Tilly Day

[…]when it rang, it had an eerie sound. And then, after that, they finally said that they had packed up, the liquidators had packed up and it became the London Chairbottle Cane Company, of all things! And I was out of a job, so my Father said, "That will teach you to be educated and learn a proper job![…]

Howard Lanning

[…], will give an intro to himself, introduce yourself.Howard Lanning  1:14  My name is Howard Lanning. I was born in 1932, in the East End of London, and I've been in the film industry as a Film and Sound Editor for more than 50 years.Derek Threadgall  1:35  Then we get into the me[…]

Jim Whittell

[…] name before Paul got involved.  And from the Apollo Cinema in Oxford he then slowly but surely acquired live show theatres across the country – London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, everywhere.00:22:21        And in the course of – not quickly – in the cour[…]

Cornel Lucas

[…]rote a letter to Denham and they responded?CL: I wrote a letter . Writing letters. I wrote a letter to Cecil Beaton the great photographer who was in London at the time and he said come to see me when you are on leave and we will talk. And I remember going to this house in Knightsbridge, Pelham Cres[…]

Gerry Fisher

[…]d Wilson, recorded on the 19th of October 1993. side one first and foremost, when and where were you born?Gerry Fisher  0:44  I was born in London. Now is an odd thing here because I was actually born, I just recently made a copy of my birth certificate person for something. And I was born[…]

Adolph Simon

[…] fabrication, you see.00:02:28​And I was lucky to go through several processes: printing and developing and all that, you see.​And then a job came in London as a foreman to go to work in the lab as well, and there the manager of the London branch there pick me up.00:02:58​He thought probably I was c[…]

John Daly

[…] age of about 16, I got very interested in in films, particularly the spaghetti westerns or Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and I used to go all over London watching those trends because they were made in the 60s, but I only got into them in sort of like early 70s. And wherever I'd get the Evening S[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…]period? It was fantastic. It was pub rock, and punk was starting, and that’s what interested me, and there was this enormous fight in South East London against the National Front, and we were part of that, er, and it was a hell of a political period and there was Lewisham and you know... D[…]

Brian Marshall

[…]art us off with telling us when and where you were born where you went to school.Speaker 2  0:37  I was born in 1930, in Hornsey, and North London, where my both my parents came from from from top and one from Finsbury Park. My mother suffered from ill health, and we moved to near South an[…]

John Turner

[…] TURNER, news cameramanTape 1, Side 1Alan Lawson: First, John, when and where were you born?John Turner: I was born in Hampstead actually, yes, I'm a Londoner I'm glad to say. My father was a son of a fairly well to do merchant family but he contracted TB early in his life and died at 33 when I was […]
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