Ronnie Noble

[…];to go down to take a package to the film studios in Lime Grove Shepherd's Bush and the whole place reeked of fish when I went in there and the first&[…]

Adam Dawson

[…]so had meetings where they would get hold of people to talk to us.  And I got hold of Hugh Gray, who was the research at Gaumont British at Shepherds Bush.  And it was through him that I was able to do anything at all on films because there's no training, no way of getting into f[…]

A A 'Alf' Tunwell

[…]Tunwell: Oh yes at the Cup Final, well I myself, er, on this particular year Paramount bought the rights of the Cup Final. And we had an agent around Shepherds Bush way somewhere who er, was able to get us good tickets, very good tickets. And we bought quite a number from him, which had given us exc[…]

Maurice Elvey

[…]al Command Performance ever given of any film. It was put on by the Davises, who ran that huge theatre at Croydon, and built the great big Shepherd's Bush place. They had a theatre then called the Marble Arch Pavilion - charming theatre; it was a real "class" theatre, as we used to call it. They put[…]

Christopher Challis

[…]y taxi because it was illegal to carry nitrate based film on public transport but of course everybody did it because it was quicker. The labs were at Shepherds Bush. You went by train and charged for a taxi. So you supplemented your earnings in that way.KGY: £1 a week was extremely low even then.CC:[…]

Betty Batchelor

[…]idence that he wasn't doing enough time for Denham Studios so they would dispense with his services, and he was put in line for Studios at Shepherd's Bush, then the ETU asked him if he would stand as national officer which he did and he got the job.Sid Cole: Can you remember any of the dates.Betty B[…]

Sheila Collins

[…]ting things, again going back to this Company of Youth as distinct from charm school, of course as well as the four major studios: Ealing, Shepherd’s Bush, Pinewood and Denham, there was Highbury, where John Croydon made those excellent little supporting pictures, and it was a training ground for th[…]
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