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 […]
[…]rked as war correspondents, like my father and Martin Grayand people like that - they all worked as war correspondents and were consequently living asofficers in the mess. I can remember in France I was a Corporal, despatch rider, the BorderRegiment and I went to Arras, I went through Arras, and I k[…]
[…]rea. So I always remember, I mean this is a very vivid memory in my, in my mind, the, he took me along and they got me an X-ray, the Resident Medical Officer, who was actually Henry Yellowlees who later on becamevery big in the Ministry if Health I think he became, I can’t remember what he wasbut he[…]
[…]was there for some months. And almost as soon as I went back into training I broke an ankle on an obstacle course so I was clearly not very good officer material. And in fact failed miserably and became, I remember a great argument with, I don't like explosions much and someone threw a thunderf[…]
[…] Well, I was born in 1905, in Slough, where my father was a doctor in practice. Er...He, my father became shortly after that the first school medical officer that Sheffield had. Then we moved and lived there until 1914, when we came and lived in London 'cause my father went to the Ministry of Educat[…]
[…]And I sat in this chair and pondered this very deeply, and I wanted to know why. Well, now I know a little more about it.  Mr. Flinn was an officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary. And I've also deduced, but never proved it, that a very dear friend of mine, a great Irish Republican leader […]
Jim Peters - Transcript [Start of Recording] [00:00] I: Scottish Broadcasting Heritage Group. Our interviewee is Jim Peters, I am Tim Amyes. The date is 13 May [2017]. Jim was employed here between 1971 and 2001 and that's really all we need before we move on. The first question I've […]
