Freddie Francis

[…]knocking on the windows of the train drivers' to get them there in time to get the train out. So I had very little education really. I went to one or two what in those days, and you'll probably remember, what were called elementary schools, which was the lowest common denominator.And when I was abou[…]

Reg Sutton

[…]was the sister of the second had no issue and the fourth wife who was my grandmother had one son and four daughters. So my grandfather altogether had two sons and eight daughters and out of those two sons and eight daughters there are two daughters still alive, one in Australia and one in South Afri[…]

Reg Sutton

[…] one son and four daughters. So my grandfather altogether had two sons and eight daughters and out of those two […]

Wendy Toye

[…]s a surprise.The Mayor of Chicago, who happened to be Irish, it must have been in about 1922, and they put me in an Irish stewpot to be brought in by two chefs, and I was to be put on the table which happened, but they forgot about me and the cabaret was delayed, and there I was nearly suffocating i[…]

Michael Clarke

[…]'s employer was seminal gluckstein. In gluckstein, relatives firm Joe Lyons, which he didn't like, and we stayed until he eventually retired at 71 or two. All years from 1990, up to the beginning of the war 99 he was employed on the basis no notice is given or required. You can imagine how he was co[…]

John Shirley

[…]to education. Because it was a poor man's grammar school if you like. I mean, it was far too many of us to go to APA, Latimer and Godolphin which was two grammar schools in a district. But by came close, I mean, we we did French into Latin that was about the only difference I suppose. And also we, w[…]

Michael Darlow transcript

[…] to find way back without getting caught. I was with two ex -NCOs, we spent time in pub then hired […]

Gerry Humphreys

[…] and did another year at Surbiton Grammar School and then out into the wide world which was by then, like every child that used to go to the pictures two or three times a week I certainly wanted to be in the film industry and had written all the usual letters to Rank and to Sound City at Shepperton,[…]

Julia Cave

[…]n early films and her name was Magarey Lorring, for those films.Norman Swallow: Is that Loring?Julia Cave: Lorring and we left there when I was about two.  My father then… [um] war broke out shortly, well when I was three I guess and my father joined the admiralty.   So, we… from then on, […]
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