Old Hitchin on Film – Volume 2

DVD

Richard Whitmore and Sam Hallas

The DVD contains sixteen short films covering events from 1912 to 2012:

• The Priory Fête of 1951
• The 1951 General Election – the result announced outside the Town Hall
• The Gravely Air Disaster 1912
• RAF Henlow & Sir Alan Cobham 1920s – includes the Vickers Virginia
• How Hitchin got an Airfield 1961 – Bill Bowker and Farm Aviation (Hitchin) Ltd
• Brussel Rendezvous 1948 – by Hitchin Ciné Society, life of a local sprout
• Hitchin Hoedown 1952 – BBC Radio at the Town Hall filmed by Harry Cannon
• The Hitchin and Letchworth Carnival 1969
• We Make Gloves – Kir Gloves, Bury Mead Road
• Building Priory Bypass 1982
• Changing Hitchin 1972-1990
• Hitchin then and now – second half of 20th Century
• Sleepy Hollow 1970s ‘slide show’
• Events on St Mary’s Square 1940s and 1950s
• West Hill’s Jubilee Street Party, June 1977
• A Royal Day to Remember June 2012

Total running time 135 minutes. The films include commentary by Richard Whitmore and Sam Hallas.

See the launch at the Queen Mother Theatre.