[…]tudios and I'll show you what a terrible life it is. So I persuaded my father was a real working farmer to take minutes to take a day off and come to London and travel out to Pinewood Studios and this was in late 1942 early 43. And.SPEAKER: M5So this was in fact John Monk was it who.SPEAKER: M2John […]
[…]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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…]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[…]
[…]rs but really I know very little about your early life. When were you born for instance, and where?Charles Cooper: Well I was born June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this would have been about 1893 and they were about twenty-two years of age and […]
[…]lacesSpeaker 3  14:26  was very successful to her and as a result of it, the railway board authorized Midland. LMS rail. LMS Yes, LMS rail, London, Scottish Railway. This one, the one there, London. Scottish Railway Board also authorized money to be spent on the production of a number of f[…]
[…]ording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, the date Monday[…]
[…]And I tried and I was absolutely hopeless. And so after two years there, I didn’t really like living out in Erith, and I wanted to come back to London, because of Betty, and because I wanted to be in London.  A job came up at Pathé News, and I went to Pathé in Wardour Street as a Newsreel[…]
[…]d our family being known as socialists and as Jews, made me decide to emigrate. By that time, my sister had married an English doctor, and she was in London, which made it easier for me to enter Britain. It was very difficult in those days, the Depression had hit Britain too, and they tried to keep […]
[…]dear. Oh, a person called Jean something who was the daughter of a doctor in Harpenden. We got moved out to Harpenden because the place was bombed in London. I used to have to go out to Harpenden from London. I eventually moved to Harpenden when the bombing ceased. [laughter] Then came back. Anyway,[…]
