Events:

River of Life screenings at Flicks in the Sticks

The programme of archive shorts showing in front of the feature films at Borderlines Film Festival

A Little Wartime Secret (2006)

Little Dewchurch Fri 23 March 8:00
Garway Fri 30 March 7:30

In 2005 a dusty trunk full of old black and white film, unseen since the 1940s, was discovered. The films show life at the Barronia Metals Factory in Hereford as the workers do their bit for the war effort, making fuel valves for all of Britain's RAF fleet during the second world war - at what was �a secret place'.

England Their England: Inheritance

Central TV, Colour, 1987, 30 mins

Brilley Thurs 29 March 7:30

Asks what the future holds for primary school children in rural Herefordshire, children like Andrew Bayliss from a farming family in Brilley. This insightful documentary looks at the changing nature of agriculture and the reality away from the picture postcard. Filmed around Brilley, Arrowview, Kington and Eardisley.

Herefordshire in the News

ATV, 1960s and 1970s

Kingsland Fri 23 March 7:30
Leintwardine (Olde Tavern) Fri 23 March 8:00
Gorsley Fri 30 March 7:30 (Hereford Doctor and Olde Tavern)
Leintwardine Fri 30 March 6:30 (Hereford Doctor)
Garway Sun 1 April 7:30 (Wassailing, Hereford Doctor and The Steeple)
Leominster Sun 1 April 7:30 (Hereford Doctor and The Steeple)
Ledbury Sun 1 April 7:00

A collection of new items from Midland Montage and ATV Today featuring wassailing the orchard, a Hereford doctor using a pony and trap to do his rounds, a visit to the Olde Tavern in Kington run by 80 year old Jones sisters, a very 70s debate on whether to erect a statute to a Hereford Bull in the town, and a young reporter making the perilous climb up Peterchurch steeple.

King George V

1970, National Coal Board & Bulmers

Gorsley Fri 23 March 7:30
Bosbury Sat 24 March 7:30
Ledbury Sun 25 March 7:00
Burghill Tues 27 March 7:00
Garway Tues 27 March 7:30
Leintwardine Tues 27 March 8:00
Leominster Fri 30 March 7:30
Ross Sat 31 March 7:00

The story of the famous steam engine that found a home in Hereford in the 1970s. A must see for all enthusiasts of steam locomotives, with footage from the earliest days of steam.

Of Cider and Apples

1960s, Cider Museum

Little Dewchurch Fri 23 March 8:00
Ross Sat 24 March 7:00
Garway Sun 1 April 7:30

A look at the history of Bulmer's cider making, and some of the colourful characters involved.

Real Life on the Black Hill (2007)

Dir: Naomi Vera-Sanso, 2007, 10 mins

Clifford Sat 24 March 8:00
Gorsley Tues 27 March 7:30
Michaelchurch Escley Wed 28 March 8:00
Ross Wed 28 March 8:00
Ledbury Thurs 29 March 7:30
Ballingham & Bolsone Sat 31 March 7:30
Leominster Sat 31 March 7:30

In the 1950s a housekeeper on an isolated farm at Crasswell on the slopes of the Black Hill picked up a cine camera and started filming farming life as it happened around her: haymaking, shearing, pony sales, village shows, shepherds collecting their sheep off the mountain, and the ever popular summer rodeos. Interviews with the filmmaker and farmers who remember the old ways are interwoven with the original cine film.

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