Well the Lime Street area had cinemas in it and we used to go the Forum. Then there was another one called the Palais De Lux which had a great stainless steel sculpture on the outside of it of...

Ma Boyles was where the businessmen went. Where would that be? Up Chapel Street or Water Street I think (plots on a map). That was a lovely pub and that had lovely food and sandwiches and it w...

The White Star is where we used to drink which is in Button Street and that was my local; it’s funny how you hang around the same places (plots the White Star on a map). The White Star’s a lov...

This was being built when I was a student, this is the Catholic Cathedral and this is interesting because this house (shows a photograph to the camera), this man carried on living here for abo...

The Cathedral was only built about up to the tower at the time, in 1960. This top end was only finished twenty or thirty years later. The Cathedral’s been built in the twentieth century, gothic.

We used to go to a particular pub in Wood Street and they had a little bar and it was called The Steering Wheel Bar. There were pictures of racing cars and the guy that owned it at the time wa...

What Sewills used to do was, their reps used to go on board the ships and they would bring all the old or storm damaged compasses, boat compasses, pressure gauges, charts and they would replac...

We all had a work bench each and a vice etc. A lot of work was done with brass and soldering in them days, everything was made. Lathe work you would have to know all your sizes because everyth...

The man who used to paint the compass cards, his name was Eric Brassie and he was actually a fine art artist who’d paint the compass cards which came from Mica which was mined in Africa, belie...

This is the sort of instrument that they made. This is the sextant which is absolutely marvellous and used by ships across the world. Until you’ve actually sailed somewhere you don’t realise h...