[…] after three years with the Met Office, I changed career and joined the BBC as a technical assistant – so, trainee engineer. And, at the time, all I knew was that they were recruiting for posts in television in London, so that would have been, really, Television Centre and Lime Grove, as they were, […]
[…]xists, that pub. And we - I was asked what I would like to drink and I'd never had any drink at home, because we never had any, and the only drink I knew of was gin, so I said, "A gin", and they said, "Single or double?" And I thought, you know, I must pretend that I know all about it, so I said, "D[…]
EXTRACT:-"A chap I knew said would I like to come down to Denham. I said, 'I don’t think I know enough about fibrous plastering.' He said, 'Well, come down because they could do with men, because they’re busy.' They were doing 'Elephant Boy' and things like that at the time, a[…]
[…] That's what was interesting to me because it was a new world that I went in you see. I'm a […]
[…]sing film.NA: So was this connected to the film industry were they processing film publicity stills or?CL: Oh no, no, they were doing they were doing newsreels and feature films for processing/NA: yeah yeah.CL: I think they were the top labs, laboratories in England, in Europe.NA: It would’ve been a[…]
[…] while and show the other pupils. And they kept disappearing And I never got any of the sketches back. He said, then one day says, I'm going to new Westminister as the next town to Vancouver BC I'm going down on businesses. He says Would you like to come for the ride would be a nice day out fo[…]
[…]out words and somebody said a twin had died and I couldn’t work out whether a twin was two people or whether half a person had died.SF: [Laughter].I knew, I knew it was something odd, you know, nothing to do with films that was just... And then I got, we got evacuated to Pontefract and I just, I mea[…]
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