Sir John Betjeman at Thorpe House Prep School in Gerrards Cross / Chalfont St Peter Buckinghamshire скачать в хорошем качестве

Sir John Betjeman at Thorpe House Prep School in Gerrards Cross / Chalfont St Peter Buckinghamshire

From the autobiographical film 'Summoned by Bells' made in 1976 and based on Betjeman's volume of autobiographical verse published under the same title in 1960. Having failed his degree at Magdalen College in Oxford Betjeman spent a short time as cricket master at Thorpe House school in the 1920s and this film features him revisiting and reminiscing about his time at the school. There is some brief 1976 footage of the school along with period photos . Betjeman is supposed to have based other works on his time In Gerrards Cross including 'Indoor Games near Newbury' inspired by a house party in Orchehill Avenue. Whilst referred to as a school in Gerrards Cross Thorpe House is actually within the Parish of Chalfont St Peter the confusion caused by the fact that Gerrards Cross Station was originally known as Gerrards Cross and The Chalfonts (including Chalfont St Peter, Chalfont Common, Little Chalfont and Chalfont St Giles) .