[…] me as a baby. I was shipped off to Welwyn Garden City, my grandparents, his mother and father. And I was brought up at Welwyn for quite some time. I don't know whether you know Welwyn, it's a beautiful place.Alan Lawson: Yes, yes, yes.David Robson: The main Cambridge line runs through the centre, s[…]
[…] on to...Alan Lawson: Yes we do, yes, yes.David Prosser: (Chuckles). Oh, to um, er, a college called Imperial College of Science and Technology in London University, but it regarded itself as separate from London University...it was based in South Ken., and, er, I was at the Royal College of Science[…]
[…]sp;1:57  was very interesting, very interesting becauseUnknown Speaker  2:03  the old man, pop was very old fashioned. Of course, he'd done his apprenticeship round about the early 1900sUnknown Speaker  2:12  Do you know who he did it with?Unknown Speaker  2:14  I […]
[…]how called Me and My Girl which has been produced many times since, and it put Lambeth Walk on the map. Lambeth Walk was a very famous- typical of London – market streets, that were open until Saturday night at midnight, when eventually butcher’s shops and fish shops auctioned off, which was when mo[…]
[…]ood school really, I look back on it and I think it was a very good school, but I hated it! [Chuckles.]Alan Lawson: Why was that?Leonard Harris: Oh I don't know, I didn't like the discipline you see, I've never liked discipline really. And I think their methods of teaching were all wrong, it was all[…]
[…]vested in the AC t t History Project. Petty carry caramon interview, john Taylor, with Alan Lawson, recorded on the fourth Of March 1991. side one is done by the staff, with you to be born.Start with where you live, where you live, where you live, we went to school.Paddy Carey  0:46  When […]
[…]Maurice Carter, art director, interviewed by Roy FowlerSIDE ONE, TAPE ONERoy Fowler: When and where were you bornMaurice Carter: I was born in the London, in 1913, and I had the normal sort ofschooling, Gladstone, and I eventually went to an art school when I was 15.Roy Fowler: That was always part […]
[…], it’s a nice story: There were five of us who ended up in a school called Deansfield Road which is on the Rochester Way which is the A 2 Dover to London [road]. Our house was right on the bloody thing. And when they opened it up we didn’t get any sleep from about 1935 onwards. But further up the ro[…]
[…]ere was a man there named Savage and he interviewed me, and he seemed to think that I'd got all the - what they wanted for thirty-two and sixpence, I don't know - but he seemed to think I'd got everything! And so I was engaged and I started and I was terribly thrilled. I started the next day, which […]
[…]ry. We did all sorts of wonderful things. He taught chemistry and analysis of things was by sight, taste and smell. Perhaps it was smell and taste, I don't know. I remember licking bits of arsenic. Anyway he introduced us to The Last Laugh which was a famous German film. Norman Swallow: You've […]
