Harold Myers

[…] approaching a slum in the back waters of Notting Hill, and it was apparently I was a kid with my parents. It was a hard struggle, and when the first world war came, my father, who had not been naturalized, was given the option of either becoming a naturalized British subject and serving in the army[…]

Alan Izod

[…]est cliff, you know, just near Southend in  Essex. And so that was that my first school that actually lasted until about the middle of the First World War. And then we were we were moved away from there because this was the route in which these Zeppelins are one of the routes that the Zeppelins[…]

Lord Lew Grade

[…] competition at the Royal Albert Hall, December 15th, 1926, the World Charleston Championship. I went in for it, I won […]

billywilliamsbectu-tape3

[…] whole question of American lives must be protected throughout the world, and we won't tolerate the hostage taking, and unless […]

Carol Owens

[…]ma in Liverpool. I've never been able to find any information about this, not that I've researched it formally yet.My father had served in the Second World War and afterwards he got the opportunity to study geology at King's College in London, and he then went into industrial minerals engineering an[…]

Joy Cuff (née Seddon)

[…]nd I bought 'The Earth Beneath Us' which I've still got at home and it's fantastic photographs of all the wonderful landscapes we've got all over the world and so I'm looking at that and thinking about what I could do but then of course you arrive on the film and everything has been designed anyway […]

Phyllis Dalton

[…]mour.And that was, Our Man in Havana, was the first Carol Reed film you worked on?Yes, it was. And John was on that too. Then there was The World of Suzie Wong. That was a difficult one, we had a change of directors halfway through, change of Suzie as well,because we started with one actre[…]

John Cotter

[…]This is an interview with John Cotter recorded by Rodney Giesler on 5 July 1997 in ChargeSomerset. Copyright in this recording is vested in the Becta World History Project.C) John can you tell me a bit about when you were born and about your family background?A Yes, certainly, I was born in Blackhea[…]
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