[…]ah. Uh,Speaker 3  7:06  just about that time in history, my mother gave me a letter to deliver to my uncle, and I went over to the hallowed central office of the LMS railway, where there's a very large notice which says silence. And I sat in the waiting room, and my uncle sent for me. I ha[…]
[…]the 21st August 1995. Side one.Now, first Gerry when and where were you born?GH 11.5.1931 in Wales, a place called Llandridod Wells which is in Central Wales. It is now Powis, it was then Radnorshire. I think it sounds better Radnorshire but I don’t think the Welsh would agree.AL W[…]
[…]film work. I'd got no background except these sort of semi-amateurish films. And one of the many people I went to see, who I found was working at the Central Office of Information was Allan Izod, film editor from before the war, who I knew. So I phoned him and I went to see him, and he said well I r[…]
[…] cameraman at St Pancras who shot them coming off the train, then we got into the coaches, then went for a trip round London, then had lunch near The Central Hall, and then went on a boat up to Hampton Court, where they had tea. Then they went window-shopping and then they went back on the train. An[…]
[…]ever, ever missed a changeover but it was always this risky business for the first two changeovers of the day in the winter. And of course you had no central heating in the projection room. It was a very large projection room with a flat roof - lovely, lovely theatre really. Beautiful acoustics. As […]
[…]C, lovely lady, Isabel Davy, who came from a variety background. She was very familiar with booking variety artists and Barry Ford, who's now head of Central, who came from films he'd been in Nicholas, Nicholas Nickleby from films and stage and we really to begin with. I mean, Dear Mr. Drury really […]
[…]hink they did. I know this person did didn't know him and he never had a search for a green card. I don't think I don't think it was then the need to central in America that drove them. I think it was the fact that they knew that's where the money lay. That's where the producers were. It was work an[…]
[…]other one here for my secretary said what do you have to go and see separately given no No, no, you see something worse? What do they call themselves central services? services? Yeah, I said well, I wanted tomorrow. I haven't got time here but departmental stuff I said you've got flats here, put up […]
[…]ling work to do even now he'd got come on to Shepherds Bush. So he called me one day and I phoned me one day and told me there was a job going in the central loader room at Shepherds Bush. Are they interested? So I went out by lunchtime. From the city to Chevron, and I had an interview, and I've got[…]
[…]ose days.Roy Fowler: Yeah.Eddie Dryhurst: Anyway I took it and I spent the first few months in Hollywood doing extra work.Roy Fowler: This was before central casting was it?Eddie Dryhurst: Yes, yes.Roy Fowler: And you say you met the lady at Fox who did the casting?Eddie Dryhurst: Hmm, can't remembe[…]
