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[…]p;famous broad caster, Olive Chapley she1s still around. Anyway John Salt interviewed me, just the two of us, to which he said a day ortwo later that I1d got the job. Wh[…]
[…]fined in those times, and she was all right for the first few years of our lives. But, I mean, I'm one of four siblings. My. Have an older sister and two younger brothers. IMike Dick 5:01 just wanted to find out how your parents had actually met, and given theSpeaker 1 5:05 c[…]
[…]s. All of us worked at the firm, but none of them had this attachment to it in in in that sense. SoJohn P Hamilton 3:50 you have you have two brothers.Gerald Chambers 3:52 Yes. Younger brother and an older brother.John P Hamilton 3:55 You're the middle one. So um,[…]
[…]the film that was in production when I arrived there was Jack Buchanan and Betty Balfour, and I can't remember the name of the film but they were the two stars of the day. And from 1924 until 1927 we did a film at Stag Lane aerodrome with Sir Alan Cobham [NB The Flight Commander] and the er...John T[…]
[…]e was a top of the road, and I used to charge batteries and carry batteries around for when they used to have the oldUnknown Speaker 1:42 two two volt batteries for the old radio sporting, yeah, from there, I went up to their headquarters in Fitzroy square.Unknown Speaker 1:51 &nbs[…]
[…]that. When I said that I wanted to be a sound recordist they did not even understand what a sound recordist was in those days because there were only two ways of doing it – you either went into broadcasting or gramophone records or films and it was practically unknown for anybody to be interested in[…]
[…]nt to work. I was going to be an electrical engineer. I was very interested in that at the time. And then I was ill. I had rheumatic fever and one or two other things. And I got, I went to I got a job on the newspaper, and I was going to say I was photographer, though I was going to eventually be a […]
[…]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[…]
[…]ney.Q But, just one thing you said - she wanted to be available when we came home from school - was it a big family?A Three of us, three girls, I was two when my father died so I just remember seeing him - he was very tall, over six feet, and ginger hair. And how he came to England, he came from the[…]
