[…] years. And my great great grandfather came to this country beginning of a century. And actually, my forefathers were mostly conductors. They came to London and conducted, I think, Ferdinand Hillier at 1890 something at Alberto, and then he went to Birmingham. And they all loved this country. They k[…]
[…] “occasional members” (who was also attending Edinburgh University at the time) when Graham encountered him at a civil service meeting he attended in London. Spotting Gordon Brown standing alone at the gathering, he wandered up and introduced himself as one of the team who ran the EUFC while the Cha[…]
[…] I mean my sister I until pretty late on. In 1962 I think it was when we were living in, not my sister and I, when I was married and living in London for a couple of years and one night there was a knock on the front door and when I opened the door there was an oldish man there who turned out[…]
[…]e in what they called those. They were little they were had a little screen here and rewind. Now I stuck it together and then I actually dubbed it in London using boozy in hot desks and some mu sic that I'd recorded on on my tape recorder.SPEAKER: M19Gosh I had an I had a German tape recorder. Was i[…]
[…]k, or, or, do, do little girls still do that today?
I think they do that today a lot. My daughter was very keen on horses; living in the centre of London, here in Chelsea, she didn’t get a lot of chance, but she loves riding. And now living in California she has her own horse. So I think... I thi[…]
[…]f you want to become a journalist, don’t go and become a cub reporter in the provinces or anything: fast track is join a very small niche magazine in London.”Nursing Times or whatever – in my case The Financial World. And that will be a much, much easier stepping stone to try for journalis[…]
[…]y, by what steps I don't know, he became a brewer. And from the earliest time that I remember him, he was head Brewer at Meux's Brewery Limited in in London, which was practically on the site where the British Film Institute later was in in the corner of great Russell Street. And I think this site w[…]
[…]Directed by Roy). Their film production company Charter Film Productions was set up in 1937.5 Vivian Van Damm (1889-1960) ran the Windmill Theatre in London from 1932-1960 CB: And an American singer sang the songs ‘Ain’t she sweet’ and ‘Drifting and Dreaming’ and I danced around in the backgrou[…]
[…] and omits some repetition. DS 2021]Val Guest = VG; Roy Fowler = RFSIDE 1, TAPE 1RF: Let us start with when and where you were born.VG: I was born in London in Maida Vale, a long time ago.RF: Are you going to be more specific than that.VG: I was born 1911. December 11.RF: Did you parents have any co[…]
