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We often heard Mom and Dad discussing her antics while Uncle Jack was away at War. Mom's plan was that...
Our headquarters was Drury Lane, and after my audition as a pianist I was sent a letter enclosing travel...
It was a dry clear night and, as I lived on a tram route that took me almost to the door of...
Every town and village had a hall where dancing could take place. We had some large dance bands in some of...
Andé and her dancing partner Walter Laird helped entertain people at dancing shows, touring the...
We went to the three cinemas in town to see every film we could, 'White Christmas', 'For Me and...
Joan Holloway served in the Folkestone Report and Control centre, underneath the Town Hall where the...
This just happened to be our tank driver, Charley Bailey from Keithley, Yorkshire, who was called...
And then far to the rear of the staid old Opera House, from the topmost tier of boxes, an uncouth officer...
The radio was all-important especially ‘Children's Hour’ and ‘Toy-town’ and...
The Bureau acted as day and night link by phone and teleprinter between the Department in Evesham and the...
The famous broadcasts by Winston Churchill and King George VI, the news, children's programmes, and...
Strange as it seems now, my mother's favourite opera was playing, Cavaleria Rusticana, Mascagni's...
At the end of 1944 Beryl Andrews was 19 and was pursuing her career as an actress at the 'Theatre...
One of the first things my Grandpa was to get involved with in Calcutta was one of India's main...
We all have memories of past events and interesting happenings in our lifetime; some of my more vivid...
Then one evening an officer representing the Royal Navy's entertainment unit went to see one of Uncle...
Nat Peck played trombone in the Glenn Miller orchestra during 1944 and 1945. Glenn had gone ahead a week...
Apparently the BBC outside broadcast truck was in Germany at the end of the war, and my father was there in...
"Well for some reason you're off to Ireland to learn to drive a truck and then to the London...
On arrival his mother immediately informed us there was a rumour that the Glen Miller Orchestra might be...
Early in the 40s, Mother, myself and Ken's girlfriend Doris, all went to London to broadcast messages...
Our flight coincided with the last fateful flight of Major Glen Miller, the renowned American band leader,...
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