BECTU History Project - Interview No. 328 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2002-03-02Interview Date: 1994-06-08Interviewer: Rodney GieslerInterviewee: John HogarthTape 1, Side 1 Rodney Giesler : Right, this is an interview with Mr John Hogarth by Rodney Giesler on the 8th June 1994. Ca[…]
[…], the Art Department was reasonably... when Don Ashton was art director, which would now be production designer. And they did have a company of civil engineers in to actually build the bridge, because the bridge was, in fact, I mean, fairly rickety, but it was a real bridge. I mean, it carried a rea[…]
[…] the architect's office. In any case, we almost immediately found ourselves doing nothing but air raid shelters. So that became a reinforced concrete engineer rather than an architect or an apprentice to such and around about that time, for some reason, rather, my mother and probably moved back to S[…]
[…]un was going was cutting of assistance and that I told you this, but if I have stopped me, but john Chris worked on target right through beginning to engineer. And in the end, he knew the whole dub track off by heart. And he could sit down and play the piano, all the music and all the dialogue with […]
[…]s.Sidney Cole: Ah.Carmen Dillon: And he went on being to do with railways all his life.Sidney Cole: He was in that great tradition of British railway engineers.Carmen Dillon: Yes.Sidney Cole: Yes.Carmen Dillon: And so - he was all right. And then, when the two children were born, then they came back[…]
[…] thought I was really learning something here, but you put meone of those spacers, oh, well it’s so boring now.Yes, yes, yes.Well, what else did your engineers used to make? They made the splicers, did...?They used to make most of our printing machine, all the rollers.Oh they did?Yes.They made that […]
