Mel Faber

[…] days because they both came from Leeds, though Dad was from Manchester. He got the job as trainee Salesman at Liverpool branch and he won one or two awards for being good at sales - he did the north Wales area - and after that he was promoted to sales manager of the Liverpool branch and in 1948 was[…]

Ron Goodwin

[…]don't need to do that.Speaker 1  0:18  So it's the ordinary sort of interview about your life and careers. I'm sure you've done 100 times before 99 okay. Where were you born?Unknown Speaker  0:34  Plymouth in Devon,Unknown Speaker  0:36  and were you born into a musical[…]

Peter Montagnon

[…]. Side onePeter Montagnon  0:35  engineers also bridge builders.Norman Swallow  0:40  Sorry, yes.Peter Montagnon  0:43  Forget it and start again. Okay. I was born, I think, in Redhill, or in between Redhill and South Croydon somewhere or rather. And my father did date […]

John Hogarth

[…]e a sort of chronology?John Hogarth : Yes. I was born in February 1931 and entered the industry in September of 1946. It's a point of quiet amusement for me that at the end of 1946 the yearly admissions reached their absolute peak in Great Britain, with 1640 million admissions, and immediately upon […]

Harry Courcha

[…]mm, at an early age. I don’t know that I’d everclarified it into anything concrete. Certainly my thinking was sort of academic at a very early age. Unfortunately he died when I was eleven.Oh.[Pause]HARRY COURCHA 1And what was your first job?Mm, well, [Pause] on the report from school at fourteen it […]

Adolph Simon

[…]Pathé Frères? 00:01:09​ADOLPH:​Well when I left school I, I was uh, um liking about the ci-, I liked the cinema [???] but I’ll try to [???], but fortunately one of the, my father’s [coughs] colleague was a re-, relation to the di-, to the director of the, the Pathé factory in Joinville. So, he […]
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