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[…]on: First, John, when and where were you born?John Turner: I was born in Hampstead actually, yes, I'm a Londoner I'm glad to say. My father was a son of a fairly well to do merchant family but he contracted TB early in his life and died at 33 when I was eight. Because of that, because of his illness[…]

[…]ing. 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, accordi[…]

Side 1Alan Lawson.The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU history project.  Gerry Humphries, sound recordist, dubbing mixer, managing director of Twickenham Film Studios.  Interviewer Alan Lawson.  Recorded on the 21st August 1995.  Side one.Now, first Gerry when a[…]