Videos tagged with INDIA
CHAMPION JOCKEY OF INDIA 1955
At age just 23, Annette was appointed as Matron of the European Hospital in Madras. She took it as a great opportunity to do my horse-riding and ended up as Champion Jockey for 3 years running.
VE DAY AT CHELTENHAM LADIES COLLEGE
Annette had returned to Britain from India and was on her way to an interview at Cheltenham Ladies College when the announcement came that the war in Europe had ended. She joined the celebrations and "it was the first time I had seen 800 white women together".
LIFE ON A TEA PLANTATION IN PRE-INDEPENDENCE INDIA
Annette's Scottish father ran a tea-plantation in India before WW2, and here she describes what life was like, including how the workers were treated, and the logistics of producing and transporting the tea.
FIRST TROOP-SHIP THROUGH SUEZ IN WW2
World War 2 was on, but Fay was determined to have her first child - Penny - back in Britain, so she took a troop-ship which joined a huge convoy from India and braved the U-boats through the Mediterranean to get home.
THE SETTING UP OF ALL-INDIA RADIO
Fay - now 91 - grew up in India before Independence, and talks here and elsewhere about what life was like as a young girl there.
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BOMB EXPLODES ON HMS ANTELOPE Part 2 Falklands War
On May 23rd 1982 Warrant Officer John Phillips and his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott were called to HMS Antelope to defuse two 1,100 pound (500 kg) bombs...when one exploded.... In his e
An eye witness of a communist execution
With Germany out of their way, Tito's communist party came back to power. Rrahim Rexhepi, a World War Two survivor, explains how the Yugoslavian communists executed people that simply refused to obey
CRASH LANDING AT GATWICK AIRPORT during World War Two
Wing Commander Bob Foster was born in 1920. He decided to join the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve in January 1939. He flew a Hurricane fighter in the Battle of Britain but had an unlikely landi
FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORY Seeing a Zeppelin
William Walker was born in 1913 and later went on to serve in the RAF during World War Two. Here he recalls his earliest memory of seeing a German Zeppelin during the First World War.
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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
Wartime spirit and children's games and activities
Alex was born and raised in Hackney, East London. He was about seven years old when the second world war broke out. In the first part of his interview he recalls the games he and his friends from the
Experience in Cold War Germany
Peter discusses military service and being posted to Germany.
Everyday life in the fifties
John grew up in the fifties and tells Alison Nash what life was like when you had to find a shilling for the gas meter, there was no TV, not much radio and you had to make your own entertainment. He r
AFTERMATH OF BRIXTON RIOTS 1981
Alex Wheatle took part in the Brixton Riots of April 1981. He is also an award-winning novelist who wrote East of Acre Lane, published in 2001, which was inspired by the Brixton riots. Here he descr
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