Hugh Stewart

[…]d: Double-barrelled?Hugh Stewart: I know he wasn't on it with me but he was there in a similar capacity - Robert Hamer was one.John Legard: Yes, yes, Bob Hamer yes.Hugh Stewart: And Robert and I of course made a film together. There's a name that you would - it was well known in films at that time, […]

Barbara K Emary

[…]ed, corrected RA, page 21 missing, handwritten transcript done by RA when checkingInterview with Barbara Emary, in her home, 5th July 1988Interviewer Bob AllenSIDE 1, TAPE 1BA : Perhaps you could tell us when you first ca me into the film industry, how you got interested in filmmaking, what lead you[…]

Joan Kemp

[…] shillings. Roy Fowler: Right, OK. Could one survive on thirty bob a week? Joan Kemp-Welch: Well, I was living at […]

Hugh Stewart

[…] capacity - Robert Hamer was one. John Legard: Yes, yes, Bob Hamer yes. Hugh Stewart: And Robert and I of […]

Roy Fowler

[…]d then when the blacklist came in they fired him and Yul took over as director and it was probably the most effective show of its kind in those days. Bob Stevens, Robert Stevens I don't think you'd know him but Rob, Bob was a very good director marvellous with the camera the extraordinary things he […]

Kitty Marshall (Hermges)

[…]r the style of art that was used there and actually you got much more interesting artwork suddenly comingwith the war in certain places like, oh Bob... oh dear, I know it so well and I can’tremember his name again. Can we switch off for a moment while I just think because I know that perfectly […]

Joe McGrath

[…] ever have learnt at any school, because you know we were working six days a week - filming two days - editing, two days - in the studio one day with Bob Monkhouse - playing back the stuff we had shot while Bob improvised a commentary and we had Sunday off - and then we started again00:09:49And so -[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]time I went in it, oh they, they put it down as industrial misconduct though I’d hadnever drawn a penny piece of, of, mmDole?Dole. Which was only ten bob a week anyway. And of course, I had to sign on and, mm, they...And they wouldn’t pay you because it was industrial...First of all they didn’t know[…]

Harry Fowler

[…]nother little anecdote -  we’d say “you got any sheets, lavatory cleaner” that sort of thing, and it was the custom to buy a pair of sheets: two bob [Two shillings, i.e. 10p] or something. My granny bought those sheets and they were never ever opened. In fact, the day she was killed – she was k[…]
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