Charlotte Jennings

[…]rview, Alan Lawson Well was was not, you know, when, when and where were you born?Charlotte Jennings  0:39   I was born in Blackheath, London in August of 1935.Alan Lawson  0:47  Now,did you have any schooling before you were evacuated?Charlotte Jennings  0:53  Not[…]

Geoff Hermges

[…]hen you were born, where you were born? Something about your early life and your family background? Yes,Speaker 3  0:49  certainly. Born in London, in Finchley, not very far from here, 1919. Brought up in the country in Bucks, until going to public school, which was in Hampstead, again, no[…]

John Wiles

[…] then the other thing was you also hard out occasionally, so sent off to Denham, which was quite quite a thing. In those days, I had to live in South London and I had to be at Denham and Harper state. Wartime was not that easy. So I was hired out to work on part again of the Canterbury Tales, which […]

Joe Mendoza

[…] you were born? Yes, I'll go on to describe how you came to be in the film industry.Joe Mendoza  0:22   So I was born 921 in southeast London.event, what date 29th of January, when the query and my family were sort of we in trade, we had a whole chain of fashion in Photoshop, confecti[…]

Denis Forman

[…] Public School, is that right, or you know it waskind of slightly, it wasn't like George Watsons or…?Denis Forman: Well quite a lot of boys came from London.Taylor/Peet: It was kind of a more English Public School than a Scottish school.Denis Forman: More boys came from Scotland than England but the[…]

Peggy Gick

[…] moved around Scotland, from Invergordon to Aberdeen to Edinburgh, and we came back to Weymouth for a bit when he was travelling, and then came up to London. First of all we lived down in Kent and went to school there. I went to art school...I left school at the age of fifteen...John Legard: In Kent[…]

Lusia Krakowska (Mrs Arendt)

[…] so it was quite soon afterLK: Yes, and they needed somebody who spoke English and PolishRF: So you, as it were, slipped into the Polish community in London?LK: I cannot say that because I have never in all these years ... I've got very, very few Polish friends so have adopted England and most […]

Peter Suschitzky

[…]wasn’t true, it looked much worse.PF: Well, it’s those additional generations, isn’t it, from the… when you are making those show prints which toured London compared to the national distribution prints. We’ve heard from other interviewees that there was a difference between those.PS: Yes, a big diff[…]

Interview

[…]rhaps ask you more about that and your involvement there. When did you start with them and how did you come to join them? A Well, the, the, er - in - London Transport had been talking about developing a film unit and I discussed with er - with er - a chap called Hutchinson there, who was their publi[…]

Virginia McKenna

[…]wer: Joyce RobinsonRecorded on the 9th January 2002. TAPE ONE SIDE ONEJR: Virginia McKenna, when and where were you born?VM: Well, I was born in London on the 7th of June, 1931. I don't remember the name of the hospital or nursing home but my mother – I found a piece of paper, actually, the oth[…]
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