[…]ost impossible to get to a county scholarship. So although I had three University places, I never actually went to university. I went I went into the RAF and signed on for an extra year. Because in today's national service, you you, you've got the job that happened to be needed at the time, so you m[…]
[…]e sound department and the then chief, Red Turtle and I was there until September 1949 when I had to go and do my National Service which I did in the RAF. I went in for 18 months but then I was home on a 72 hour pass and I had been to see a Chelsea Arsenal evening kick off match and I came hom[…]
[…]urprise, I don't know whether it was deliberate. I found myself as six months on deferred service. This was May 1942. We've got to I didn't go in the RAF till December 42. And Charlie at that time was working was living rather at denim. And his wife, who had been in the industry years before had gon[…]
[…] those days. remembers the little boy playing on the biliard room roof. So the first daylight air raid on London was the formation of Gotha aircraft coming over to a big V shaped formation making a funny humming noise. bombing raid, you know, in daylight feed, you know. And our first saw[…]
[…] bad flyer and he knows that I've been in the RAF and I was a good fly in those days […]
[…]tbin. And he said ‘what are you doing in my dustbin?’ So he said ‘dancing sir’. So he said ‘Ah, I don’t want you mucking about with RAF property and he sort of walked away and there was a glimmer of a grin on his face as he walked away, you know. But I always remember that.&n[…]
