[…]in the very early…still only one transmitter, still only Crystal Palace, ‘cause I remember writing the newsreel when the Sutton Coldfield transmitter opened and we did a special film arranged for the Midlands, to greet the Midlands as Sutton Coldfield opened. Now this was a small world, the ne[…]
[…]It had been using a 120-seater hall in part of the old campus for screenings with a maximum membership of 150 but when a new Live Performance Theatre opened at George Square, and was being equipped with 16 mm projection kit and had a seating capacity of over 500, it was only natural that an expansio[…]
[…]g in, not my sister and I, when I was married and living in London for a couple of years and one night there was a knock on the front door and when I opened the door there was an oldish man there who turned out to be an uncle from Vancouver and he had tracked us down to this house in London. We cour[…]
[…]uys who hadn’t come back, that was about 1945.DS: And they wanted the theatre back, of course, they wanted everybody out and clean up the theatre and open it up again. So my sister Sheila – Joan was still on tour – sister Sheila was working in the BBC, secretarial side, and she w[…]
[…] I mean, it was that fierce there were no theatres open - we were packed out with people, because there […]
[…]of the pioneers of the BECTU History Project. Interviewer Alan Lawson. Recorded on 25/3/98, side 1.Alan Lawson: Well we'll start with the traditional opening - first, when and where were you born?David Robson: I was born in a place called Enfield in 1921. I've never been back to Enfield because my m[…]
[…], the only way one could keep warm was to drink tea, hot tea, which we held our hand round from the canteen. And you know British canteens, they were open from like, 10 to 10.30, and not at all again until, you know, 12 to 1 or whatever.
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[…]called Large as life. It's a review. And Harry Secombe's in it Eric Sykes I think Hattie Jakes nutty Harry. Harry's Worth isn't there and singing the opening by the way was Val's wife who became his wife Annette Ray and Annette Ray. Yeah singing in it and taking part in the odd sketch. I said well t[…]
[…] to eff off and 4 keep your eyes and ears open and you hear everything that's going o n. You […]
[…]never done before. And the dress rehearsal was a total shambles and there was a terrific amount of tearing up and one thing and the other. But on the opening night it was the biggest success they'd ever had. They just bought the place down and it ran until April and made the company an awful lot of […]
