FRI 3 SEP 2021: Free screening of NATIONAL VELVET 🐴🐎🏇 @ShrewsburyHse – Day One of #CWFFF21 – the Charlton and Woolwich Free Film Festival @CWFilmFestival

National Velvet
Shrewsbury House
Friday 3 September 2021
Doors: 6.30pm, Film: 7.30pm

All films are free and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Runtime: 2h 4m
INDOORS
BBFC Rating: U – a family-friendly screening, bring your foals along
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Angela Lansbury

The book’s author, Enid Bagnold, b 1889, lived in Shooters Hill before the First World War – her father was a Colonel in the Royal Engineers at Woolwich Arsenal at the time [Reference]

Watch this space for news from Shrewsbury House about the horse-themed event add-ons. This might include popcorn in feed bags…

What we’re charitably calling the ‘joke’ section…
How do you describe a hungry horse in 4 letters? MTGG

11 was a race horse.
22 was 12.
1111 race.
22112.

More horse jokes here.

Travel options for Shrewsbury House
[Google Maps] [What3Words: start.luxury.silks]
Buses stopping nearby: 89 (N89), 244, 486
Car parking can be reserved for blue badge holders (venue has a ramp and wheelchair-accessible loo on ground floor). [Contact Shrewsbury House]
Plan a journey with Citymapper (free online and phone app)