Bernard Gribble

[…]re you were born. SONG When you went we went to school sort of thing. Okay well I came from a farming family and lived in.SPEAKER: M10Sussex. Born in New Haven and my father. Rented a farm at Sheffield Park just north of Lewes and it was a remarkable house. The farmhouse it was 800 years old court w[…]

James (Jimmy) Gilbert

[…] gave you about three and a half hours entertainment which you could just squeeze in another film if you wanted to after that, which was opposite the new Victoria Cinema in Edinburgh.John Taylor: Your parents were quite happy you went to the cinema.Jimmy Gilbert: I think so. My mother was a sort of […]

Yvonne Littlewood

[…]across the road at five o'clock on, on Mondays for the meeting the next day for the... And it was an interesting though thing, it was like, we need a new transmitter, or there, we, we had War correspondents and we need another one. And I can remember names like Richard Dimbleby, and Wynford Vaughan […]

Robert M (Bob) Angell

[…]arly age in the theatre and in photography, and in films, not a film buff, but I just and living Gerrards cross, I suppose denim studios was built, Pinewood was opening. And I remember very well, seeing the, the British LAN van going up the Oxford road every day from bekins field studios, which is o[…]

Margaret Dale

[…]ct.Interviewer Norman SwallowRecorded on the 21st January 1992. DISC 1 Side One Track 1NS: First of all Maggie, when and where were you born?MD: Newcastle on Tyne 1922. I am the same age as the BBC (both laugh).NS: What kind of schooling did you do?MD: I went to school very early, I think you w[…]

Charlotte Jennings

[…]y Lou and I left Eastern? in an air raid and took the train to Glasgow, and got on a ship called the Cameroonian which was in convoy with evacuees to New York, and took us 10 days to get to New York with outsight of  land. It was actually torpedoed and sunk on its return journey.Alan Lawson &nb[…]

Frances Cockburn

[…]d of my life. And then he wrote to me and said that I could go back well I know why, because I think it's so happened that I was the only person who knew anything about the library at the time. And anyhow I went back, and because one has the impertinence of youth, I said, Do you think you could give[…]

Francis Searle

[…]nd I suppose also that this, this sort of, that sphere, was almost intimidating, because the old boy, bless his heart, he was infuriating because he knew every dancing could do Everything heUnknown Speaker  24:29  bind, books, paint, Carpenter, stuff, and I there was a time when I sort ofS[…]
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