[…]here we spent six years. I don’t know if I said the name of the school in Horsham. It was called Heron’s Ghyll. It was a beautiful school; two lovely headmistresses. But then we went to South Africa, and I went to two schools in South Africa. I went first to a school called Herschel, which is outsid[…]
[…] A.W. Watkins he got an interview with Douglas Shearer ( head of sound at MGM) in 1947 and was offered […]
[…]at learning curve as well. It was just a great experience. Mondays were always terrifying but by Friday you could do the whole thing standing on your head. You know, you start on a Monday morning or Tuesday morning with a blank sheet and produce a programme at six o' clock. And it was live, you know[…]
[…]got into St Paul’s School in London, so it meant going up and down on the train. Which was quite a trek. DB: What ambitions formed in your young head at that time? PB-C: Well it was interesting, because my father was very keen, because after he left the War Office, he joined the Foreign Of[…]
[…]And a few pubs I played in in Canning Town in that area. And then I moved up and got a few gigs and things. I played with Freddie Ba llerini at Maidenhead and a few gigs and a couple of hunt balls and all those kind of things. The kind of work that the top musicians didn't want to do, too much trave[…]
[…]turned the camera upside down and reversed that shot so they appeared to be jumping out of the sea back onto the diving board which rather amused the head master but he said that's not really what I meant when I asked you to take some film.Peter Musgrave: Now you'd moved from Doncaster to Ryde and y[…]
[…]rding school at the age of about...I think...probably ten, which was at [Newenham] in Gloucestershire, which was a very good Prep school, but with co-headmasters - one of whom was an absolute sadist - so much so, that I went to back to beat him up when I was about sixteen, and every time I went back[…]
[…]nd corner, and the lens was lower down on the left hand side. So if you were trying to take a picture at, say, two yards away, well then you kept the head you slightly up and over to the right, to the left the as you looked at it, and you prayed that it was in the middle, and it was nine times out o[…]
[…]sly, in Birmingham, that's very common. Lois Singer 2:07 I had my first real long term permanent job as a secretary to the headmistress of a girl's private school. And when the headmistress retired, and the school closed, I was casting about for what to do next. And that w[…]
[…]arents connected with the entertainment business?DM: No, my father was the Principal of a training college and my mother before her marriage had been headmistress of a big girls’ school. Academics.SC: Ah, academic background. So what got you into ... finally … after your schooling? Did you go to uni[…]
