[…]special service - special duties - and you can be allowed to wear civilian clothes." That's how I started, about six months before I was demobbed, on London Town as the assistant director, which had that great comedian Sid Field, who was such a wonderful person in himself.Rodney Giesler: And Kay Ken[…]
[…]nbsp;specially seeing Housing Problems,Edgar Anstey and Housing Problems was all about that in London and affected mevery profoundly. And when I went to Oxford obviously kept up&nb[…]
[…]e researched it formally yet.My father had served in the Second World War and afterwards he got the opportunity to study geology at King's College in London, and he then went into industrial minerals engineering and that took him to the north east of England which is where he met my mother and she h[…]
[…]o was filming all around the world for the crew and doing all the publicity shots. And I said “yes, lovely.” So, I met up at London Airport. He brought out his own camera and we loaded it up. Off we go. Usually about a nine o'clock call at his hotel, and I’d h[…]
[…]to secrecy on a radar course. Which that was that was in the early months of 1940. There weren't any radar sets around but I went to a place in North London and started learn the rudiments of radar. Our operation and theory. And again, I say all the time we were sworn to secrecy and there were no se[…]
[…] also being wartime materials were so short and she was always short of money, but not verypractical. So she’d send us in a taxi to the other side of London [laughter], you know, toPhyllis Dalton Page 3buy up old sheets and things like that. And it was quite fun making do in those days. There w[…]
[…]with, can you tell us about your early life – where you were born and who your parents were and where you went to school?Yes, I was born in London, the city of London. My parents were both Cockneys as well as I. I went to school until I was ten locally and then was evacuated to Australia, […]
[…]t. So really, my earliest memories are coming down towards non Tim's when my father was born. And he thought it would be a good idea to get us out of London obviously didn't work out that well, because that was one of the targets there at Walton or near Walton, because they were making aircraft ther[…]
