[…] for the Navy. Because the Navy didn't do it's own store...it did it's own catering, it didn't do it's own supplies or fuel or anything. That was all done by the civil service, called the Naval Store Department, and my father was in it and finally got to the point when he was head of it. But his wor[…]
[…]tory Project - Interview No. 58 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-09-20Interview Date: 1988-10-11Interviewer: Alan LawsonInterviewee: Gordon McCallumTape 1, Side 1 Alan Lawson : Now, Mac...when were you born?Gordon McCallum : May 26th 1919.Alan Lawson : And where was that?Gordon Mc[…]
[…] much and it was very pleasant to work with him. Don Sharpe, Harry Miller was a joy to work with. Win […]
[…]uns pointing out, it really did look something. In fact, as one knows the the German just practically jumped over the thing when the time came. And I don't think they were held up for 10 minutes, but the I got some, I got some fascinating material there, both both movie but also stills. I took a lot[…]
[…]n for being relatively doing me violence, totally deserved. [laughter] And when I was 16, I ran away from the Christian brothers and came to London, and I've been here ever since. RL: 2:25 Oh, that's fascinating. You ran away. GM: Yes. RL: Because- I thought that was […]
[…]TT History Project. Nancy Thomas, television producer/director. Interviewer Norman Swallow. Recorded on the twenty-fifth of January 1991.Well, if you don’t mind, you know, when and where were you born?I was born in India in 1918.Where?I was born in a little place called Ranikhet, partly because, you[…]
[…] Recorded on the twenty-fifth of January 1991. Well, if you don’t mind, you know, when and where were you born? […]
[…]Alan Lawson, recorded on 24 November 1993SIDE 1, TAPE 1Alan Lawson: When and where were you born?Freddie Francis: I was born in the wilds of North London, Barnesbury, north London on December 22nd, 1917 and on the night of the 22nd December 1917, when I was born, there was a Zeppelin raid over Londo[…]
[…] about your family life, where you were born, schooling and how you came into the film industry. AY: Well I was born in the East end of London, my father was a watch maker, watch repairer and my mother was a put upon housewife. Looking back I would say she was a slave. There w[…]
[…]out it a bit I then wrote an article for the union, it was ACT in those days, for the union journal which was called, in fact Sue’s just found a copy Don’t Let The Incinerator Claim Our Golden Age and inviting comments and contributions and an interest, a show of interest from other people. Well, in[…]
