phil munga Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 here's a pic from a family photo album distant relative Fred Slingsby delivers one of his gliders for Prince Philip ( from what i can remember ) Xmass present from the Queen , here's Fred with Prince Philip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie370 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 There's nothing better for business than the Royal seal of approval - just ask the boss of Harrods............. I wonder which glider Phil got from Santa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Op-Ack Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Wrote (and had published) a book on the terms and abbreviations used in the Royal Artillery. Best bit for me was the brilliant review I got from the Regimental Magazine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 Re-enacting for 2 documentarys; http://www.theamericansonhellshighway.com/ http://www.ww2-reflections.com/wpblog/wordpress/news/ And last week done the filming for the same company about US troops in the Bulge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robrffr Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I worked at Sopwell House in 96, upset some guy called Paul Merson cos I had no idea who he was!!! Not a football fan you see!! lol!! I appeared on a men and motors programe about the Speedfreak Ball at Santa Pod, had a couple of bikes featured in Back Street Heros and 100% Biker magazines: And I wrote a few articles for Britchopper bike magazine as well. Thats about it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arm carp Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 i was on tonight with trevor macdonald many years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosrec Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 dolly out emmerdale made me a cup of tea when i towed her blokes car back to her house met a guy once who who recokoned he knew the guy who made Buddy Holly famous (the pilot of his plane) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosrec Posted May 5, 2010 Share Posted May 5, 2010 Seen Sooty and Sweep in the nude towed Mathew Corbit in when his brand new Volvo estate and big caravan cooked its torque converter on M62 Next job i did that day was tow an old transit to Bradford with members of a group called Paper Lace they were No1 at the timewith Billy Dont Be a Hero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 i was on tonight with trevor macdonald many years ago Which reminds me. In 1995 I was working for (with, but a tax dodge meant that technically it was for) the Bank of England at their New Change offices. My office window looked across the street at St Paul's Cathedral on the other side (see Google Maps) literally a few yards away. My consultancy ran out (and I went to firefight another project ay Abbey National) on Friday, 8 May. We had a damn good farewell pub-crawl - I mean lunch, rolled back into the offices, I cleared my desk, said my farewells and headed off home mid-afternoon. I said goodbye to the doorman in his pink frock coat: I had only been there three months, but my distinctive Pitmatic accent and my readiness to be cordial to infrastructure people (barmaids, waiters, etc) meant that I got a sincere farewell from him, I stepped back out through the front door into the blistering hot, bright sunshine for the last time ... to find that in the half hour I'd been back in the office, somebody had erected a pair of WW2 searchlights either side of the door like a ceremonial arch of swords at a wedding. I felt touched. I sobered up on the train home and that evening I sat and watched News at Ten, fronted by Sir Trevor (or Trevor, as he was then). And finally ... I hadn't occurred to me that today was the 50th anniversary of Victory in Europe and specially for the occasion ITN had recreated the iconic pair of searchlights creating a V for victory over St Paul's to mark the occasion. And I thought they'd done it all for me ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamac Posted May 6, 2010 Share Posted May 6, 2010 Not much really. Who have you met, who have you sat next to? /Have you helped someone famous get out of trouble? Answer: My husband (ajmac) He was interviewed on BBC Look North lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlienFTM Posted May 7, 2010 Share Posted May 7, 2010 Seen Sooty and Sweep in the nude towed Mathew Corbit in when his brand new Volvo estate and big caravan cooked its torque converter on M62 Next job i did that day was tow an old transit to Bradford with members of a group called Paper Lace they were No1 at the timewith Billy Dont Be a Hero I worked at a Working Men's club in Sunderland before I joined up. One Sunday the committee were in a total and utter flat spin because the previous night the act they'd booked weeks ago for tonight won Opportunity Knocks. Paper Lace. Standing room only. As the young lad working the grill bar physically isolated from the rest of the club's infrastructure (with a very nice woman called Cecilia whose husband cringed when acts sang the eponimous song by Simon & Garfunkel cos all the blokes leared at her ... "making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom"), I spent the evening walking back and forth across the Concert room right under the stage humping kegs of lager across to the grill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 The Queen at the opening of an exhibit. George Lazenby (James Bond) in Birmingham. Caroline Munro (james Bond) Watford Mr Bronson (from Grange Hill) He also played Hitler in Indiana Jones 3rd film. Dave Prowse (Darth Vader) + a few others.....I used to buy and sell film memorabilia and these were at events. Leslie Grantham was also at one selling his auto for a fiver. Wonder if he gets a taxi these days. George McDonald Fraser and Douglas Reeman (aka Alexander Kent) at book signings. Bernard Cornwall on QE2 I also knocked Sir Clive Sinclair into the street when i was reading an A-Z in London. Joe Ekins, the man who took out three Tiger Tanks in Normandy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diver99 Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Ooh just remembered, Mark Williams he of the fast show was on the ferry when went to Normandy in June. My wife took a picture of his really bad trainers and socks and put them on facebook....which was nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 we once met jack at war & peace show and gave him choccie biscuits ! :-| Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy_espie Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Well my Claim to fame was when i was in the Royal Corps of Signals, i was also in the Pipes and Drums and my claim to fame back in 20 was phenominal, i started of and got picked to play for the N.Ireland Army Cadet Rugby Team, i then went on in june that year right through to August that year to do a pipeband practise for the whole month just to do The Royal Military Tattoo 2000 which was a special tattoo celebrating 1000 years of history also have the video of it which is brilliant, then when that had finished i stayed in london to do more practise for Her Magesty the late Queen Mother 100th birthday and was crowned the youngest lead drummer being at the Queen Mothers 100th Birthday i have also played the drum alongside the Queens Personal Piper, Pipe Major Jim Stout, who is the Pipe Major of the Highlanders, i've also played for other dignitries such as Tony Blair, all the Lords and Ladies, Past and Present Members of parliment and various other dignitries, also met Barbara Windsor at the Queen Mothers 100th Birthday too and i think that is about it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharky Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 thru work i have met david hasselhof (ferried him about in our BV206), scot mills (radio 1 dj), Alex James the bassist from blur ,mungo jerry, N'dubz(chav rap group) and by far the best suzie Perry:D my god she is gorgeous and really nice to go with it, just a shame the other bloke jason from the gadget show was a proper idiot,least we got to shoot him . years ago when i lived on a narrow boat the boat moored next to us in the marina was owned by david suchet and he was such a nice bloke often had a drink with him in the summer. Iain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Over the past few years some friends and me participated in the making of 3 Documentarys about the US troops in Northern Europe. We did some re-enacting. The first Docu was redone because initially it lacked re-enactors. During the filming a photographer (Jacques Reboul) took photo's. Between filming I was photographed from the side and that photo was used on 1 side of a challenge coin!! Those who know me might even recognise me. Here a photo of both sides of the coin. (Re-posting of this photo was granted with permission of owner) http://www.livingbattlefield.com/battlefield-tours-on-dvd.html http://www.livingbattlefield.com/ww2-photos.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joris Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Nice Olaf!! I made it on the cover of this months CMV!! You can see my head between the I and the C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exocet R.I.P. Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Well,I have heard it said that LLoyd George knew My Father.............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 my claim to fame i once wrestled a shark, off the coast of belize and i've met keith chegwin. both should be avoided if possible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spood Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I know Jack Beckett, apparently a big celeb at the Bond premier last night. :whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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