[…]He didn't go any further. But what he would what he did was he picked me up with the Lawley appraiser because they wanted to instal the stuff down at Shepherds Bush. I've got photographs of it.Unknown Speaker 19:09 howRon Hill 19:23 so I went down to see Lawley. Always Mr. La[…]
[…]ional interviewed me and eventually agreed to give me a job.Jim Connock : Tell me, I'm not quite clear in my own mind, you were already at Shepherd's Bush when I went there and I worked for Gainsborough Pictures, which were the sort of 'feature' arm. There was, also on the same floor there was GB Ne[…]
[…] of again belong to the BBC in those days. So you have lectures and so forth at the Langham and then he was you went out on day visits to White City, shepherds, Bush, Lime Grove. And so you went around all the studios and got familiarised with the whole concept of broadcast television and so forth, […]
[…]e bit it wasn't it wasn't much but it sparked the whole business off, you know, and he's got me a job. As an apprentice with Gaumont British that the Shepherds Bush Pavilion, which was in the largest in modern Europe.And 3000 seater, and I worked for the UN I put out in the care of the art director […]
[…] I had the fortunate thing of living next door to a cameraman called Jack Whitehead and Jack Whitehead got me a job in the sound department at Chip's Bush studios. Why were you so keen on major so keen on getting into the films. I haven't the faintest idea. Did you go to films a lot. Yes. Well every[…]
[…]ing, you say. But of course, say British acoustic were a very tiny unit then, but this was at Woodruff road. But like I joined them at Woodruff Road, Shepherds Bush.Roy Fowler 2:17 Is it still a studio sound system is it installed in studios? It wasSpeaker 1 2:24 that time. I[…]
[…]es and all columns and that.Sidney Cole: Yeah.Tom Peacock: I won a prize, first prize.Sidney Cole: Where was that?Tom Peacock: Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush.Sidney Cole: No, the school I mean.Tom Peacock: Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush.Sidney Cole: Oh it was in Lime Grove? Oh...Tom Peacock: Yeah it was, […]
[…]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[…]
[…]llious, and actually got a notice for that in the news chronicle. And er…but I still didn’t really like the idea of acting. Then I went to Shepherd’s Bush, and was interviewed by a fat man who said “he’ll do!”. And er, I said “what am I supposed to do?” and he said er. “you’re a page boy in a hotel.[…]
[…]e were demobilised. 46 March 46. And I having seen a lot of damn good films, I thought I really got to learn the business again. So I crawled back to Shepherds, Bush and I got a job as a second assistant at five pound a week. If I'd have been wise, I'd have gone back, and I'm now a Major and all tha[…]
