[…]eras were very expensive then, as they are now, so I wouldn't say it was a hobby that I had but I was interested in photography, playing with cameras etc but still had that inkling to work in television somehow, somewhere along the line in many years to come. I: And Twentieth Century Movies, di[…]
[…] television schools programmes. They did that before the BBC and the BBC were really not best pleased about this because they were planning it, etc. etc. but Associated-Rediffusion did it first. So, there was quite a lot of work for people who were working on those educational programmes[…]
[…] piece of land from the Earl of Fitzwilliam, because they had found there were outcrops of iron stone and there was a water supply to drive the mills etc. And therefore they in this valley called thorncliffe, they set up this firm of Iam founders, which subsequently developed into pits collar is cok[…]
[…] this and that and the other thing, a marble fountain, etc. My father said, kind of as a leg pull, […]
[…]e gone to some sort of school to learn to read and write, or did you learn that at home?EC: Well, I learned in that book. It said "Rude" and "Common" etc. That's all I did have, honestly.SC: Was your Mother professional at anything?EC: Yes, my Mother was a violinist. She was what they called a virtu[…]
[…] clouds move and the sea to go up and down etc etc. You have got to think up something very […]
[…] marvellous. Unfortunately, many of them didn't put back into the cinemas the money they were making at that time and, after the war, came television etc. and it showed this had been a bad policy. Those that had invested felt the benefit of it when things got tougher.INT There was a time during the […]
[…]re still at the grammar school-the one you had disliked?MD: Oh yes! Oh yes! I was constantly having to ask the headmistress for permission to be away etc etc. When I came to leaving school, she was quite decent. I joyfully left school before I was fourteen and came to London to join Vic Wells Ballet[…]
