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Saturday 28th May 2011
In the pub that we all lovingly remember as Grafton's
(now known as "The Strutton Arms")
we held "A Grand Day Out" to celebrate the very first Goon Show. We unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark the occasion and had an afternoon of fun, food, and jollity inside the pub afterwards with celebrity guests.
Special thanks to Jeffrey Holland, Jon Glover, Peter Stanford, Phil Ladd & Dave Withall for the wonderful performance that they gave us of Goon Show No: 1, to Tim Watson (his grandad was Jimmy Grafton) for the sound system and to Les Drew for the script and the sound effects.
For the photos, see our Facebook page here;
http://www.facebook.com/TheGSPS#!/media/set/?set=a.225145850830687.66839.216095068402432
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Our Chairman, John Repsch, along with Les Drew, our other leading light, had both been busy over the past few months chatting to amongst others, the current tenants of Grafton's to see if we couldn't persuade them to re-visit their Goon heritage.
(If you recall, the place was gutted some years ago and turned into an Irish Theme pub, Finnegan's Wake then it was re-named again a few years later as The Strutton Arms). Well the current landlord Dave, was very keen and offered us every assistance, so the 28th it was.
One of John's first tasks was then to make arrangements for a Blue Plaque* to be created so that on the day we could have a grand unveiling. The cost of having our Plaque designed and manufactured was somewhere in the region of £1100 and what with the money already spent by us on rescuing the "Elton John Scripts", the old coffers are now a bit bare.
Donations were collected on the day which raised £173.00 and the raffle made about £60.00, so as you can see, there's still a long way to go. So please, join our Online Appeal and donate as much as you can...
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Please send your donation via post to our Treasurer, Nigel Bush at his address on the Contacts Page.
Make your cheque/postal order payable to;
"The Goon Show Preservation Society"
Or use the Society's Paypal account via Paypal.com using our logon name which is gsps@blueyonder.co.uk
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On the left, the current James Grafton, with his sister Sally centre, and her son Tim on the right at one of our London meetings. Great fun they were too. They regalled us with all sorts of stories about the showbiz folk that frequented their dad's pub. Uncle Harry, Uncle Spike, Uncle Peter, Uncle Mike, as well as many others including Tony Hancock, Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Connor and so on. Great days...
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* It is not strictly speaking a 'blue plaque' as they are usually put up by the Local Authority, so we are had our own designed, just thought you'd all like to know that. See it on the Facebook photos.
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