Watton Society November Meeting
Our November meeting was our annual film night with Phil Slater.
He brought along a selection including: – The Sea Breaks Through – about the 1938 flooding of East Anglia and the work to prevent the tide breaking through again. Some film of work to free a train snowbound on the North Pennines at Bleath Gill in 1955, a 1947 Scout and Guide International Folk Dance Festival in London with Princesses Elizabeth & Margaret along with Lady Baden-Powell, a show of Horses of Austria performing at the Spanish Riding School, then a film about London’s last Tram, by British Transport film, a film of the 1959 Watton Carnival and the unveiling of the Town sign and finishing with Three songs by George Formby.