…but, at the risk of sounding cliched, the end of one thing is just the beginning of another. We have had such fun over the past year with our audiences, and the cinema has filled with laughter and even tears on many occassions. Our audiences have seen ghosts of themselves on celluloid from 50 years ago, [...]
The Vintage Mobile Cinema will hit the streets for the first time in 35 years on 15th May, when it will be outside the Museum in the Square in Barnstaple all day, screening ‘A Tale of Two Rivers’, a 20 minute archive film about the Taw & Torridge Estuary. The bus will be there all [...]
The Vintage Mobile Cinema has been a long time coming. Ollie Halls has been working at it for over four years now, fighting to find enough time here and there to undertake the mammoth operation that has been the restoration. There is literally enough blood, sweat and tears soaked into that vehicle. With so much behind [...]
History is often just under our feet, even if we don’t realise it. Last November we all heard about the collapse of several bridges in Cumbria after devastating floods. I was astounded at the force of nature that could bring down something that had stood for so long and was so well engineered.
Little did I [...]
