[…]to secrecy on a radar course. Which that was that was in the early months of 1940. There weren't any radar sets around but I went to a place in North London and started learn the rudiments of radar. Our operation and theory. And again, I say all the time we were sworn to secrecy and there were no se[…]
[…]son Group Headquarters. First of all Reg let me ask you when and where were you born?Reg Sutton: I was born on 24th October 1916 at Stamford Brook in London during an air raid. I believe it was a Zeppelin raid. My father was not present because he was a Captain in the Royal Naval Air Service and he […]
[…]cameras, John Luton. The interview number is eight to nine. The date is the 24th of April 2023. And we're filming at the cinema Museum in Kensington, London, which houses the most remarkable collection of cinema memorabilia collected over the last 70 years by the man sitting opposite me to do. We st[…]
[…]real. Some people talk about the Father, I get very you know, and my brother was in the merchant navy. And then he came home and then he came down to London to work as a civil servant. So it was me and my mother was my family background. And she was completely supportive. All the way through. I was […]
[…]nbsp;Darrol Blake: So, can we begin by saying who you are, where you were born and when?Peter Mullins: Right. My name is Peter Mullins, I was born in London, Holborn, Great Ormond Street Hospital, 15th September 1931.DB: And what sort of family was it? Were they in the business or not?PM: No, I supp[…]
[…]ollocking and sent back. Anyway, Mr Garside, he said "Right! A third time - you're out!" Anyway, at the end of the film, it was called er 'Crime Over London', with Basil Sydney and Margot Grahame, and er...Anyway, Douglas Fairbanks, he gave me a fiver, and I...cor! that was like, ooh, you know, abso[…]
[…]ut unfortunately - here we go again with unions and people’s attitudes - up in Yorkshire the shop said, 'We don’t give a bugger what the shop says in London. There’s no way you’ll show a film on this station made by Yorkshire with London people.' And so I was head of a company which couldn’t ma[…]
[…]ler  0:04  The following recording is copyright by the ACTT history project. It was made on the 26th of October 1987 at 111 Water Street in London. The subject is Ted candy. The interviewer is Roy Fowler, Ted. Can you tell me when and where you were born?Unknown Speaker  0:28  I […]
[…]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[…]
