Geoff Labram

[…] when the war broke out. So last few years of my schooling before I then went on to what was then the North Hampton engineering college, which was in London, and is now part of the City University.Interviewer  2:42  What  course Did you take there, then,Geoff Labram  2:44  e[…]

Charles Bennett

[…] in 1927 - by that time I was acting in London and doing rather well too - but in 1927 […]

Maurice Elvey

[…]hat reason. Not because you wanted to get away from the restraint of going to school. I was actually working when I was 9 years old in the streets of London. I expect you've all heard the Flanagan and Allen song, "Underneath the Arches." Well, I know those arches; they're actually between Northumber[…]

Reginald (Reggie) Beck

[…] of monks and that was alright till the end of the day when the work had finished on location I managed to put everybody in two coaches going back to London from in Kent but I forgot to tell the driver where to go. Balcon who was eventually waiting in London to see us all back, and they did turn up […]

Charles Bennett

[…]e plays during that time. I must have been writing at night most of the time. Anyway, I wrote three plays, and in 1927 - by that time I was acting in London and doing rather well too - but in 1927 I had my first play produced, a play called 'The Return', which got wonderful reviews, but never made a[…]

Cedric Dawe

[…] 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[…]

Ron Goodwin

[…]peaker  0:36  and were you born into a musical family?Speaker 2  0:39  No, no, my dad was a policeman, and he was actually in the London Metropolitan Police, and in those days they didn't have a ministry of defense police force, so the Met used to do all the government establishm[…]

Adam Dawson

[…]ll Secretary and then the President of the Film Society.  So as a president, you have to select film.  Most of them came from the London Film Society. Roy Fowler  4:54  You went up when?  What year? Adam Dawson  4:56  I […]

Roy Fowler

[…]of your childhood history?Roy Fowler:Right well there’s not a great bit of interest to tell about that.  Born March 10, 1927, born in North London in a place called Bush Hill Park on Village Road. Education was very ordinary I went through the state schools, a lot of it was during the[…]
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