Interviewer 0:00 This is an interview with Mike Aldridge and is the property of the History Project for BECTU. The date today is the 15th of September 1997. And, Mike,can I ask you where and when you were born?Michael Aldridge 0:20 I was born in 1941 in East London and […]
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