The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard Training Manual: As Used by Dad's Army

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Funnily enough, we always like to joke that the land you can see from Hunstanton cliffs across The Wash is Holland… Hunstanton Among the rest of the cast were Clive Dunn (who simultaneously drew in a different audience as the chart-topping pop star ‘Grandad’), Hattie Jacques’ former husband, John le Mesurier and a baby-faced Ian Lavender, who has since resurfaced as Derek in EastEnders. Dad’s Army, Season 3, Episode 1: “ The Armoured Might of Lance-Corporal Jones“, first broadcast 1th September, 1969, BBC. Dad's Army' chief warden Hodges' famous catchphrase was "Put that light out!", which has a curiously familiar feel in these days of municipal energy conservation. In homage to this, local environmental activists have adapted the slogan for a campaign to have the bulbs used in the seaside town's promenade illuminations replaced with low-energy alternatives - "Put that incandescent light out!" is their cry. 5. Green transport The series followed the adventures and misadventures of members of a fictional platoon of the Home Guard - a (real) WWII volunteer army that was formed from those ineligible for conscription by age, minor physical inability or occupation, to defend the United Kingdom from German invasion following the fall of France.

The book "Dad's Army, The Defence of a Front Line English Village", describes Walmington-on-Sea as being situated in Sussex, but there is undisputed evidence to disprove this. The town's Police Station is seen to be under the jurisdiction of Kent Constabulary and, from the pens of the authors themselves, "Walmington-on-Sea, set on that strip of Kent coast which endured so much". The town was a popular seaside resort, with a High Street lined with shops, which supplied the inhabitants and visitors with life's essentials and some of its luxuries. The Timothy Whites pharmacy chain was taken over by Boots in 1968 (the year the Dad's Army TV show began). Facing stiff competition from supermarkets, the chain pharmacies of the 21st century have been compelled to diversify, with larger branches resembling walk-in health centres with in-store opticians, dentistry and orthopaedic surgeries, in addition to sophisticated user- operated body-mass index machines. Such branches now often contain considerable amounts of state-of-the-art medical tech. 8. Joe Walker's store rooms Weybourne railway station has been a popular film/TV location for many years. It is perhaps best known as Walmington-on-Sea in the classic Dad’s Army episode The Royal Train. It also featured as Arcady in the TV series Love on a Branch Line (1994) starring Leslie Phillips and Maria Aitkin, in A Warning To the Curious (see above), and in Stephen Poliakoff’s The Lost Prince (2003). Winterton-on-SeaThe Walmington-on-Sea APC during presentation to the Platoon. There was a total of fifteen pistol ports. The quiet and unassuming town became vibrant and violent eighteenth century New York for the film Revolution (1985), starring Al Pacino, Nastassja Kinski and Donald Sutherland, with King’s Street transformed. Directed by Hugh Hudson, the film proved to be a massive flop.

I loved Gorleston, which is a town I did not know. It reminded me a lot of Liverpool, so it was perfect for a film that tried to summon up the spirit of The Beatles. It was a working port and you still see evidence of that but if you look the other way, you then encounter one of Britain’s most remarkable beaches and I am amazed that no-one seems to know about it.’ Holkham

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Farmland in the village was transformed into a North Korean paddy field for the Bond film Die Another Day (2002), starring Pierce Brosnan as 007. So what is it about film directors thinking Norfolk’s stunning countryside looks like Communist paddy fields? Cley-next-the-Sea