[…]icrowave dish which would follow us to wherever the news was and try and park somewhere local and put the crane up so that they could see the Theatre Royal tower and when you think about the challenge of that, that's pretty challenging! To want to do that was pretty good! I: Yeah! [72:30]R[…]
[…] in Taranto and then desperately tried tofind the Argyll Regiment I was aiming for, the Eighth Argylls but alas was posted as Second inCommand to the Royal West Kent Regiment which was next door to them because they had got noMajors and the Argylls had too many Majors.Taylor/Peet: What rank were you[…]
[…] years. We had an RSM called Derek Craig who theoretically ran the unit well I mean clearly we had a captain, what was his name? Captain Boyle in the Royal Scots but everyone just buggered off and did their own thing. We had German POWs as servants as body servants looking after our billets. &n[…]
[…]; Starting off at the Bombay High School, where I think I was probably the only European which was kind of interesting because it was the time of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny and the time of all the riots before partition and it was quite dangerous, we were in buses which were turned over and burnt […]
[…]recording is vested in the BECTU  history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The date Tuesday the […]
[…]nk Hitch liked his dry humour.RF: Was Dolphin Square terribly smart in the ‘30s?VG: Yes, it was. It was one of the new blocks. In the beginning Mount Royal was a very smart place, as rooms, more people lived there. A lot of people lived there, Will Hay lived there for a long time, I lived there. The[…]
[…]ding was about to be pulled down so we moved into a new darkroom in an old part of STV, which was knocked down as well, which was next to the Theatre Royal. And fortunately for me, the Film Editing section was next door to this darkroom and I had more interest in Film Editing than processing someone[…]
[…]bsp;of London Manor Park. And. At that time. My father who had been in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War had gone back into the Royal Air&n[…]
[…]lready, I was probably 18 when my father died. I was already in the army. And, in fact, I was already commissioned. I went into a regiment called the royal Horse Guards. Now that was a mistake, and it wasn't a very good soldier, but my brother went into it, and sort of, I never questioned it, you kn[…]
[…]r! I: I've just, I've put this on the record on my own piece - I actually was the first that was dispatched from Cowcaddens and sent to Stirling Royal and even by six o' clock I was doing phone reports. It was that much of a technical disaster. R: I also remember being up there in the morn[…]
