[…]And I tried and I was absolutely hopeless. And so after two years there, I didn’t really like living out in Erith, and I wanted to come back to London, because of Betty, and because I wanted to be in London. A job came up at Pathé News, and I went to Pathé in Wardour Street as a Newsreel[…]
[…] I mean my sister I until pretty late on. In 1962 I think it was when we were living in, not my sister and I, when I was married and living in London for a couple of years and one night there was a knock on the front door and when I opened the door there was an oldish man there who turned out[…]
[…]ording is vested in the BECTU History Project. Our subject today is John Ammonds - A M M O N D S. Television producer director, ex-BBC TV, Thames TV, London Weekend Television, now retired. The interviewer record this is John P Hamilton, member of the BECTU History Project committee, the date Monday[…]
[…]sted in the BECTU history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The date Tuesday the 16th of Novembe[…]
[…]e, I used to go to that. And I remember Stanley Baxter used to say to me years and years later when our paths crossed and I asked him to come down to London when I first went into television and he said "Quite honestly, we can't afford to come to London to the West End. We make so much money up ther[…]
[…] 1 RF: When and where were you born? RW B: London in 1916 in Hornsey. RF: Did your family have […]
[…]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[…]
[…][laughter] Yes. And then of course because of the broadcasting, the success of it, whether he applied or was asked I don’t know, but we moved to London from Coventry when he became Musical Director for the BBC Variety Orchestra.How long were you in Coventry?DS: I can’t remember. I think it[…]
[…] years. And my great great grandfather came to this country beginning of a century. And actually, my forefathers were mostly conductors. They came to London and conducted, I think, Ferdinand Hillier at 1890 something at Alberto, and then he went to Birmingham. And they all loved this country. They k[…]
[…]n Berkeley Square,These Foolish Things and Goodnight Vienna. But he had become Eric unquestionably a drunk and his wife ran a club in the West End of London and he was always in this club slagging off people in the BBC as much as he could.And the story goes that when Beadle was made director of tele[…]
