[…]t it was a. gramaphone needle on the side of the film that picked up the soundtrack. So I thought was a word, no, can't be a needle, because it  will tear  into the film. But that's the idea I got from here. I went to cinema close to home at Clapham Junction, but at Clapham Junction. And t[…]
Please note this interview transcripted  was converted from a PDF file into a Word document. It will require proof reading and editing.   Interview with Cyril Howard at Pinewood Studios on 25th August1988SIDE l, TAPE lRF:  When and where&nb[…]
[…]ne in June 1914, which means that in two months time, I shall be 74 the place this auspicious event occurred was in a small terrace suburban house in Willesden. At the bottom of our garden, I can remember a quiet park now gone, and marvelous sunsets. I had a very happy childhood, blighted by the fac[…]
[…] this recording are the copyright of the ACTT History Project.Lesley Hodgson [LH]: Where and when were you born?Wyn Rider [WR]: I was born in 1915 in Willesden and very quickly moved out to the Gerrards Cross/High Wycombe area.LH: One slight thing, which I’ve always been curious about which is not o[…]
[…]kinghamshire. The date is the 28th of August, 2025 the copyright of this interview is vested in the British entertainment history project archive. We will start then with the interview with Harry. Harry, can you tell us where and when you were born? Harry Coventry  0:34  Yea[…]
[…]ng the aircraft that was my that was the main task. So I did partly conversion of aircrew lectures and also lectures training the the air fitters who will be responsible for putting the maintaining the equipment in the aircraft at the at the airfields where the aircraft were deployed. So sort of dou[…]
[…]n, I'm bored anyway’, her husband was very boring, she was always bored with her husband, ‘and be my private social companion, secretary, the company will pay’, so I came to London, you see. And started over with Anna, you know, having chocolates and cup of tea and talking about men and, you know. A[…]
[…] acts they used to come and stay at our hotel, it was absolutely hilarious. SC: Did any very famous people stay? UB: Oh Harry Tate, Bransby Williams, Eddie Gray, he used to stand outside in the summer. He’d put a paper down outside the main entrance and stand there touting for trade, if he[…]
[…]ne of the great bullshit artists, one of the great conmen, mm, and we all went through a period where we thought ‘ah’, you know, ‘here is someone who will be a very effective Chair’, and in some ways he was because John had a, an ability to get money out of people and sometimes to their great distre[…]
