Harry Coventry

[…]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[…]

Roger Davis

[…]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[…]

Una Bart (Jennings)

[…] 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[…]

BEHP Bulletin no 8 June 2021

[…] the National Art Library catalogue: https://nal - vam.on.worldcat.org/discovery and they will continue to be held in the Theatre and Performance […]

Elizabeth Furse (née Wolpert)

[…]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[…]

Roy Fowler

[…]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[…]
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