[…]rd, a lieutenant and I used to be on an ack ack sight at Whitley Bay in my spare time and I was a street fire watcher and I was a voluntary billeting officer when people were being bombed and we used to be on shift during the war either from 9 till 5 days or 5 till 9 nights, alternate weeks. We didn[…]
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[…]ng part in the interview today. So just to start can I ask how your interests in films and photography developed and what were your first experiences of colour photography?BP: Well it all started when a friend of mine had a camera, a movie camera, and I thought this was really interesting and I aske[…]
[…]ion more effectively somewhere else’. And she kept, and she was always looking out for, for jobs and the job came up of a journal editor and research officer in ACTT, so I applied and was kind of [Laughter] interviewed by the entire Executive which was odd, I mean the only thing it really tested, th[…]
[…]ime, looking back on it, and the… the camaraderie of being in the RAF… and I didn’t want to go in at first, and I didn’t… I was regarded as potential officer material, but I didn’t apply for a commission because I didn’t want to be an officer. I objected on principle so much to being called up[…]
[…]R FOR BECTU HISTORY PROJECTMF: I'm a Liverpudlian as you may gather from a problem I have with certain words like fur-her? but otherwise I spent most of my life down in the London area. I think at this stage I would have been influenced in my career by my late father, Leslie Faber - I think it might[…]
