Passport to Pimlico
A free cinema viewing of the famous & much loved Ealing Studios Film “Passport to Pimlico” is to be given by Museum of London Docklands., at the Wilberforce Theatre.
On: Sunday , September 26, 2010, 14 :00
At: The Wilberforce Theatre
Price: Free.
When some local children roll a tractor tyre down a hole, it sets off an undetected bomb left over from the Second World War in Miramont Gardens in the Pimlico district of London. The explosion reveals a buried cellar containing artwork, coins, jewellery and an ancientparchment document. Professor Hatton-Jones (Margaret Rutherford) authenticates it as a royal charter of Edward IV that ceded the house and its estates to Charles VII (“the Rash”), the last Duke of Burgundy, when he sought refuge there several centuries ago after being presumed dead at the Battle of Nancy. As the charter had never been revoked, Pimlico is legally part of Burgundy……
“We’ve always been English and we’ll always be English; and it’s precisely because we are English that we’re sticking up for our right to be Burgundians!”
A much loved film not to be missed
