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[…] began her career as an actor, working initially in the theatre and subsequently on screen. Her film credits include The […]

[…]orse drawn buses?Joan Kemp-Welch: [Chuckling]. Yes, well, I have many early memories, perhaps the one I remember most clearly connected with the theatre. I think I was about five or six. We always were taken to the pantomime and the first pantomime I saw, which I shall never forget, and that ha[…]

[…]then went on and had one year at Edinburgh University.John Taylor: Anything about your childhood at all.Jimmy Gilbert: My mother was very keen on the theatre and I used to go to the Wilson Barrat and Bandon Thomas company a lot in Edinburgh. We used to go on Friday night. I also had a great interest[…]

[…] I went up the stairs, into the projection room. The theatre had just been rebuilt and re-opened again, it was […]

[…]ace. My father was now Chief Engineer for a circuit called the AC Matthews Circuit. He was an Australian entrepreneur and he built about four or five theatres. He was mad about cinemas and architecture, this man [laughs]. And he built some very good theatres which were very good acoustically, becaus[…]

[…]s inexorable march into the living rooms of the nation and the weekly visit, or in my fortunate case more often than that, to the local movie picture theatre was the form of escapism of the masses. Having been born and brought up in Edinburgh I can probably claim to have visited nearly all of the op[…]

[…]I was, yes. I felt ready in myself to start earning my living and getting on with life, yes.JR: So, there was no filming at this stage – this was all theatre?VM: Yes. It was 1950, I was in London at the Haymarket Theatre. In those days, there was a wonderful theatrical company called HM Tennent,[6] […]

[…]n… ’86, ‘87. So in ‘88 and National Officers job came up in the union. And I did think I was in a strong position. A lot of people applied. It was in theatres. So it was covering theatres.There was only one official in theatres at the time called Paul Bromley, yes, yeah, but we are now BETA. [Broadc[…]

[…]see and now we were well into Wartime.Mm.[05:00]So there was not much access to the Arts or to concerts, I never went to a concert, or a, a, the only theatre experience I had was to go to Cheltenham once a year with some friends to the pantomime, which we went in an old Morris car I can remember, an[…]