Alan Lawson

[…]ur Graham  Arthur Graham: Where and when were you born?Alan Lawson: I was born in Gidea Park, a suburb of Romford in July 1912, we moved to London 3 years later.Arthur Graham: Whereabouts?Alan Lawson: Hampstead Garden Suburb where I more or less lived ever since.Arthur Graham: What kind of[…]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]ng by Greenline [bus]. Well it was alright coming up in the morning, but in the evening, I was fairly down the line, the Greenline started in central London, Oxford Circus or something, and particularly on a Friday night or if I left early, and it [the frequency] was every half hour, the buses just […]

Dallas Bower

[…], sound recordist, film editor, drama producer.  Dallas, when and where were you born?Dallas Bower  00:19Kensington Hall Gardens, London 1907.Alan Lawson  00:25Now what kind of schooling did you have?Dallas Bower  00:29First of all Barr Kindergarten, which was[…]

Vernon Sewell

[…]Laboratory. Kay's did work for other people as well.Roy Fowler: Where were Kay's situated? Where they then on Soho Square?Vernon Sewell: In London, Finsbury?Roy Fowler: Finsbury, that's right, yes Finsbury Square. So you had to come into see your rushes? Or were they brought back to t[…]

Karel Reisz

[…]remember it well, of course.Karel Reisz: 14.25It was a quite unpretentious documentary about an evening in a North London jazz club and it made a bit of a splash. And it made a splash because at that time,realy main[…]

Sarah Erulkar (de Normanville)

[…]rsity here at Cambridge. And so he was asked whether he'd like to go and help set up a shipping company, Scindia Steamship Company, a branch of it in London RG: Was that the Indian colonial government, I mean they were anxious presumably to get rid of him weren't they at that time? Well, no, it was […]

Bernard Vorhaus

[…]!" And that was my introduction to England! Anyway - I still think it's the most beautiful countryside in the world. I um...Sidney Cole: You made for London then, did you?Bernard Vorhaus: Yes. And I was offered a job as a production assistant for a company - British Talking Pictures - it was - it wa[…]

Barrie Merritt

[…]that his father obviously reckoned he was an ordinary guys farther than not in your business. But he recognised his son had talent. And he came up to London with Patrick savage way back, and somehow must have fought you know, got Marino cartoon studios from somewhere and went to George and George to[…]
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