Rodney Giesler

[…] give him a ring, but he had forgotten me. I met him through union business later on. The cinema was still following me, because I was then posted to London District Signal Squadron. It was my first qualified posting. And that was on an old anti-aircraft site on Hampstead Heath. I was excused boots […]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…]if he's getting a bit close but you couldn't with De Bries The man in charge of it. De Bries there was a man called Shatzow it's a J said O W and his London representative was Mr fuzhowasky stuff was he asking and we'd have a lot of trouble with focus with those De Bries there was a ball went throug[…]

Patrick (Paddy) Carey

[…]went to school.Paddy Carey  0:46  When the first school was a bit disasters, I think that was in Dublin. Oh, that's sort of kindergarten in London, which is where I was born. My father was in the civil service. And when he joined the civil service, of course, the Irish civil service was pa[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]t started way back in 19, I suppose 1908. And my father was at a very, very young age at the age of about 23. He was already a very known, well known London photographer. Ronald Neame  1:02  He had studios in Bonn Street. And in South Kensington, he had quite a good commerci[…]

Norman Spencer

[…]thday, I wanted to cinema To graph machine, and all we could think of my parents would think I was buying me one at damages, which was a big store in London. Now, these machines were very crude. And I've soon worked out I mean, they first of all, the first machine I had didn't even have a shutter on[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]d on the 30th of January 1997. Side One.AL: We’re away. Right running.First Vivienne where and where, where and when were you born?I was born in London, I’m probably a Cockney I think in the City of London Hospitalin 1929.And schooling?Yes, I went to a small private school from the age of five […]

Val Guest

[…] 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[…]

Roger Bernard Newbold Smither

[…]95 was when we got the Battle of the Somme inscribed on the Unesco Register: we screened the film at a gala screening in 2006. Actually timed for the London Film Festival rather than the anniversary of the battle, but not far off the anniversary of the centenary of the original screening, with a liv[…]
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