Jenny Barraclough

[…]red fifty boys and twenty girls so we had alovely time and my best friend was Victoria Glendenning the biographer now and we bothhad, we had gorgeous South African boyfriends call Nick and she had a Nick called NickGove and they were caught kissing outside the hedge (there was a hedge round the girl[…]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]to see the family. Then she decided she would stay in England,2Mary Harvey Tape 1 Side Ashe was a teacher. And she got a job teaching way down in the South West ofCornwall, near Land’s End, and that's where I grew up. I went to the grammar schoolat Penzance and then on to The London College of Secre[…]

Sheila Whitaker

[…]re, when, parents, class, you know, whatever. So you were born.SW: I was born 1936, in Thornton Heath, I think it was.SF: Is that Surrey?It’s sort of south London, yes, on the way to Croydon. It wasn’t necessarily quite so mucha part of London as it is now of course. But in fact, the sort of formati[…]

Graham Smart

[…] then follow it through? good many years So have you got over to Graham.Graham Smart  1:35  When I was born in what was then the borough of Southgate in 1938, the ninth of may 1938. And I lived in Southgate, then for a great many years going to school at a school called Arners? School, whi[…]

Joe Busuttil

[…]    I was a ticket collector at Victoria.  Oh God.  It was awful.  I think I would have been better off trying to rob a bank and doing ten years inside!  I mean, quite honestly, you have got no idea of the railways, I mean, the way they treat the staff. Q […]
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