Mary Harvey (Welford)

[…]ries, in Grosvenor Place, where I worked very hard and went out in the big world. And my first real job was with a Harley Street Consultant.Can you remember what you were paid?Oh yes, it was a big sum, two pounds, ten shillings a week, it, that was because I was highly qualified.Which, what year was[…]

Harry Manley

[…]en he visited the Ritz cinema in Birkenhead; he had no thoughts of a career in cinema; still great queues outside the cinema in the early-1950s; HM remembers watching the Queen’s coronation at a neighbour’s house; his family got their first TV in 1954; HM remembers watching the first night of colour[…]

Graham Smart

[…]ational films that time and the first film I worked on was a film called Stonehenge, which subsequently went to schools were sold to schools. And I remember holding a photo floods up, trying to make the model look lifelike with the sun moving around, so I had to move it around in the way that the su[…]

Donald Wilson

[…]nd, it was a living. And he had to make a living. I mean, you know, what were the practices in those days? And so I suppose it was right. But I can remember sitting in the theatre one day one morning that he was there, when Mike with Microsoft, and I was Microsoft, a personal assistant. At that time[…]

Wendy Toye

[…]tried to do, but I was so interested in everything. I think that I was very musical and that helped and I was always making up little dances. And I remember going in to the bedroom in the morning saying I've made up a dance. They always had stories and it must have been terribly boring to my poor mu[…]
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