[…] less five years older and he’s an accountant and businessman. DB: So that was for Hotel Management was it? PB-C: That’s right yes. And I remember going round the Savoy, and being shown round the Savoy – my dad had fixed it all, and I was absolutely in awe. But I think something inside me […]
[…] I guess. And we became goat farming. The guy who was running it was a vocal, his name was Carlo mountainy is known as Ching and what you must also remember when I came into the industry sounded only been going for 15 years 15 to 16 years. So all the people I work with were pioneers. And he was a pi[…]
[…] (Re union membership). At BBC I was one of very few ACTT members. I thought ABS was a house union whereas ACTT was real muscle. At Kensington House, Chronicle p[…]
[…]Threadgall 12:20 So we have some the names of some of these people as I suppose, in their own way, they're legends in their own lifetime. I can recall a doorman called Thomas Gardner, who, I think he was here from 1930 to 34 and he was very concerned about the so called Tuppenn[…]
[…]the trainee projectionist did more cleaning than projecting but however I seem to take the job and couldn't wait to take my first changeover. And I remember waiting in great anticipation to be allowed to take a changeover which meant going from one projector to another on the same film because they […]
[…]in it. And I said “well, why don’t you have a new hat?” and he said “no, I’ll mend the hole” so he sewed up the hole in the hat, and (laughs) and I remember we met someone in a pub or a bar once, and er…the guy said (attempts accent) “aren’t you a peanut planter?” because they were doing a peanut sc[…]
[…] to tell you a little bit about him because he was quite a character, certainly in the industry. He had a pretty chequered career before the war. I remember that in my youth we had a couple of cut price cigarette and Sweet shops in Liverpool, in the Parliament Street area and not one that is to be e[…]
[…]family, I lived with them. And they were absolutely wonderful to me virtually like a mother and father. I, then when I was nine years of age, I can remember it was on late June afternoon. We had finished an afternoon matinee at the Sheffield Empire. And I came up to get a breath of air. And remember[…]
