Kilts at Swanage Folk Festival

**Hamish** · 12th September 07, 03:44 AM

Ah! Swanage - my childhood holiday playground (although we were not permitted on the actual beach during WWII). My Grandparents lived at Holton Heath and I had step-aunts/uncles/cousins in Wareham, Sandford and Stoborough. My parents were married, and I was christened, in Lytchett Minster. We would take the steam train (pre-Dr. Beeching!) from Wareham, through Corfe Castle to Swanage for family days by the sea since, in those days, none of us had cars! We would climb up out of the town to picnic near The Great Globe (is it still there, I wonder?)

Alas, I have no relatives living in the area now, but my good friend, actor Edward Fox and his family, has a retreat at Steeple with whom I am able to stay.

I was unaware of a Swanage Folk Festival - have attended the fabulous Sidmouth one many times, but not in recent years alas. I must look out for info. on Swanage in 2008 and try to get there.

Thank you, Pleater, for sparking off some wonderfully sunny memories.

**Kid Cossack** · 12th September 07, 04:08 AM

Originally Posted by Hamish

Alas, I have no relatives living in the area now, but my good friend, actor Edward Fox and his family, has a retreat at Steeple with whom I am able to stay.

Thank you, Pleater, for sparking off some wonderfully sunny memories.

Wow! You know "Lt. Francis Farewell"? I thought he was wonderful in Shaka Zulu, and he's always impressed me with his acting "chops" (as we say). Hamish, you should write a book!

**macwilkin** · 12th September 07, 04:31 AM

Originally Posted by Kid Cossack

Wow! You know "Lt. Francis Farewell"? I thought he was wonderful in Shaka Zulu, and he's always impressed me with his acting "chops" (as we say). Hamish, you should write a book!

I was thinking of Gen. Sir Brian Horrocks in "A Bridge too Far" myself.

"Gentlemen, this is a story to tell your grandchildren -- and mightly bored they'll be!"

T.

**Hamish** · 13th September 07, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by Kid Cossack

Wow! You know "Lt. Francis Farewell"? I thought he was wonderful in Shaka Zulu, and he's always impressed me with his acting "chops" (as we say). Hamish, you should write a book!

But it was "The Day of the Jackal" that made Edward a household name. Yes, I've known him and his wife, Joanna David, for years. Their daughter, Emilia, is now an accomplished actress in her own right and I clearly remember the excitement of her birth!