Sue (Susan) Crockford

[…] Anyway.I kind of ignore all them. I mean all they do is take our money. I really am so dis..., uninterested, disinterested, past, beyond interest in Royal Family as it stands.SF: You must return to Unity Theatre darling.Return to Unity because it is, it’s important. It was a, it was a double thing.[…]

E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…] you know, today when one sort of tries to tell one's grandson or something, what certain things cost - the fact that you could get lunch at the Cafe Royal for 17.5d up to the beginning of the war, you know they sort of think, "Oh he's starting to go funny already." But 25 shillings was not to be sn[…]

Pat Jackson

[…]John Legard: Absolutely.Pat Jackson: But, er...I mean they were magical days...magic. I mean, imagine at the age of eighteen, nineteen...going on the Royal Scot on the footplate and stoking it as we climbed over Beattock. Which I was allowed to do. I mean, fabulous experiences for a seventeen-year-o[…]

Robert Beatty

[…]drunker. I remember that through a haze but fairly clearly. The next one is 49th Parallel.Robert Beatty: I did a scene where I was supposed to be the Royal Canadian Mounted Police finding the body, somebody.Roy Fowler: Was it Olivier?Robert Beatty: It could have been. But for some unknown reason the[…]

Chris Kelly

[…]were advised that if he wanted to promote music, that that was the best course of action to take was to maybe do a deal and share a percentage of the royalties, if you like, for the publisher to go out and promote and market none of which they did. So it's been it's been a this a disappointment, I h[…]

Jimmy Nairn

[…]g The One O'Clock Gang one day and the curtain, there was a safety curtain, it was done, remember, on, the studio was the former stage of the Theatre Royal in Glasgow and the safety curtain was governed by hydraulics which were governed by the Water Board or somebody like that and at the start of th[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…]little firm in, in Bromley and was doing some cutting for them. They were making a film for... You know, I don’t know if either of you know about the Royal Institution Lectures, they have lectures for...[40:30]AL: Yes.Schoolchildren in the Christmas holidays. Well one of these had been filmed and Iw[…]

L P (Bill) Williams

[…]n Aldenham, after which I went to the Architectural Association, where I did a 5-year course in architecture and in 1928 I became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Uh, during the time I was a student, I happened to be walking to the Tube one day with a friend of my father's,[…]
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