[…]ere were you born?David Robson: I was born in a place called Enfield in 1921. I've never been back to Enfield because my mother died when I was about two, two and a half, and my father was the Chief Projectionist at the Plaza, Lower Regents Street. So there was nobody to look after me as a baby. I w[…]
[…]my friend was Henry bezel, ah bezel. And after we've I received the photographic equipment from my uncle. I got very interested in photography. I had two lovely Kodak cameras. I wish I had them now. And also, we used to convert the old Kathy, wooden box camera into a projector. And we actually proje[…]
[…]theoretically, I wasn't interested in science, but I got interested in science when it became mathematical. I was interested in it when you could mix two chemicals together and they either change colour or blue up one or the other. And, but it's the moment I got into science in school, which there w[…]
[…]mber doing at school, I used to sneak down very early in the morning, to the masters’ common room where there was an old typewriter and I slowly with two fingers learnt to type and typed out odd stories.RF: So writing was an early motivation.VG: Yes.RF: Was also acting?VG: No.RF: Not even in school […]
[…]n, by the way. My schooling was a Catholic Church school, we were Catholics our family were Catholic. In Macklin Street, I went to one or two other little schools you know, but the school I remember most was the last school I went to and that was Macklin Street Catholic Church, off Drury[…]
[…] and my mother was terrified of this and again I had. An older girl of about seven they used to escort me when I first started. And. My brother who's two years younger than me. He started when I was seven and I remember being terrified having to look after my brother who couldn't have cared less. Th[…]
[…]on sides four to seven. DS.Please Note: Dennis Main Wilson’s interview is not strictly chronological and contains strong views on politics, World War Two and – of course – comedy and light entertainment.Dennis Main Wilson Side 1Alan Lawson 0:00 The copyright of this recording is vested i[…]
[…]you’re a wonderful people”. So that was it, I was born there and I had a very happy childhood albeit it was like so many people, ten people living in two rooms, spending most of the night killing bugs. But, however in the long run of course I realise that the transition to my later life was much mor[…]
[…]ou that one of the most important things in the formative years was the fact that my grandfather a big fish in a small pond actually owned shares and two of the three theatres that we had in the town at the time. And when I was ten years old gave me a pass to these theaters where I could take myself[…]
[…]uldn’t think why we kept running to church. But he only lasted about a couple of months or so, got bored with that, that was the end of that. My two sisters have remained. Hazel dropped it, but she’s an all church type person now. I went away from it for a while - I think everybody does - […]
