[…]n't speak very good English. And when in late 1890s, early 1900s, Louis said he was just going out to take the dog for a walk in fact he was going to South Africa to try and earn his fortune. It took us some weeks to realise that a) he never went for a walk anywhere and b) they hadn't got a dog. But[…]
[…]y Yorkshireman. Tell me about your origins when and where we were born?Gerald Chambers 0:58 Well, I was born in a small mining village in South Yorkshire called Highland common at number five Elm Street on the 10th of August 1927. My parents were working class in fact, there has been a d[…]
[…]: Right, Philip your name is quite clearly Irish but I suspect in fact if I didn't already know that you are a product socially and geographically of southern England, could you could you begin with that thought and talk about your upbringing and whence you came?Philip Donnellan: Yes the Irish dimen[…]
[…]s it used to be, we started to ship new shows abroad. We were shipping them to Canada. We supplied new shows to Canada, Africa, every part of Africa, South Africa, we had exchange deals with pretty well every country in the world. And at that time, we were putting out a million feet of film a week e[…]
[…] first, where and when were you born?David Prosser: Born Carshalton, Surrey, 2 February 1917 and moved very shortly after that, within four years, to South Wales, Swansea in the Gower peninsula.Alan Lawson: What kind of schooling did you have?David Prosser: Er, a thing that's never heard of nowadays[…]
[…] we had big screenings in the French Institute cinema in South Kensington. I was really catching up on my cinematic […]
[…] Cinema. In the 1960s he opened the Paris Pullman in South Kensington and the Phoenix cinemas in Finchley. SUMMARY: In […]
[…]floor.John Legard: What year are we talking about now?Rodney Giesler: This would be 1950. And we had big screenings in the French Institute cinema in South Kensington. I was really catching up on my cinematic education, reading and viewing, and getting thoroughly excited on the whole business of mov[…]
[…]n thathelped in later years, certainly in journalism.Taylor/Peet: What about going to Loretto School, was that a bit of a shock, I mean as an ignorantSouthern man tell me a bit about the school.Denis Forman: It was tremendously hardy, it was the first school where you had to wear very fewclothes eve[…]
