[…] 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[…]
[…]k in Margate and three days a week in Ramsgate, and I used to get the train over. And we had two really super art masters. One had come down from the Royal College because the old head had died and the other one had come down because he had bad health. They were both very good art masters...they fou[…]
[…]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[…]
[…]t.com.Bill Ward Side 1 Alan Lawson  0:00  The copyright of this recording is vested in the Bectu History Project, Bill Ward, television technician since 1936 director, producer, programme executive, interviewer, Norman Swallow with Alan Lawson recorded on the 21st of January[…]
[…]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[…]
[…] a funny look and I said, "That wasn't very good, was it?" He said, "No!" So I went next door to the top spot, which was the pub, next to the Theatre Royal which is where STV originally was and I had a gin and tonic and I'm sitting there and about ten minutes later Jimmy came in and said, "I've been[…]
[…] props, costumes for Hugh Skillen, so via that, got involved with Cecil Beaton, Oliver Messel. I worked with Oliver Messel quite a bit. There was The Royal Opera House [which] had a Gala Performance of Sleeping Beauty which was the first one after the War. So, it was big, and the French President ca[…]
