Category Archives: Patrick’s Words

Forgotten British Films…

I Know Where I’m Going 1945 A slightly odd movie with wonderful scenery and a warm feeling to it. It holds excellent camera work from the director, writer and producers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and features Wendy Hiller in … Continue reading

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The Shriving of Miss Esme Stamp…

Written and serialized by Patrick George Callaghan Episode 12…Exile There were many excuses that Constance made to herself in the years of her life, none so, for her behaviour at that time and in the months that followed.  Soon after, … Continue reading

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Forgotten British Films…

Good Morning Boys 1937 (US: Where There’s a Will) Not so much a forgotten film as more of a cult film as Will Hay battles with the boys of St. Michael’s school in their pursuits of drinking, smoking and gambling. … Continue reading

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Remembering “The Darling Buds of May”

Pop Larkin’s Rolls Royce, the picture was taken at the Darling Buds of May Classic Car Rally held each year in Kent – The Garden of England! The famous TV series was set in 1953 in Kent, and portrays a … Continue reading

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From My September 2012 Blog…

The Leighton Buzzard Railway… It was a great ‘day out’ when the family visited the Leighton Buzzard narrow-gauge railway in Bedfordshire UK recently. Built back in 1919, from materials surplus from the First World War battlefields railways, to carry sand … Continue reading

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Maryon Park, Woolwich, London…

Maryon Park was the main setting for the 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni’s cult movie ‘Blow-Up’ featuring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave. David Hemmings played Thomas, a top London fashion photographer captivated by his photographs of a murder, whilst Vanessa Redgrave is the woman at … Continue reading

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Forgotten British Films…

THE CARD 1952 A really delightful comedy romp with Alec Guinness in the lead character as the son of a washerwoman and set in The English Potteries of 1890. He is a young man who lives on his wits and … Continue reading

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Forgotten British Films…

A Kid For Two Farthings 1955 Beautifully shot in London’s Petticoat Lane Market of the 50s, it’s a well crafted film by the famous director Carol Reed and based on the novel by Wolf Mankowitz who also scripted the movie. … Continue reading

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The Calthorpe Project…

Once more Adrian and myself spent a relaxing hour at The Calthorpe Project just before making our routine visit to the Eastman Dental Hospital built by George Eastman of the Kodak Company for the research and treatment of dental health. … Continue reading

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Dunstable’s Kite Gala…

We made a flying visit, excuse the pun! to Dunstable’s Kite Flying Gala in Bedfordshire UK held on the Chiltern Hills on Sunday, and sampled some quite respectable sausages and burgers, aside from the dozens of spectacular Kites there were … Continue reading

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