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- Author: Mark Stay
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THE MANY MERITS OF GEORGE FORMBY
Faye and Bertie were chatting on the bus home when a plane dropped out of the
sky.
They had spent the day in Canterbury. Any other year and this would have
been the Saint Irene’s Bell-Ringers’ Tower summer outing. A jolly old time
visiting bell towers all over Kent, ringing their bells, trying new methods and,
most importantly, quang local beers and ciders and scong homemade scones
and cake. Alas, since the government’s ban on bell-ringing in June, their plans
were scotched. It had been suggested by Mr Hodgson, the tower captain, that
they still visit the towers, but ring handbells instead. This was greeted with much
grizzling, not least from Faye.
‘Handbells ain’t proper ringing,’ she had said, with many murmurs of
agreement from the rest of the tower band. ‘It’s like asking someone to play a
concert on a grand piano and then handing them a bleedin’ accordion. It’s not
the same.’
Mr Hodgson then suggested ringing tied bells – where the clapper is tied up
so that it doesn’t make a sound – which they tried for a couple of practices at
Saint Irene’s, but to pull on a rope and not even get the satisfaction of a bell
actually ringing was deemed completely pointless by all concerned.
When it also transpired that there would be no beer, cider, cake or scones at
the bell towers on the itinerary it was clear that the district outing needed a
rethink.
Ideas were put into a hat, then put to a vote, and then ignored and argued
over until a compromise was reached whereby Mr Hodgson pouted until he got
his own way and they all went to Canterbury for the day. Mr Hodgson arranged
for a tour of the bells of the cathedral, and he promised that the city would have
plenty of beer, cider, cake and scones in its pubs and bakeries.
The day had been a success, topped o with the glamour of the silver screen
when they all went to see the new George Formby ick, Let George Do It!, at the
Friars Cinema. For Bertie – possibly the world’s biggest fan of the banjoleleplaying comedy croonster – this was the cherry on top, and he didn’t stop
jabbering about it all the way home.
‘I think my favourite part was the bit at the end when he went ying out of
the torpedo tube,’ Bertie said, snorting a laugh. He and Faye were sitting in their
favourite seats on the bus. Top deck, right at the front. Before the war they
would sit here to enjoy the view, though these days all the windows on the bus
were covered with anti-blast netting, a mesh that would protect any passenger
from shards of glass if a Luftwae bomb dropped nearby. The only view
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