[…].It’s still there but I don’t know if it’s still a school. Very near Putney Bridge. Andit looked more like a sort of ministry building and don’t forget it was War time or post War and many of the schools, like many buildings, had been bombed so there was a great shortage of schools so a lo[…]
[…]or, on the 25th November 1989. Well Charles, I've known you a number of years but really I know very little about your early life. When were you born for instance, and where?Charles Cooper: Well I was born June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this […]
[…] fun because we got a lot of students from all over Europe, and I really grew up with a sort of League of Nations, which was fun! I went to Bryanston for one term. The only reason I went to Bryanston was because it was the only school at the time that didn't want people to have taken the 'Common Ent[…]
[…], and brother and I was born there in this house that had been bought by local Quakers, and then my parents rented it because my father was in prison for two and a half years and they virtually were on their beam-ends and so that's where I spent the first four years of my life. The background the hi[…]
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[…]wn as the techniques of driving electric auto. Motives you cannot imagine on the title anything being more boring, but in actual fact, it won a prize BAFTA that year for the best instructional film, or something like that. But it fascinated me because the director was a man called Ken Fairburn. Oh, […]
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[…]gressive in the 1900s and it had quite an intellectual a group of boys, we came from intellectual families mainly . W. H. Auden had been there just before and at that point he hadn't been regarded as respectable. His early poems came up to the school library, I remember someone saying I couldn't tea[…]
[…]ber 1987 Interviewer, Arthur Graham Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: Hampstead Garden Suburb where I more or less lived ever si[…]
[…]ey Burton once who didn't require any changes. He got transmitted on BBC One peak viewing time just after the news. And it was it was nominated for a BAFTA. You know, and there was about 5000 credits on that film, maybe less, you know, it just shows what could be done, which doesn't happen now. And […]
