[…]uch as that have ceased to exist, haven't they?Joan Kemp-Welch: Yes, because you see, they would book up, these people would book up for a year ahead. And you would go and they would look after you like a mother. There was a wonderful woman called Vina in Edinburgh and she - Peter stayed with m[…]
[…] 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[…]
[…]rding school at the age of about...I think...probably ten, which was at [Newenham] in Gloucestershire, which was a very good Prep school, but with co-headmasters - one of whom was an absolute sadist - so much so, that I went to back to beat him up when I was about sixteen, and every time I went back[…]
[…]nvolved in them. My opportunity came when - I was a member of the boy scouts, and there was an opportunity for me to do something about that when the head of our local scouts for some reason was approached by a film company for some extras for a boy scout film they planned to make called Boy Scouts […]
[…] there was still a sort of mark of a person's head. And this was the room in which Jessie had […]
[…] go to university’. This was a blow because I would have been the first member of either family to have gone to university. My father went to see the headmaster, whose name was ‘Splinter’ Woods – his name was Woods, and ‘Splinter’ because he could smash a cane over your, your bottom..&nbs[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]you know, where he's saying, you know, money is just a story. It's just that we believe it. I remember about 20 years ago having an argument with the head of the Bank of Santander saying we could decide anything with money or, and and he was truly horrified. But it's just a story. And so you can hav[…]
[…]And somehow again, by fluke I think I got through I got to a grammar school. Quite a famous the Royal Grammar School of High Wycombe, which is run by headmaster is a model on a, on a private boarding school, I think he even had a few borders, and he had all these ridiculous sort of traditions of hou[…]
