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TEWKESBURY STARS ON FILM AND TV The cameras rolled in an atmospheric Tewkesbury bookshop last month - and during the same week the town starred in a travel feature on BBC TV’s popular magazine programme ‘The One Show.’
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Cornell Books, in the High Street, has been chosen as the setting for a brand new short film, ‘The Bookshop.’ The plot traces the story of a shy bookshop owner whose life is changed one day, by a customer who steps into the store and brings him out of his shell. It marks the directing debut of actress Susan Lynch - who appeared in the cult TV series, ‘Killing Eve.’ The main protagonist is played by singer and musician Tim Burgess, who is better known as the lead vocalist for ‘The Charlatans,’ a band which topped the UK album charts in the mid 1990s. Cornell Books, in the High Street, was closed for a few days while filming took place at the start of January. The building - which dates back to the 1500s - was the Wheatsheaf
Cornell Books Inn from the 1930s until the early 1960s, when it became a coffee shop. The signatures of the popular singers The Beverley Sisters (who visited the pub in its latter years) can still be seen on the wall of the passageway leading to the shop. Also at the start of January, Tewkesbury was featured as one of journalist Matt Allwright’s chosen places to visit on the BBC’s huge-
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ly popular ‘One Show.’ Allwright, who is perhaps better known as the presenter of programmes such as ‘Watchdog’ and ‘Rogue Traders,’ spent some time sampling the delights of Tewkesbury during the summer. He tried his hand at making Tewkesbury’s famous mustard balls, visited the abbey where he was greeted by The Reverend Canon Paul Williams, called at Café au Chocolat for a super-
indulgent treat, stayed overnight at the luxurious Tewkesbury Park Hotel and enjoyed an al fresco snack at Back of Avon, before strolling around the Ham. Both the new film and the television feature should provide a welcome boost to the town by promoting it as a tourist destination. Tewkesbury was also seen on the BBC last year in the Antiques Roadshow and Antiques Road Trip series.
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