[…]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:[…]
[…]d then to Devizes in Wiltshire. Came back and of course, it was the time of the Battle of Britain and that sort of thing, andmy mother was working at Bush House. And she said, ‘Well you'll go to’, you know, ‘to Pitman’s at Southampton Row, because we can meet each day at Holburn, we’ll go to Holburn[…]
[…] Line station is and where now the ex tension to Shepherds Bush Market , it was there . I t was […]
[…] the grass went in then the long grasses and the bushes you know you had to spend the morning gardening, […]
[…] of the Cup Final. And we had an agent around Shepherds Bush way somewhere who er, was able to get us […]
[…] film industry in the late 1917 at Gaumont Studios in Shepherds Bush. Working initially as a laboratory assistant, he was soon […]
[…]t. One day there was a kind of a click and a poor rubber belt came out all charred. But it was good it was a Rank picture and I can remember going to Shepherds Bush and wanting to get some equipment from them, and they said “Oh good, great we’re going to lunch, Bertarelli’s” so I was taken to lunch,[…]
[…]t the cinema, which I only recently discovered was on the Uxbridge Road near to where the Metropolitan Line station is and where now the extension to Shepherds Bush Market, it was there. It was bombed in the War and they decided never to rebuild it. But that was the cinema it seems where she spent s[…]
