[…]a theatre or...DS: No, the extraordinary thing is, isn’t it, when you’re very young, you just take things for granted. That’s one thing how royalty carry on, they take it for granted that people look at them.They’ve known no other.DS: They’ve known no other, no. I think we just took i[…]
[…];A Sense of the Past programme? I did one with him in a cinema in Leeds, but with Pebble Mill, Stephanie Silk was the presenter, I think. We did royalty, films about royalty, films about advertising, one or two other themes like that, with me on camera.34I remember Scott’s – you can edit this o[…]
[…]mething round about then. So I carried on at the Square for a long time, or it seemed to be. Stage shows, everybody used to wear tuxedos if there was royalty in the place. I didn't - only if you went to the theatre did you have to. Parnell used to come in looking like a penguin, you know. We had som[…]
[…] back in, as a child there was an uncle who as it were conditioned my very, very early childish interest in the cinema. He used to take me to the old Royalty Cinema in Kensington High Street, which was the first cinema ever in the Royal Borough, and in fact the only cinema for years in Kensington.&n[…]
[…] years. We had an RSM called Derek Craig who theoretically ran the unit well I mean clearly we had a captain, what was his name? Captain Boyle in the Royal Scots but everyone just buggered off and did their own thing. We had German POWs as servants as body servants looking after our billets. &n[…]
[…] in Taranto and then desperately tried tofind the Argyll Regiment I was aiming for, the Eighth Argylls but alas was posted as Second inCommand to the Royal West Kent Regiment which was next door to them because they had got noMajors and the Argylls had too many Majors.Taylor/Peet: What rank were you[…]
[…]recording is vested in the BECTU  history project. Today's subject Gerald chambers are senior floor manager with experience at AR TV Rediffusion television and London Weekend Television. Gerald is now retired. The interviewer is john P. Hamilton, a member of the committee. The date Tuesday the […]
[…]d at 17, at 18 and a half you were called up whether you are willing not. I would have loved to have gone into aircrew because my dad had been in the Royal Flying Corps in the first war and I've been brought up on aeroplanes as a kid. But my eyesight is very bad. So that was that. You know, if you b[…]
[…]; Starting off at the Bombay High School, where I think I was probably the only European which was kind of interesting because it was the time of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny and the time of all the riots before partition and it was quite dangerous, we were in buses which were turned over and burnt […]
