[…]ewed by Linda Wood, 20 May 1991, recordist Dave Robson. File 197SIDE 1, TAPE 1LW: Can you say when and where you were born?WT: I was born in 1917, in London, May 1st.LW: Where about in London?WT: Upper Clapton. North London, it was very pretty in those days, it had a village pond which I fell into a[…]
[…] those days, because the money was flowing you see, with five films going and er, I don't know where the finance came from because that was all up in London. But um...I was just trying to think now...Margaret Thomson: Do you remember at all the amount of money that a feature film or a first-feature […]
[…] Luckett, “Travel and Mobility: Femininity and National Identity in Swinging London Films”, in British Cinema, Past and Present, ed. Justine Ashby […]
[…]bsp; Born in London. […]
[…]y isn’t a long time, just as in the war years, the very first part of the war broke out I was in the ambulance service, I had to go and report to the London Ambulance Service, and when I look back on it now I was only there for three months full time, I feel I was in for the whole war, of course I w[…]
[…]well I always wanted to get into the film business and just before I was due to leave school the British Kinemograph Society arranged a course at the London Polytechnic, Regent Street, you know, for kinematography. A two-year course it was, every day. Well I knew no-one in the film business and I'd […]
[…]2And background. Yes. By the way when in which I was actually born in Leicester but the family came from Derbyshire and my father was halfway down to London as around in his business career in textiles. I was born in Leicester when I was three or four. We moved to London some really before. I hardly[…]
[…] haaaing but I'm not used to public speaking in any way. But so the company that owned these Cameo news theaters and other cinemas around London had cinemas outside. But they was not news theatres. They were feature cinemas, and the company was called Cleveringham Rose, and they were ver[…]
[…]s there for several months. It was a case of well, perhaps war isn't so bad. But then my father, who was an insurance official working in the City of London, went to work one day and there was no office there just a pile of rubble. So that he had to find somewhere at least temporarily to to live nea[…]
[…]s there for several months. It was a case of well, perhaps war isn't so bad. But then my father, who was an insurance official working in the City of London, went to work one day and there was no office there just a pile of rubble. So that he had to find somewhere at least temporarily to to live nea[…]
