[…]gate. And as I walked down the hill from the Monument Station, the very first morning, in my lovely gear, a fish porter who had a pile of fish on his head...you know they used to carry them on these corked hats in those days. He walked right up behind me and just tipped the thing so that all the jui[…]
[…] very bad winter. And I was also one of the largest babies that had ever been born on the Isle of Wight. I was 14 and a half pounds. I believe it was heading towards a British record. I was educated on the Isle of Wight in a pretty average sort of way, until I was 13, and then, in fact, my parents m[…]
[…]nd corner, and the lens was lower down on the left hand side. So if you were trying to take a picture at, say, two yards away, well then you kept the head you slightly up and over to the right, to the left the as you looked at it, and you prayed that it was in the middle, and it was nine times out o[…]
[…] there was still a sort of mark of a person's head. And this was the room in which Jessie had […]
[…] of his paying for it, though the salary of the head of a provincial university was pretty low, but there […]
[…] fish porter who had a pile of fish on his head...you know they used to carry them on these corked […]
[…]her a right one! But now, that would be, presumably, a bit misinterpreted as being - but Sam was great! I: OK. So, I've just got to start with a head thing. So, this is an interview with Judy Ritchie for the Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group's Oral History project. The interviewer is Janet M[…]
[…]of seasickness.Yes.HARRY COURCHA 4I was always rather poor physically.Yes.And, mm, we crept through Gibraltar quietly and eventually realised we were heading for Italy.Mm.And we landed at Naples.And what year was this, can you remember?1944.Ah, yes.I was called up in Forty-three.Yes.I was there 1944[…]
[…] to take the picture two yards away, you kept the head slightly up and over to the left as you […]
