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GETTING TO KNOW YOU (reproduced from the Hertfordshire Mercury December 7th 2007)
Name: John Barber
Age:Just collected my bus pass
Where are you from? Folly Island, Hertford.
Job Hertford Town Centre Manager
Hobbies Writing a follow up to my first novel -
FAVOURITES
Film I have two favourite films. The Terminator and the original Goodbye Mr Chips with Robert Donat and Greer Garson. The Terminator had great special effects and had a big Impact at the time it came out.
Book Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome and The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne. I like the Jerome K Jerome novel because of it's understated British humour..
Food Any curry; hotter the better.
TV programme Spooks
Song I like the entire Bat out of Hell album by Meatloaf.
Claim to Fame Whilst I was researching an article a few years ago I needed some
information about an old music hall memory act called Leslie Welch. I contacted Bob
Monkhouse through his agent. One Saturday afternoon the phone rang and it was Bob
calling from his holiday home in the Bahamas. He stayed on the phone to me for half an
hour and gave me all the information I needed.
What famous person would you like to be stuck on a desert island with.
Becky Mantin the ITV weather girl on the basis that if I was stuck on a
desert island I'd prefer to be there with an attractive woman for company.
VIEWS ON HERTFORD
What does it need A cinema
What would you change I prefer it as it is.
Favourite pub/bar/restaurant The Old Barge on Folly Island, the Black Horse in West Street and the White Horse in Castle Street.
Favourite place Folly Island
Where do you like to shop Waitrose, Hertford
Best thing After doing this job for seven years I would have to say the people of Hertford.
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