Letter to Stan Attwood from Irlwyn Evans

Letter to Stan Attwood from Irlwyn Evans

A letter written by Irlwyn (Taffy) Evans to Stan Attwood after the filming of the documentary. He discusses in detail the documentary after it was aired. Only the first page of the letter is present.

1969-07-17

One typewritten sheet from a scrapbook

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8, Heol Tyn Y Fron,
Penparcau,
ABERYSTWYTH,
Cardiganshire.
17th July, 1969

Dear Stan,
First of all let me thank you for the letter. it was good hearing from you again and to know that you are all once again united as a family at your new home. Whilst I am writing of reunions, never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that we seven would ever get together again. I am not one to show great emotion but I can assure you that it was wonderful to hear that you and Ruggles has been traced and that we were all to meet once again at Lincoln. Understandably, we have all changed with our own lives to lead but I wish we could have spent a little more time at Lincoln to have a good old natter about the past, present and future.

I have acquired a T.V. Times for you. We were not considered ‘Front Page’ material by the looks of it, but there is however a photograph of us as a group inside, together with a small paragrapgh [sic] giving a little of our history.
The film preview was given at London on 4th July. I was unable to go up but Len did give me a little information over the telephone.it was subsequently televised on all ITV Channels on 15th instant. Although having rather a serious note it appears to have been well received. I mix quite a lot with the people of Aberystwyth and all the comments to date have been more than favourable. We were all rather serious but our mood was somehow appropriate to the subject under discussion. There were some shots which I thought were rather brief. Others then were longer. A particular good scene was the one of you and the family going for a walk. Your wife incidently was the only one shown, apart from a fleeting shot of Freda (Claude’s wife) whose head was partly visible in the shot of Claude in bed. The film also took in your office. The remaining scenes showed you seated at home. Really there were not many long periods given to any one individual as the film jumped from one person to the other continually. It also showed some scenes where one’s voice was superimposed. These scenes were obviously from some old films taken during the war at some Lancaster Squadron.

In one shot of Len he refers to Taffy as being ‘naive and very inexperienced in the ways of the world as regards the Ladies and Beer’. I surrender and offer no further comment. Les also made some comment about the young lad of an engineer who joined us. There was nothing derogatory in anyone’s remarks and I believe it portrayed a very true picture of our lives at that period.

I am sure that you would enjoy the film and I feel somehow that David Naden owes it to you to make some arrangement to enable you to have a viewing of it.

There has been some haggling going on over the fee we should receive