[…]Kent coalfield. Because coal – if you wish me to expand on that I will… Well, coal had been discovered in Kent when they were looking to build a Channel Tunnel. I think at that time we were on speaking terms with France, and we were trying to get a road connection or a rail connection to travel[…]
[…]e.CC : An editor. Then I did start to direct, the first picture was a propaganda picture of course, called Those In Peril, where we rushed around the Channel in high speed motorboats, boats which were used for picking up crashed airmen and so on. It’s a horrifying thing to say but it was very exciti[…]
[…]tart with you telling us a little bit about your background, family, where you were born, etc. And then we can move into Mary Orrom  0:48  Well, one remembers very little about one's background. But I was born in Sheffield in June 1926. My father had just got a job as lectur[…]
[…]te a bit of location work off the bill. And it was really a very interesting because we were in and out of submarines. Can you imagine those old film channels, massive great q channels going in and out but treated like torpedoes. And we didn't know actually whether we were going to have any oil left[…]
[…]y rather nice. Yes.Noreen Ackland  24:38  And we had the chap who eventually went with Ready John, his father had some cutting rooms in our channel, known not Roger Terrell. No, he was an assistant and then became an editor at Pinewood named John You follow her this block of cutting rooms […]
BECTU History Project - Interview No. 25[Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2003-01-24Interview Date: 1987-10-28Interviewers: Stephen PeetInterviewee: Philip LeacockTape 1, Side 1Stephen Peet: Ah, here we are, 28th October 1987. Name of interviewee, Philip Leacock, interviewed by Stephen Peet. The […]
[…]en typed for him, I mean I did a double role and to that extent they did quite well. But very soon after I arrived - I started there on October 6th 1941 and soon after I arrived, about six months, or maybe even less than that, we were ordered a cost of living bonus...Jim Connock : That's right, yes,[…]
