Sheila Collins

[…]s really interesting.Started working for them in 1949 and the first film I worked on was Cairo Road, whichwas almost the last film to be made at Welwyn Studios.Was this Mayflower Productions any connection with the original Laughton Pommer company?They had bought it from Laughton Pommer and in […]

Renee Glynne

[…]omething even before that.DARROL BLAKE: Ahh. What was that?RENÉE GLYNNE: We have to know it was World War II and I was an evacuee. I was evacuated to Welwyn Garden City. There was a film studio there called Welwyn Studios. We all knew that and we kind of knew what film was beingmade or had been made[…]

Muriel Box (Gardiner) (née Baker)

[…]h up with you. So, to cut a long story short, how did get into the film business?Muriel Box : Oh dear, very tortuous. I wanted to learn when I was at Welwyn Garden City - I lived there, I'd left home at twenty and a friend of ours offered me a home there - I managed to get a job in the short-hand ty[…]

Muriel Box

[…] very tortuous. I wanted to learn when I was at Welwyn Garden City - I lived there, I'd left home […]

Winston (Wyn) Ryder

[…]n’t know whether it was from here, I think it was afterwards; it would be interesting from and ACT point of view; I went to see the Chief of Sound at Welwyn. I’ve only been to Welwyn twice, once was to deliver a roll of film, and once was this interview, and he interviewed me and during this intervi[…]

Vivienne Collins

[…] to get a rise as well so all in all the...It made sense?It was compelling really to, to go and do that.Oh yes.AL: They were at Elstree not, not Welwyn, they’d moved from Welwyn?I think though they were at Welwyn.16AL: They had been at Welwyn, yes, at one time.They were behind the Gate Studios.[…]

Pat Jackson

[…]riter, b 1911, who was co-writer of Jackson's Seven Keys in 1961 - is this correct?]John Legard: Henry BlythPat Jackson: Henry Blyth. He got a job at Welwyn Garden City as a camera operator. He was a very bright lad. And there was suddenly a vacancy for another camera assistant, so he rang me up and[…]
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