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[…] 27, 2008 02:09 PM BIOGRAPHY: Charles Cooper was born in London in 1910, the son of Russian Jewish emigrants who […]

[…]e National Film and Television School. He was one of the first year's intake at the School and when he was there, Centre Point had just been built in London with the Harry Hines' building which was empty. It had been empty, well, it had been built two or three years previously but had never been occ[…]

[…] give him a ring, but he had forgotten me. I met him through union business later on. The cinema was still following me, because I was then posted to London District Signal Squadron. It was my first qualified posting. And that was on an old anti-aircraft site on Hampstead Heath. I was excused boots […]

[…]reading the News when I got to Dover. I allowed I think 12 hours for the journey, and having looked at the map I saw that it was a straight line from London to Dover, and that would be obviously quite quick. It wasn’t at all. Because what I did not know, having never been there, was that there were […]

[…]t didn't really know what it was. One's life really revolved around nanny, the garden, ones toys and of course the occasions when we were taken up to London to a pantomime.  Because in addition, this was the other extraordinary thing, in addition to Henden Manor and subsequently Upper Parrick, […]

[…]rs but really I know very little about your early life. When were you born for instance, and where?Charles Cooper: Well I was born June 5th, 1910, in London. My parents actually came over from Russia, from the Ukraine - this would have been about 1893 and they were about twenty-two years of age and […]

[…]f Span was related to us - do I need to go into all this?Q Well, it is interesting background.2A And a few years ago - I mean I was already living in London - and my sister, by accident, who went to Glasgow - a member of the Span family had a tobacconist shop in Glasgow, by sister looked in and she […]

[…]nt at the time. Now that's not me actually in the end. parked it at that. I was sent off for a week in 1956 or 57. I can't remember the every year in London at Earls Court they had a week's radio and television show which was for manufacturers to exhibit all their latest electronics and the RAF are […]

[…] 16:55  Yes, itUnknown Speaker  16:56  was the post war slump.Unknown Speaker  16:58  That's the question time that the London Palladium conducted they were both owned by the same management, the London Palladium and the Brighton theatre most most nights and so the Pall[…]

[…] isn't it? So I went to Decca records, on the London Embankment, you know, and I met Mr Somes-Charlton[?]. Well […]