'dad's Army' Revisited

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A while back I started a thread to identify the concertina player in a Dad's Army episode (The Godiva Affair) where the platoon were practising a Morris dance. The player was soon identified (of course!). Just recently the Rumford Morris Men were approached by the Thurrock Court players who were going to put on a stage version of three Dad's Army episodes, including 'Godiva', and wanted help to put together a dance to perform on stage. We helped them with a shortened and simplified version of Young Collins. However they required a musician. The upshot of all this is that I appeared as Private Day and played my concertina for their dance at the end of last week. Not only do I find this a curious coincidence, but I feel that I was carrying on a tradition of having a concertina in a production of this episode.

 

The performance went very well (only a few wrong notes!) and the players were very convincing in their roles as Mainwairing, Wilson, Jones et al.

[Hilary]

The morris side in the Dad's Army episode was Staploe Hundred, our squire was one of them - small world.

[Stephen Chambers]

The morris side in the Dad's Army episode was Staploe Hundred, our squire was one of them ...

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And the concertina player, as I said before, was Peter Honri, grandson of the renowned Music-Hall duet player Percy Honri.