[…]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[…]
[…]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 […]
[…]le used to treat women used to send me round the bend. [0:20:00 189] I remember coming back from a meeting once and it was quite late about midnight. Bob was in bed and I opened this tax thing and I sort ofread it all the way through and after I‟d sort of looked at all the questions and the answers […]
[…]cause I worked seven days a week and I had got blown about a bit in Normandy. I think a combination of overwork, Bells whisky I should think about 10 Bob[Ten shillings = 50 pence] a bottle, 60 cigarettes a day[Side 2, 08:41]DMW: and general fatigue, I mean to get this bloody thing on the air - I had[…]
[…]was getting nothing,Unknown Speaker 8:52 nothing at all. No,Speaker 3 8:56 sorry, Alan. And then after three months, I got 15 Bob a week, and that went up to 30 Bob after another three months. So after a year, I think I was getting 25 Bob or something. You know, I was living […]
[…]ote in a glass frame with 'Walter always pays' written as a sort of caption on it. And evidently, Walter Ford at some stage must have borrowed thirty bob off Mick for something and it must have worried Mick [LAUGHTER]. So Walter instead of paying him back actually had the thing framed and given to M[…]
[…]enly, by this time my father had now become a street book maker and he had a gentleman who used to bet with him, his name was, I'm not sure if it was Bob, but something West, were turned out to be the master painter at BIP, and he was also a distant relative of one of my distant relatives, and sudde[…]
[…]ere a hidden camera? Well, not exactly ahead, there was a man in charge of the of the of the camera department of the loading room and his name was Rabobank. But the crews were assigned in another office down what we call the Polish corridor, where the the big word were Victor piers was one of the p[…]
