Dicky Leeman

[…]ast eighteen months of my career in the RAF, I got transferred to the RAF Film Unit at Pinewood Studios. And one day I was sent for by our commanding officer, which was Teddy Baird, and Pat Moyner[?], and they said, "The Rank Organisation are looking desperately for an assistant director and there i[…]

Robert Love

Robert Love [Start of Recording] [00:00] I: So we're interviewing Robert Love. I'm the interviewer, Tim Amyes. Robert was here from '76 to '93? R: Till 2001, I think! I: 2001! 1976 till 2001. And today is the 28th [May, 2017]. So there we go. We've identified the tape. So wh[…]

Mary Harvey (Welford)

BECTU History ProjectInterview no: Interviewee: Interviewer: No of tapes Duration:390Mary Harvey Teddy Darvas 2111:29COPYRIGHT: No use may be made of any interview material without the permission of the BECTU History Project (http://www.historyproject.org.uk/). Copyright of interview material is ves[…]

Eileen Diss

 (cut off) 1994 Tape 1 side 1 Eileen Diss, interview number 323.I: Where were you born?ED: In Hackney, East LondonI: Ah, what kind of schooling did you receive?ED: Very ordinary Elementary School and the 11 plus to the local Grammar School which was Guilford County High School fo[…]

John Shearman

[…] you let us put up, put your name in for this, he said, and you'll be a sergeant before you know where you are. And he was dead, right? I was a pilot officer before I knew where I was. You see Derek twist and Teddy Bear were forming the Royal Air Force Film Unit.Unknown Speaker  23:34  And[…]

John Krish

[…]and was probably the last film I worked on there. I was called up and I went into the artillery and was sent to a War Office selection board to be an officer and then I contracted meningitis. In the meantime, just before that, the brother I hero-worshipped, Felix, was killed. And so I was er - laid […]

Dennis Kimbley

[…]iness. I did have contact with I suppose the stage because I became I got a commission in Middlesex Richmond. And they then became the entertainments officer when we were out in Palestine, or in Egypt and then Palestine. And I used to do all the bookings of the shows used to come along and whatnot. […]

Gerry Humphreys

[…]r where we lived saw on a board outside Nettlefold Studios, Office Boy Wanted.  So he came home and said Nettlefold Studios Walton, they want an officer boy.  Whoosh I was off and fortunately got the job as office boy at Nettlefold Studios as it was then which became Walton Studios.AL Who […]

Lois Singer

[…]Side 1 Recorded 16.08.93 The copyright is vested in the BECTU History Project. Joyce Robinson  0:02  The copyright of this recording is vested in the BECTU  History Project.The name of the interviewee is Lois Singer. Her last discipline and grade is L 18.[…]
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