{"id":114,"date":"2020-11-03T21:14:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:00:14","slug":"1951-05-gds-mas-bit-obrass-ronald-gow-1938","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/?page_id=114","title":{"rendered":"1951-05 (GDS) Ma\u2019s Bit O\u2019Brass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ronald Gow\u2019s play was based on the film \u201cLancashire Luck\u201d, and concerns the father of a Lancashire family winning a large sum of money.  With this windfall he buys a small tea-shop in a more upper-class section of their town, and generally lives the high life.  His daughter falls in love with an aristocratic visitor to the shop, but her mother stands in her way, until all is happily resolved by the end<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward Frost produces.  Gerald Kidney joins, as does Eric Wyke, doing electrics and lighting: he\u2019ll stay for 14 years.  The play was performed for the Festival of Britain, to celebrate the centenary of the Great Exhibition of 1851<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The proceeds went towards building \u201cthe new community hall\u201d in the village.\u00a0\u00a0The need for one had been suggested back in 1945, and in 1950, the Grenoside Community Association was set up to progress this ambitious plan. It will not come to fruition until 1966, and at this stage the Community Association had just \u00a33,500 in the bank (in today\u2019s money), so GDS\u2019 contributions would have been important<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We haven\u2019t found a programme yet, and have only one photo so far<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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1951-05 (GDS) Ma's Bit o'Brass 1<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ronald Gow\u2019s play was based on the film \u201cLancashire Luck\u201d, and concerns the father of a Lancashire family winning a large sum of money.  With this windfall he buys a small tea-shop in a more upper-class section of their town, and generally lives the high life.  His daughter falls in love with an aristocratic visitor to the shop, but her mother stands in her way, until all is happily resolved by the end Edward Frost produces.  Gerald Kidney joins, as does Eric Wyke, doing electrics and lighting: he\u2019ll…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/1180"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}