[…]sted in the BECTU history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The date Tuesday the 16th of Novembe[…]
[…] Cedric would you tell us when and where you were born?C. D. From the very beginning, I was born at Earlsfield with Irish decent.R. F. What, in South London.C. D. Yes. From there to Harrow and from there to Brighton. I haven’t got very clear memories of that.R. F. What was the family background? Wha[…]
[…]y somehow. Then in my recent years- I worked in Dublin before the war. When I came back to England, it was wartime, and there were no Irish actors in London. I did so much work with Irish accents on radio, and it wasn’t (oddly enough) ‘til sometime after that, that I got a lot of Scottish parts, whi[…]
[…]nbsp;specially seeing Housing Problems,Edgar Anstey and Housing Problems was all about that in London and affected mevery profoundly. And when I went to Oxford obviously kept up&nb[…]
[…]lins family, and I used to spend all my spare pocket money going down and queuing up for the pit or the gods at the Theatre Royal, seeing all the pre-London shows. And I had intended trying to go on to university, but it was very difficult at that time because you’d got all the people leaving the fo[…]
[…]hen orthochromatic film was in common use. I mention this ordinary film because Mr. Parkinson... one of his strategies was to photograph landmarks in London, like teashops and monuments and so forth and mark the frame. You would photograph these things, fade out on the lens diaphragm and then you'd […]
[…] in determining employees’ access to space. For example, in three London ‘picture palaces’ designed in 1935 (each of which seated […]
[…] that. Went from there, accidentally, to New York – I think they were meant to come here. They stayed in New York and then they did come to London and respectively had my parents. So sometimes I think I am Russian, but I grew up absolutely being an English child with no foreign languages a[…]
[…]nbsp;Darrol Blake: So, can we begin by saying who you are, where you were born and when?Peter Mullins: Right. My name is Peter Mullins, I was born in London, Holborn, Great Ormond Street Hospital, 15th September 1931.DB: And what sort of family was it? Were they in the business or not?PM: No, I supp[…]
