a much higher ampage than one should do so they blew quite often. And it was so bloody primitive. You […]
[…] arrival we then had joining us Pat Hillyard who was head of Light Entertainment in Radio and they brought him […]
[…]and he's the General Secretary of BECTU. He was the General Secretary BECTU, and is now the joint general secretary. Gerry Morrissey:No. I'm the head of BECTU, the Head of BECTU. Yeah. Yeah. RL: 0:23 Well, let's get [clear] actually, so Gerry is the head of BECTU within the Pros[…]
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Yah.
Right. Well the official biography will have to go into[??] all there[??-8:15].
Unearth them somewhere along the line.
We’ve jumped ahead, we mustn’t do that too much.
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Anne V Coates Roy Fowler
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[…]y ten years after they had been engaged and he went to LorettoSchool as a Chaplain. The whole family went through Loretto School, one of my Uncles wasHeadmaster and the Loretto ethic was very deeply embedded in the family. My Father was mildlyclerical during his school period. After that not so much[…]
