[…] an ‘internal auditor’ around the time of the merger with Odeon, and after a period of war service in engineering […]
[…]d had tea with the wife and I. And then I lost contact with him again. It went from the Broadway and became the Gaumont and he went from there to the Odeon. But I was away from all that. But I thought that was of interest. And when I came here I find he's here, now 92 years of age. [laughs] Extraord[…]
[…]ther were not in the industry at all. My mother's brother met his future wife whilst working at the Leicester Square Theatre, which today is the Odeon West End, in the middle Fifties after he was demobbed from the Army.Interviewer: And at what stage did you decide that you were going to co[…]
[…] because the Warner stood on the Gaiety sight and the Odeon on the Al- hambra and the London Pavilion became […]
[…] Road when he was fourteen. He went on to the Odeon, Kensal Rise where he returned in 1949 after National […]
[…] yes!Peter Stroud: So I had six months at the Prince of Wales first and then as soon as I was fifteen, very shortly afterwards, I went to Kensal Rise Odeon. Because you could walk in and out of jobs as you liked in those days! [Chuckles]Jim Shields: Yes that's right, yes!Peter Stroud: They were desp[…]