[…]ned the meteorological office, first off. I’d always had an interest in the weather and weather forecasting so I got a job as an assistant scientific officer with the Met Office and was posted to their headquarters in Bracknell, as it was then, and I found myself in the department that dealt with wi[…]
[…]he was a musical comedian and he - he er - got his first break during the First World War. He was in the First World War; he was badly injured in one of the battles of the Somme and er - I’ve got this photograph from which - black humour the photograph of him in the First World War with three other […]
[…]I don't know how you did it! I couldn't find a bloody thing! I was terrified. So I shot down to the arrivals and I got hold of quite a pretty customs officer, a girl, and I said, "Listen, you're never going to believe this but I am the managing director of Sam Freight and I don't know a bloody thing[…]
[…]alled Clem Bending. And he was a local history teacher when he first started with Hugh subsequently subsequently he went on to become the visual aids officer for Middlesex. But that was a marvellous combination, because Clem Bending had intro to school teachers, whether they were history, geography,[…]
[…]and was probably the last film I worked on there. I was called up and I went into the artillery and was sent to a War Office selection board to be an officer and then I contracted meningitis. In the meantime, just before that, the brother I hero-worshipped, Felix, was killed. And so I was er - laid […]
[…]illet. And the name of the family that I went to I was just by arbitrary been one week, we lined up at the station to get allocated houses. The petty officer would say, right to have you and I had a chap I'd met dress recently, and we said, okay, and we got on the thing and they dumped us outside a […]
