A F (Peter) Birch

[…]Birch : Oh yes, stainless steel, it was lethal. Blattnerphone.Alan Lawson : Yes it was Blattner Studios. It was Leslie Fuller Studios. It was British National studios.Peter Birch : Yes I remember Blattnerphone, I never used it.Alan Lawson : No I don't think anybody ever did - I've read it in that bo[…]

Teddy Darvas

[…]g this time that I applied for British citizenship, because during the war you couldn't apply, that was suspended, unless you were doing something of national importance that you needed it. Now after the war there was such a backlog there was a system of priorities. If you had been in the forces was[…]

Stephen Peet

[…]e are half memories. [00:17:43] So this was one year leading up to the war. I remember various other things like my brother had been in the International Brigade. They arrived back at Victoria Station. I didn't see them, it was a day that I knew or heard they were coming back and I understand h[…]

Peter Dimmock

[…]mbledon, we did a lot of things Haringey because the Haringey Arena was still up there; we did the Horse of the Year Show from there; we did the International show from White City, we really made show jumping.  There was a fellow called Mike Ansell who was boss of the British Horse Society and […]

Gordon Hales

[…]lly that but I was told this a comparatively few years ago at the 50th anniversary. History of the Film Society an event that was set of about at the National Film theatre and Ipswich itself. But I got the local principal singer? put a slide on the screen, appealing for people to support the formati[…]

Oswald (Ossie) Morris

[…] four hours of training at night during the week and used for hours about the time. Weekends on point duty or patrol work or something as part of the national effort in 1938. Between 38 and 39 was a very bad time for me because there simply wasn't any film being made you might get the day's work. Ag[…]

Ernest Marsh

[…]bsp;3:38  between two cinema, yes, it was. It was a two, I think it was a 2000 foot can, because it had the adverts, the local adverts, the National adverts, and the pathway news. And the two cinemas being both owned by kinemas East, Anglia shared it, and so the programs were timed, so it […]

John Daly

[…], please contact BEHP Secretary,  sue.malden@btinternet.com.Unknown Speaker  0:00  Introduction really? Yeah, name, date birth, place, nationality, awards, honours. And then oh, this wasUnknown Speaker  0:09  my sounding good.Unknown Speaker  0:14  I'm John Daly.Un[…]

Phil Windeatt

[…]nk that was what I wanted but I was, I was pretty solidly Labour Party, but I was attracted to what I was hearing from people like Paul Foot and International Socialists at the time. Er, and I was reading newspapers but not with great depth, just enjoying myself being an eighteen year old. [06:[…]
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