Videos tagged with world cup final
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WORLD CUP FINAL 1966
In 1966 Derek Cattani was working as an FA photographer and had already spent a lot of time taking photos of the England team training in the run-up to the tournament. Here he recalls the excitement of being present as a photographer at the World Cup final - and shows a now rather famous photo...
HOLDING THE WORLD CUP 1966
Derek Cattani started working as the FA’s film librarian and then alongside England manager Alf Ramsey editing films of England’s performances and their opponents to help them develop tactics in the three years leading up to 1966. Here he remembers the day the Jules Rimet trophy arrived at the FA’s old office in Lancaster Gate and he got to hold it.
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Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm
Flight of FANY!
During WW2 Elizabeth Ward was a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) working for SOE. By September 1944 she was stationed in Bari, Italy but a back injury meant she'd have to return to Brit
My Grandpa, My Hero: Memories of Monte Cassino
Melissa recalls stories told to her by her Grandpa who served during WWII in the Battle of Monte Cassino, how he won the prestigious Medal of Valor and the heart rendering decision of choosing between
Earliest memory of World's Oldest man
Henry William Allingham was born on 6th June 1896 and, at the time he gave this interview, was a supercentenarian, World War I veteran and at the age of 113 years and 13 days, the oldest living man
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Operation Mincemeat (aka The Man Who Never Was)
Operation Mincemeat was a top secret WW2 deception operation designed to fool the Germans as to where an Allied invasion in the Mediterranean would take place. Patricia Davies worked as a secreta
ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI Part 2
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he talks about being in Nagasaki in 19
ONBOARD HMS COVENTRY JUST BEFORE ATTACK during Falklands War
After HMS Sheffield was hit during the Falklands War, morale onboard HMS Coventry was down...but only for a bit! Coventry and her crew started preparing for further attacks. Here David Wood who serve
LAST TRAIN OUT OF PRAGUE 1939
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines is from Prague. She came to England in 1939 as one of nearly 700 Jewish children saved from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker who earned the nickname 'Britain
Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm
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