E M (Michael) Smedley Aston

[…]ness but I was in the placard business whereby when you went round various fruit shops you saw these little things hanging up with Greek currants and South African apples and God knows what. Anyhow it was quite good but the problem was that whereas I'd gone in expecting to be temporary with you know[…]

Richard Marden

[…]ve been in about late 80s I should think very together  a very bright say Well, I dear boy  I you know  I spend half the year  in South Africa. I've got a mobile have a caravan I drive down around.Alan Legard  44:29  Yeah, so I remember that time when he came. I never a[…]

James Arthur Clark

[…]ark was able because he's good at this sort of thing was able to raise the necessary money. So the film got financed partly I think by tax money from South Africa where we shot the film. The book had been around for a number of years and was a very good comic novel and the sort of evil and war tradi[…]

Ronald Neame

[…]t 23. He was already a very known, well known London photographer. Ronald Neame  1:02  He had studios in Bonn Street. And in South Kensington, he had quite a good commercial business in the sense that he did a lot of photographic work for catalogs for clothes, for hats for s[…]

Brian Shemmings

[…]nbsp;mother married again around about 1946 and we went to live in Stockwell in southwest London and I went to Henry Thornton grammar school. In Clapham Common betwe[…]

Francis Searle

[…]:32  where was the factory? By the way, you did mention it, but the factorySpeaker 1  37:36  was at Bendin Valley in off Garrett lane, southwest London.Roy Fowler  37:43  Oh, yes, Wandsworth, that's right,Speaker 1  37:47  yes, it was there because the wandle went […]

Gerry Morrisey

[…]on, but suddenly we find about the time of NATTKE that they are moving, that they introduced, to everyone's astonishment, the ABS backed a boycott on South African production, GM: Yes. RL: And banned it. And did it fairly effectively, yeah. Everyone was astonished. That was a sign of that […]

Derek Threadgall

[…]lory Hope and Glory. Very similar very not particularly because it was similar for him or me a similar for hundreds and thousands people all over the South Eastern. What have you but these things happened and the air raids would go on especially with the Blitz of London has been on the flight path. […]

Richard Levin

[…]to put the new printing machines on the cover. Could you do that? He said, Well, because it will drop to get home with some character in a play about South Sea Island. I did this little tiny drawing and sign living. Interesting. It's probably there somewhere. And I brought this cover up for the Radi[…]

Sandy Ross

[…]it was all very clandestine and I had to go to London to meet Bill Brown, who was the Managing Director, and it all took place in the Company flat in South Kensington because all the ITV companies had flats in London at that time because the Directors of Programmes and the Managing Directors would m[…]
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