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Talbot House - A Home from Home


Peter Gill as Arthur Pettifer


During the Great War, Talbot House in Poperinge, Belgium, a few short miles behind the front line, became a haven for thousands of allied troops - a 'home from home' where they enjoyed some home comforts and remembered the men that they really were.

The house was named after Gilbert Talbot, brother of senior army chaplain Neville Talbot, who was killed in Belgium in July 1915. Gilbert Talbot is the great, great uncle of adventurer and television presenter ‘Bear’ Grylls who in 1998, at age 23 was the youngest person to have scaled Mount Everest.

 


 

Run by a diminutive chaplain named Tubby Clayton Talbot House became known by its army signaller's code of Toc H and ultimately would be the inspiration for the association with that name.

Written, directed and starring Peter and aimed at a family audience, this feelgood and moving play gives a brief taste of the history of the house and with the aid of poetry and music from the Great War, the atmosphere that was felt by the troops that visited it.



Talbot House

Andy Meller as Tubby Clayton

 

 
UPCOMING TOUR DATES

Thursday 28 April 2011
The Leatherhead Theatre

Thursday 23 June 2011
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Thursday 7 July 2011
Old Joint Stock Theatre

Friday 8 July 2011
Old Joint Stock Theatre

Friday 11 November 2011
Helmsley Arts Centre

Thursday 24 November 2011
The Spa Centre, Leamington Spa

Saturday 10 November 2012
Huntingdon Hall, Worcester

  

For further information on booking this show telephone Beyond Eternity Promotions Ltd on: 01242 587776

or email: info@beyondeternitypromotions.com

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Talbot House CD

£6.00  inc U.K. p&p

EXCERPTS FROM 'TALBOT HOUSE - A HOME FROM HOME'

By Peter Gill

  1. Talbot House
  2. My Little Grey Home in the West
  3. In Flanders Fields
  4. Medley : I Wore a Tunic / When Very Lights Are Shining / When this Lousy War is Over
  5. Medley : Mademoiselle from Armentiere / It's a Long Way To Tipperary / Pack Up Your Troubles / My Bonnie
  6. The Spirit
  7. If You Were The Only Girl in the World
  8. Cheerio
  9. Keep The Home Fires Burning
  10. Tubby's letter to Mrs Forrest
  11. Follow me 'ome
  12. For The Fallen
  13. Keep The Home Fires Burning (piano solo)
  14. If You Were The Only Girl in the World (piano solo)
  15. My Little Grey Home in the West (piano solo)