McGuire, Jack

Made:
2003-02-04 in Interviewee's home

Recording not to be made available until 01.01.2009. management trainee; assistant manager; deputy manager; manager; description of kitchen life; rigourous training, food handling, early starts; supplies; guests arrived and departed by train; station refreshment rooms; comparison of differing rail company methods; training exchange with Swiss; on train snack meals, special trains, festival of Britain; food rationing; nationalisation; competition from local restaurants; regular moves around the group; tricks of the trade; celebrities, other guests; royal train; football connections; food supply; standards of various countris; emergencies with staffing; union arguements; Kosher licence; TV and sporting awards; advantages of modern design; butchery department experiment; new staffing levels; comments on layout and function of different hotels in chain; live-in life, effect on children; d.o.b. 1920-06-26, railway work 1937-1942, Linerick; Manchester; Sale; Gleneagles; Manchester Central station; Switzerland; Basle and Montreux; Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool; Queens Hotel Birmingham; Charing Cross Hotel; Caledonian Hotel, Liverpool; St Pancras; St Enoch Hotel, Glasgow; Switzerland; Queens Hotel, Leeds; North British Hotel, Edinburgh; London Midland & Scottish (LMS); Southern Region (SR); British Transport Hotels (BTH); Turnberry; Newcastle United; Glasgow Rangers;

Details

Category:
Oral Histories
Collection:
National Archive of Railway Oral History
Object Number:
NAROH2003-17
Materials:
plastic (unidentified)
Measurements:
: 2.8346 x 3.1496 x .315 in.; 72 x 80 x 8 mm
type:
oral history recording
credit:
Friends of the National Railway Museum