[…] it was agreed that we should be paid bathing time etc. Bessie went in to negotiate with Donald and they worked […]
[…]it had survived the cull. Given how effectively Ces stretched out the closure of the other cinemas and then having to deal with all ongoing paperwork etc.etc. it would be late 1983 before he actually took up the position. Ces’s idea of managing a cinema - and here I suggest esteemed former coll[…]
[…]amp room. Alan Falconer was Shop Steward, and he called in Bessie Bond and after lots of discussion it was agreed that we should be paid bathing time etc. Bessie went in to negotiate with Donald and they worked out an Underground Agreement. And we won. We even got a laundry allowance. You weren't gi[…]
[…]s normal private’s way of life, guarding the beaches at Northumberlandand the countryside at Burford, and marching up and down, 30 mileroute marches, etc.After 15 months I saw another newspaper article, not a newspaperarticles, a small item of news that David MacDonald who had directed twoof the fil[…]
[…]ing to be involved in something like that. He wanted to be part of it and hands on. And he really was at the height of his people with the Goon Show, etc. So he didn't have the time to get involved to the extent that he would want to. So he declined. Time, but he wished us all the very best love, pe[…]
[…]ut. So there's only one thing to do. The CEO had me before him and offered me a photographic course. He said Obviously if you are interested in films etc. I realised this. He was very good. But he said we can't go on this way. I said no we can't. And he said I could best I can do in the airforce off[…]