[…] of all the all the engineering and manufacturing and all that sort of thing. And there was electrical research products early, which I was recording manager for Europe. So I had to go to the various countries and and see about it. But by the time I was over here in 1929 we were out of Stanley […]
[…]me apparent that it wasn't my thing, university, so my Dad knew a guy at the bank who knew of somebody at the BBC, John Byres, who was the Operations Manager at the BBC at the time so I went through and had a chat to John Byres and, fortunately, because I was interested in the subject, I had been re[…]
[…]? I: Well, what led you to leave? R: Why leave STV? Oh, STV wasn't STV anymore. I probably could have stayed. I remember talking to my Line Manager and I'd thought about it at the previous, every so often, every five or six years there was a new way ahead. You used to call it a new way ahe[…]
[…]r or a Painter to come and be interviewed because they had a full complement of Joiners, Scenic Joiners and a full complement of Scenic Painters, the Construction Manager, Jack Stevenson, who was lovely, and Phil, who used to walk about with a broom and take the lines to the bookies at lunchtime! An[…]
[…] equipped. And I took the building courses, I did brick work, I did plumbing, electrics ,wood work, as well as the technical drawing and the building construction subjects. And then before I, in the last year that I was there, all that had started to peel away and they stopped doing building constru[…]
[…]So you had a little repartee from time to time? Yes. I mean there were certain things I knew he couldn’t pronounce and certain grammatical constructions that he didn’t like and I used to put them in deliberately, and you see he was a professional and he could see that it was quite funny a[…]
[…]e reason, you've hit upon one with a strange history. School Ties was a pet subject of Stanley Jaffe and Stanley had had enormous sets built, the set construction must have been so expensive and so unnecessary for which I suggest there was a very good but very inexperienced art director, no designer[…]
[…]ff with rocks nesting, I remember in the spring, we did to build a platform thatPaddy Carey 31:35 we built a pile on hide from our gopher construction thing, and set it up there and waited for them to get used to it. And then I went off. But one of the more comfortable highs. I've had, i[…]
[…]o sons. He died in 1950, falling 30 feet from a cliff on the Greek island of Paul Ross. He was 43. His father was an architect, specialising in the reconstruction of Tudor, and Elizabethan houses with original materials. His mother was an accomplished artist, an excellent business person, running a […]
[…]e for that picture. And I remember, you must get in touch with Mick. I remember the next day Hal Mason, who was this student, Emerick, was the studio manager. The only time I could ever leave the floor was at lunchtime, and I'd go into the men's room, of course, and while in the hell basin, sort of […]
