[…]a city office as an office boy. I won't tell you how many stamps I stole. During that time I used to take the Boy Scout, a little magazine, you may remember - and in it I saw an advertisement one day with a handsome young man in naval uniform with a ball of the earth, with his foot on the ball, the […]
[…]nnor going when it came to oneSpeaker 1  31:41  thing that surprises me, yet still, about Ken Roberts is that no one suggested he's made an honorary member.Speaker 2  31:51  Oh, yes, but there's a reason for that. That's because he has ambitions of standing profits. Yeah, but let[…]
[…] you'd been around the laboratories in the past...Technicolor for many years. Anyway, that's his history, but he's been a longstanding, very valuable member of the industry. And I went to work with him when he was running a little radio and electrical shop, as a very young man...which he didn't do f[…]
[…]ographs? 00:06:03​ADOLPH:​Where? In, that’s in China. ​Q:​Ah, yes, right. So, we’ll come to that. So, you’re in South Africa when? Do you remember the year? 00:06:12​ADOLPH:​Yes, 1914, you see. I went there, I got there in June and [???] the 1914 war started, and I, I had to come back[…]
[…]ity. My mother jumped at that and I was pushed off into this job which I absolutely loathed. I sat there in the office not knowing what to do and I remember my first day, and I was sitting in this office and they said if the phone rings answer it. So after a few minutes the phone rang and a voice sa[…]
[…]sp; He didn't play any sort of an active part, let's say in, in my life, apart from providing very generously, which he always did. I can only remember him doing some drawings or something like that once when he happened to be home at tea time. So there was, there was no close association. My f[…]
[…]herry trees outside the front door. We would have to go round in a parade and salute this ridiculous tree. I thought he was crazy. The thing I remember about those years most was, because it was in the papers and in the magazines there was a very great deal about Hitler and the rise of the Nazi[…]
[…]re only six when it finished for goodness sake weren’t you?I, I, I know. I tell you I wasn’t a war baby but the aftermath of the war is what I remember.Yes.Probably made me become a very left wing socialist because I still think the Poppy Day is the biggest disgrace to this nation, there should[…]
