[…]y father was in charge of work on for instancethe Titanic, interior work, and my brother was an architect, and my other brother was inpublicity, in artwork in publicity. So there was a sort of basic interest there.Roy Fowler: Was your father's work entirely on shipsMaurice Carter: Yes, entirely on s[…]
[…] born February 16, 1920. In a house that backed on to the southern entrance of the Penge Tunnel in South London, and already in the family there were two older sisters, and brother and I was born there in this house that had been bought by local Quakers, and then my parents rented it because my fath[…]
[…] everything. It used to go on for, oh, probably, maybe two or three months you see. [Chuckles.] But you were […]
[…]hought ‘Jesus, I’ve got to go see that’. So I applied for a passport and gave that for the reason and er I fully expected it was to be for two weeks you know, because one was liable for military service it was a very rigorous process. And then when it came to going up to colleg[…]
[…]director-WR: Well for some time – I was so young Les that I don’t really know – he almost took over Beaconsfield Studios, which we were living almost two or three miles away from, and she – when she wasn’t with him – I know one thing she did, she did two liners, two big liners, she did the nursery, […]
[…] tuppence for the house, you know? And my Father and two or three other men opened up an old mine... […]
[…] I can remember as if it was yesterday, things was pretty bad. I mean I would run errands to earn tuppence for the house, you know? And my Father and two or three other men opened up an old mine...Rodney Giesler: Where is this? Where was this?Larry Allen: This was in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, you[…]
[…] and practice. Anyway, cut a long story, I should...I did two films there and er...then I had to er...filming was...coming […]
[…]oling?Cyril Page: Er...I went to er the er Holbrook Road School, then I went to the Pallais[?] Memorial School...er...and then there, we moved to Brentwood and I went to the Brentwood Grammar School, and then back to West Ham again, and I finished up at Holbrook Road where I...where I went...Finishe[…]
[…]ys in the firing line from the German bombers. They were on their way to London and came over us and we were very much in the firing line. In fact on two occasions I was nearly my family were nearly wiped out. While I was with a flying bomb.SPEAKER: M4That clipped our rooftop dived into the next str[…]
