[…]g up to the passage over the river. And number 12, although we left I left there before I was old enough to remember because we left there when I was two and a half or something like that. So I don't remember a thing about except that I know from conversations afterwards that the shop tower the Wate[…]
SIDE 1 INTERVIEWER: The date is the 6th of July, 1993. This [is] interview number two-seven-one, with Charles Smith. Right. Okay, when—when were you born, and what sort of childhood did you have, and what your parents were. CHARLES SMITH: Well, I was born in 1920, May, in Rugby in Warwicks[…]
[…]o,Unknown Speaker 13:03 you know, the kids were welcome in the nets from as soon as they could hold a bat. And they used to run. They ran two Wednesday teams, two Saturday teams, two Sunday teams, cricket, the Cofield Cricket Club,Unknown Speaker 13:18 and everything possible[…]
[…] end of the summer holidays and it laid me flat and I was in the sanatorium for the whole - most of the summer holidays, and that knocked me flat for two years - and so, I won't bore you with the details. So that was the end of my school for...John Legard: That's a long time.Pat Jackson: It's a long[…]
[…]rgarten, which was the Froebel Institute, hard by Kensington Hall Gardens; Willingdon School, Putney, which enjoyed the distinction of two very distinguished pupils as they became in later life, Liddell Hart, the military historian, and Maurice Bowra no less, warden of Wadham, Ox[…]
[…] of the summer holidays, and that knocked me flat for two years - and so, I won't bore you with […]
[…] of the summer holidays, and that knocked me flat for two years - and so, I won't bore you with […]
[…]p of a hat. I've even worked on films. I worked on a Jesse Matthew films when I think we started in the morning at eight or 830 and went right around two or three o'clock in the morning with no I mean, you've got you've got some sort of extra money so much for now, but it was very small, like five s[…]
[…] So that was a course designed to lead I'd taken inter BSc It was called at school. It was rather like a levels I suppose. And when I went with those two years to college in London, this was a BSc course. And I have to say, I don't say with any pride, obviously, that I got so interested in involved […]
[…]1 of us went on a daylight raid. Thought is a good idea by ministry because the the sorry, the Americans were doing it successfully and out of the 11 two got back. My wing commander was one armed with the other one. And, again, most of the crew dead This time I had a year in hospital. And it came ou[…]
