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[…]a book that Nipa minimal came on I couldn't afford the books and they gave us tickets or she'll still go up and coming back to four years at West Country so I said it was for undergoes and for on the poorest West Kensington.Sid Cole  3:11  Now that Central School was very largely a craft s[…]

[…]f ambition to be in those days? Pamela Mann-Francis  2:10  I don't, I certainly didn't have any ambitions for the film [industry]. I was a great film fan. I mean, I was, as we were. I mean, we went to the cinema every week, and sometimes twice a week, sometimes three times. […]

[…]ham, and dad being although he had his own business of Wheeler, right, and people weren't paying the bills, because they state the, you know, the country was in flux. Yeah. So dad decided that he'd come over to Birmingham with some of his friends who had already been here as a carpenter. Yeah. And t[…]

[…]rt of firm did you work for?  Lois Singer  1:56  Oh, I worked in a children's hospital for the matron. I worked in industry, obviously, in Birmingham, that's very common. Lois Singer  2:07  I had my first real long term permanent job as a secret[…]

[…]ated to?Peter Stroud: Northampton.Jim Shields: Northampton. And er, after that, when you eventually left school where did you first start in the industry?Peter Stroud: Er, I had about six months in odd jobs first, then I - then I was about what? Fourteen and a half I suppose - no - yeah, fourteen an[…]

[…]istant art director.Sidney Cole: Yes.Carmen Dillon: Almost immediately. Because I had to get it set into it. But I had a very dear little man who was trying to carry it on, and he was a glorious dopey drunk.Sidney Cole: [laughs].Carmen Dillon: And so really I had quite a lot to do. And I enjoyed it […]

[…]o to South Africa. And I of course, at that time, if you wanted to make money, you'd debate your way to London. There was a boom in the building industry, and Rodney Giesler  1:18  This was the early 30s.  Gus Walker  1:21  Yeah,mid 30s, and qui[…]

[…]ng school, so I went away at the age of 8 to a boarding school at Warwick—quite a distinguished school in its way. I think it's the oldest in the country. It was founded I think in 946, by Edward the Confessor. But it's not an expensive or distinguished school, but very old. Warwick School. INT[…]

[…]nd ourselves out in the Atlantic wondering where on earth we were going as we appeared to be going to America, but it turned out eventually they were trying to avoid the U-boats which meant going right out into the Atlantic and then coming up quietly to Gibraltar after two weeks.Two weeks?Yes. In wh[…]