Henry Seward

[…]ould you like to tell us what your father did? It's always interesting how people came into the business for theHenry Seward  0:56  for the London general omnibus company, really, yes,Roy Fowler  1:00  as what he was,Speaker 1  1:03  a unit adjuster. He was one of the l[…]

Cyril Crowhurst

[…]         In point of fact I was born in 1906 and the birth place was down in Deptford right over that part of London.  Later on we moved up to an area where I was for a long time - that was in Crofton(?) Park, that is near Catford and Crofton Park, Onrow,[…]

Alf Cooper

[…]tection.That‟s right.I took Stan Clarke because...He was a light-heavyweight boxer.He was a black man who used to be in charge of the boxing teams on London Airport. We knew the, who this bloke Stan Clarke had beaten in the Army , the various people, because he was well steeped in the boxing world, […]

BEHP Bulletin no 3 Nov

[…] received is from Matthew Rosenberg of the Oral History of London's Projectionists project . He runs an educational charity called […]

MEO, ANN BECTU copy

[…] but she was the appointments officer of the University of London and I happened to discover that they had bought […]

Harry Coventry

[…]he interview with Harry. Harry, can you tell us where and when you were born? Harry Coventry  0:34  Yeah, I was born in East London, in the East London maternity hospital in Milan in Commercial Road in London in 1936 March 15, it was a fairly strange start, and my parents ha[…]

Graham Hartstone

[…]I was not too keen. My other interests at the time,through my family, largely were amateur theatricals. My uncle and aunt ran a musical society North London Musical Society. And I used to get involved, there doing lighting, to begin with just doing a spotlights follow for follow spots from the back […]

Nigel Wolland

[…]nyway, I think he wanted to get shot at there. Sonny asked me if I was interested in taking it over, which I, which I did. And that was the old South London branch of neck, as I said was was run by Joe quick, who was the chief at the ABC in Kingston. And then Unfortunately, he died. And then the Sou[…]
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