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-4- The November meeting of The Arts Society, Mid
The Great War Armistice Centenary this Wales & Borders (Formerly NADFAS) takes place
month will involve special commemorations on Thursday the 22nd.
nationally and locally. The finale of the14-18 Venue is the Royal Oak
programme of arts will include events like Hotel, Welshpool, the
Pages of the Sea where people gather on beaches to pay talk will begin at 2.30pm
respects to Britain’s war dead. Carol Ann Duffy’s tribute prompt. The speaker is
poem The Wound in Time will be one of her last works as Jacqueline Hyman,
poet laureate. whose talk is titled What
Did the Egyptians Ever
Here in Leighton and Trelystan as well as the annual Do For Bolton?
services of remembrance, this year the Tree of Non-members are welcome to attend, but a
Remembrance in Leighton church is for people to attach donation of £6 per person towards costs will be
prayers, memories, hopes for peace which will be appreciated.
included in the service on 11th November. For further details contact avril@avrilhart.com or
telephone Dennis on 01938 555 574
After the armistice, the final tragedy of the war was the
huge numbers of servicemen who, having survived the Saturday 3rd November
battlefield died from the devastating effect of the virulent 3:00 PM
‘Spanish flu’ – the rapid spread of the disease is thought
to have been exacerbated by the contagious conditions of The Battle of the Ancre and
those awaiting demobilisation. Just one such individual the Advance of The Tanks
story on page 3 is that of Hugh Elton who was traced by a (1917), is a masterpiece of
relative to Leighton churchyard. British documentary cinema
about the autumn and
By the start of hostilities cameras and film for moving winter stages of the Somme
pictures were well established. It was the first time a war campaign on the Western
had been thoroughly documented for the cinema. There Front. It includes the first
were many famous battle sequences filmed and many ever scenes of tanks in
‘first time’ recordings including the rarely seen but battle.
important Battle of the Ancre – this being shown free at
the Hafren theatre (see opposite). FREE ring to book tickets
However black and white silent moving pictures do look like
ancient history to modern eyes. They Shall Not Grow Old
by director Peter Jackson addresses this issue with a major
restoration of WW1 footage. Using enormous processing
facilities, the film is not only in colour but using teams of
highly skilled lip-readers, the actual dialogue being
spoken at the time has now been recorded and added as a
sound track. By all accounts this is a real insight into the
lives and conditions during the war. Watch out for the full
screening on BBC 1 around 11th November
Friday Monday
9th November 12th November
at 7:30 pm at 7:00 pm
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND
POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
The Great War Armistice Centenary this Wales & Borders (Formerly NADFAS) takes place
month will involve special commemorations on Thursday the 22nd.
nationally and locally. The finale of the14-18 Venue is the Royal Oak
programme of arts will include events like Hotel, Welshpool, the
Pages of the Sea where people gather on beaches to pay talk will begin at 2.30pm
respects to Britain’s war dead. Carol Ann Duffy’s tribute prompt. The speaker is
poem The Wound in Time will be one of her last works as Jacqueline Hyman,
poet laureate. whose talk is titled What
Did the Egyptians Ever
Here in Leighton and Trelystan as well as the annual Do For Bolton?
services of remembrance, this year the Tree of Non-members are welcome to attend, but a
Remembrance in Leighton church is for people to attach donation of £6 per person towards costs will be
prayers, memories, hopes for peace which will be appreciated.
included in the service on 11th November. For further details contact avril@avrilhart.com or
telephone Dennis on 01938 555 574
After the armistice, the final tragedy of the war was the
huge numbers of servicemen who, having survived the Saturday 3rd November
battlefield died from the devastating effect of the virulent 3:00 PM
‘Spanish flu’ – the rapid spread of the disease is thought
to have been exacerbated by the contagious conditions of The Battle of the Ancre and
those awaiting demobilisation. Just one such individual the Advance of The Tanks
story on page 3 is that of Hugh Elton who was traced by a (1917), is a masterpiece of
relative to Leighton churchyard. British documentary cinema
about the autumn and
By the start of hostilities cameras and film for moving winter stages of the Somme
pictures were well established. It was the first time a war campaign on the Western
had been thoroughly documented for the cinema. There Front. It includes the first
were many famous battle sequences filmed and many ever scenes of tanks in
‘first time’ recordings including the rarely seen but battle.
important Battle of the Ancre – this being shown free at
the Hafren theatre (see opposite). FREE ring to book tickets
However black and white silent moving pictures do look like
ancient history to modern eyes. They Shall Not Grow Old
by director Peter Jackson addresses this issue with a major
restoration of WW1 footage. Using enormous processing
facilities, the film is not only in colour but using teams of
highly skilled lip-readers, the actual dialogue being
spoken at the time has now been recorded and added as a
sound track. By all accounts this is a real insight into the
lives and conditions during the war. Watch out for the full
screening on BBC 1 around 11th November
Friday Monday
9th November 12th November
at 7:30 pm at 7:00 pm
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND
POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
