Earliest memory of Glasgow? I am 84 now but I still remember the sound of the bombs dropping on the night of the Clydebank Blitz, March 13, 1941. My sister Alice was born that night. The ambulance came to take my mother to Rottenrow Maternity Hospital. Favourite cinema? The first picture house I went to was the St James Paramount on Stirling Road, in Townhead. The locals called it ‘the buggy’…. My favourite was the Carlton. One or two of us would pay to get in, whilst the rest would skip in through the back door. We often got caught and received a clip on the ear before being ejected.
Published:
7:30 AM February 17, 2021
Foz in the shop window. A Hospital Radio Ipswich outside broadcast from the Debenhams department store.
- Credit: Mark Ward
Fire! Fire! It was a bit like that famous scene out of Fawlty Towers, only this particular fire was for real. The one I m referring to broke out only yards from the studio and record library at Hospital Radio Ipswich and frightened the living daylights out of all us on duty that evening.
Panic soon set in as we realised the only way to safety was out through the studio window. We quickly locked the record library door, the presenter on air at the time, Ginger Ray Pittock, put on an LP and one by one we clambered out of the studio into the cold night air.
Published:
7:30 AM February 17, 2021
Foz in the shop window. A Hospital Radio Ipswich outside broadcast from the Debenhams department store.
- Credit: Mark Ward
Fire! Fire! It was a bit like that famous scene out of Fawlty Towers, only this particular fire was for real. The one I m referring to broke out only yards from the studio and record library at Hospital Radio Ipswich and frightened the living daylights out of all us on duty that evening.
Panic soon set in as we realised the only way to safety was out through the studio window. We quickly locked the record library door, the presenter on air at the time, Ginger Ray Pittock, put on an LP and one by one we clambered out of the studio into the cold night air.