{"id":6800,"date":"2016-02-10T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T22:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2016-02-10T23:07:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T22:07:37","slug":"leslie-croker-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/leslie-croker-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Croker: 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Croker came to work in the Chemistry Department of Imperial College in 1926 as a lab boy. In 1949 he was made a Laboratory Superintendent for the Physical and Inorganic chemical laboratories and later in 1956 for the entire Department of Chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>He was greatly involved in the training of technicians at Imperial College (and in London in general) and talks about this in the video.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wmjYa3s7-9s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw February 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Croker came to work in the Chemistry Department of Imperial College in 1926 as a lab boy. 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