Thursday 21 February 2013
Boston in wartime
This isn't directly related to Boston Grammar School but if you haven't seen this wartime film about Boston you might find it interesting. Actually, when you see the Home Guard marching I think it might be in the school yard. Maybe some of our older visitors can suggest whether that's likely.
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Thank you for that. So many evocative scenes, even for those of us of post-war vintage. I really noticed the lack of motor vehicles, a combination of wartime and relative rarity for the man-in-the-street, but doesn't the town look better for it. Loved the old fellows playing bowls in suits and ties.
ReplyDeleteOlder?? Cheek.
ReplyDeleteWhat an extraordinary film. Jaw dropped throughout. I only knew Julian Wintle from 'The Belstone Fox', Dennis Waterman's screen debut.
I'd no idea that Boston had been immortalised except in 'One of our Aircraft is Missing'.
Certainly the playground. Thought that drilling of soldiers was forbidden by Queen Anne's charter!
In my time as a member of the Combined Cadet Force I regularly drilled in that very spot. From 1959-59 I was the right marker for the RAF section.
Deletespacecadet. I only meant that to remember the Home Guard marching in the yard one would have to be "an older visitor". No offence meant. I was just trying to find a link to the school in the film and I think we agree that I was successful.
ReplyDeleteIrrelevant really, and I'm no expert, but how do you make the 1973 film "The Belstone Fox" as Dennis Waterman's debut? According to IMDB he was active from 1960.
You can find the full text of the Letters Patent of BGS here and you can find the declaration of the Beast Mart here.
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