[…]ringing up to put his bets on with my father he happened to mention that dear old Bill Haggett who ran the XXX department at BIP, always armed with a hammer, never saw Bill without a hammer, was looking for a clapper boy. So I said this is for me.So I went down and met the guy who used to run the st[…]
[…]at night, or you did the very early one. And I used to take the train from Kew, where I was still living, change, did I change? I think at Hammersmith to the Olympia line and got off for Kensington High Street. There were all these little swings and roundabouts. I think I used to have to […]
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[…]y of the Marie Celeste. She joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service during WWII and subsequently returned to the film industry, working for Rank and Hammer studios among others. Her final film was One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (1975). SUMMARY: This interview, conducted by Alan Lawson and Sid Cole[…]
[…] work, and she recalls her husband’s experience, particularly working for Hammer. Gick talks in detail about the production of films […]
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