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[…] he said What you going to do. I said I don't really know. He said Well you know we've been you brewery out there. It's the first time overseas we've opened a brewery. You said you'd get marine and that's what I did. And that was all stops and I'd put their product that beer on the market in Kenya a[…]
[…]ch he thought - I think - would last the duration. They'd taken all the strip lighting out of the showcases. And these were metal boxes with one side open. And they were wired in series with a number of bulbs in them, say 5, 6, 10 bulbs depending on their length. And they slotted underneath the glas[…]
[…] but from time to time, the projectionist could run the open gate projector at the white screen and this little […]
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[…] Princess Royal in the balcony while the coronation of our Queen was going on. And then the great Princess of Tonga came past, an enormous lady in an open carriage a Landau, with the little footman sitting opposite. And the Princess Royal turned around to Noel Coward and said “Do you know who t[…]
[…]50] and I remember going upthere one day, it was rather sweet to his office to tell him I’d, I’d got this job atNational Screen Service who were just opening in this country. And I, I ran up and I could hardly, I could hardly talk. I was so excited about this. And I remember JohnCayburn [ph 10:00] w[…]
[…]Tony Bridgewater 41:28 It changed in in March 1930? Yes, I ought to mention that. We had a big flourish to the opening. Ambrose Fleming came along and Professor Andrade and various people, you know, all for publicity, and Baird spoke. And this chap Mosley who w[…]
[…]cularly,Geoff Labram 10:28 as the years went by? And yes, it did, I think when, in my later school days, it certainly did. And I remember opening a file, which I began to fill with, with paper, which, by another strange piece of irony, irony seems to crop up a lot. And this was all about[…]
