Monthly Archive: October, 2019

1922 This was the year of the Great Flu epidemic which killed so many people, my grandfather was one of those.  He left behind an expectant widow who already had 4 children under the age of 11. She had to go to a charitable organisation to beg for financial help as sadly there were no social services in those day...

The play ‘Seven Days Leave’ The Great War was over and people wanted a bit of fun in their lives again, audiences wanted  to see  romance, humor and excitement on the stage to brighten up their lives. ‘Seven Days Leave’ by Walter Howard  met every one of those expectation. Howard wrote this play “to please his brave young soldier son’....