John Box

NB This is a resume only.John Box (JB)Production DesignerBECTU No.463Interviewer: Rodney Gielsler (RG)Date 09/12/19993 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:09:30 Introductions; born 1920 in England but moved to Ceylon; father couldn’t get a decent job after WWI so he worked in a number of remote areas of […]

Mike Hodges

[…]me when you were born and a bit about your family background. Mike Hodges  0:26  Right I was born 1932. And I was born in Bristol. My father worked for W. D. and H. O. Wills the tobacco company. He started there as a young man and ended there as an old man. I mean, he, his whole life […]

Peggy Hyde-Chambers (nee Rignold)

BECTU History ProjectInterview no: 357Interviewee: Peggy Hyde-Chambers Interviewer: Alan LawsonNo of tapes 1 Duration: 1:09:58COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of interview materi[…]

Maurice Askew

BECTU History Project - Interview No. 294 [Copyright BECTU]Transcription Date: 2004-03-15Interview Date: 1972Interviewer: Jim ShieldsInterviewee: Maurice AskewTape 1, Side 1 Jim Shields: This is a recording made in 1972 at the Gate recording theatre at Elstree, of Maurice Askew, who was th[…]

Carmen Dillon

[…]ful.Sidney Cole: Well you're like me in the sense that my first job - your first job was in films, which is what you wanted to do, and worked a whole lifetime, yes.Carmen Dillon: Yes. And there was one other who got into film, she was at Ealing wasn't she, that woman? Very nice pleasant person.Sidne[…]

E E (Dave) Davies

Dave Davies (DD)Laboratories – Production Controller (Technicolor)BECTU No. 230Interviewers: Alan Lawson (AL) and Syd Wilson (SW)Date 27/11/19912 Tapes Side 100:00:00 – 00:03:00 Introductions; born in South Wales, Troed-Y-Rhiw (foot of the hill), 1921; grammar school until 16; moved to West Dra[…]

Ena Baga

[…] year.EB: I had a write up in the cinema organ society book last year, because I’ve done more really than 60 years in the business, which is quite an achievement, I hope.SC: 1925 your first job was it?EB: It was Southend, I was playing when I was 14 there, I was playing in Church, my Father was a ch[…]
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