[…]member, although she was such a remote figure in a way, and I never dared speak to her as a little girl sitting demurely, in her drawing room in London. I never asked questions in those days, because we were brought up to be silent and all that. I do remember her saying in her house in London o[…]
[…]en, parents, class, you know, whatever. So you were born.SW: I was born 1936, in Thornton Heath, I think it was.SF: Is that Surrey?It’s sort of south London, yes, on the way to Croydon. It wasn’t necessarily quite so mucha part of London as it is now of course. But in fact, the sort of formative yea[…]
[…]n the Monday, on the Friday a personal who was assistant dubbing mixer at ABPC called Hugh Strain had left ABPC to open up Warwick Dubbing Theatre in London and the Sound Chief at ABPC Tony Lumpkin was now looking for an effects mixer for the theatre. He heard as the grapevine goes very quickl[…]
[…]arton on tennis with Charles on the Charles hassy was gutters of design gutters of gold. That is a gold Yes. Which is about a young girl who comes to London and and is caught up in prostitution. Got it. It was a nice little studio. The dubbing was good. I can't remember who was dubbing there. But th[…]
[…] the start of the second AL mentions technical issues with the first interview)01/04/1987Side 100:00:00 – 00:10:00 Introductions; born in Marylebone, London, 1902; left the council school at 14 during the war; worked at a factory making hand grenades, then moved to Napier’s motor cars in Acton, spli[…]
[…]ful little dairy called the Brockhurst dairy. So my earliest times were being bathed in a tin bath, at the top of this little Brockhurst dairy on the London Road, now a tattoo parlour, and all the milk groundsmen, when my mum remembered, all the milk groundsman whistling as they came through. And me[…]
[…]tion for being relatively doing me violence, totally deserved. [laughter] And when I was 16, I ran away from the Christian brothers and came to London, and I've been here ever since. RL: 2:25 Oh, that's fascinating. You ran away. GM: Yes. RL: Because- I thought that w[…]
[…]e, I think it was the first film here. Was probably the jazz singer, but it was, I would have thought, probably two years after it was first shown in London. Derek Threadgall 22:15 So the other jazz singer was the first sound, yeah, for most first cinemas at the time, but […]
[…]I was never very good at. I don’t think I did anything very brilliant, but I ended up being Corporal Harris. Just at the end of the war when I was in London, I used to go to the overseas club dancing on Thursday nights with my friends. You stood around and you got picked up by whoever there was arou[…]
