[…], G-A-L- B- A- double L-Y. My dad was a trade unionist, and not a trade union official, but he worked in Creamery, and he was a member, an active rep for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. And my mother was a publican, but during one of the many recessions we had in Ireland, pubs in vill[…]
[…]the end of 1970 I sort of felt the urge to travel, and I contacted a British motorcycle dealer in Bromley and Ken and asked them if they'd have a job for me, which they said, Yes, we will do we will certainly have a job if you want to come over. So I turned up down on Bromley, all bright eyed and bu[…]
[…]anscription Date: 2002-002-10Interview Date: 1996-11-06Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Cyril PageTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: Right um...First and foremost, when and where were you born?Cyril Page: West Ham.Alan Lawson: West Ham. When?Cyril Page: 15th November, 1920(?)...1920...so I'll be 75 next[…]
[…] (laughs). I couldn't get over it; we will pay you nine pounds a week2 Roy Oxley (1899-?) was a British production designer at the BBC, he won a BAFTA for his work on The Portrait of a Lady in 1969.3 Peter Bax was a production designer at the BBC, he worked on productions includi[…]
[…] my mother's womb. And they made it about a mile south of us. They drew the line and so I'm a British subject by about a mile and a bitWe lived there for about 4 years, and then sadly my father died. My father was a Presbyterian minister there. I hasten to say he was not a member of the Orange order[…]
[…]any people!Alan Lawson : Yes!Gordon McCallum : I came back to England with my parents, who are English, when I was about four, and my schooling, therefore, was in England - that's why they came back, largely. And so my memory of America is pretty slight.Alan Lawson : What schooling did you have?Gord[…]
