Postcards from the Front

2007, 45 minutes

Walpole Bay Hotel

Postcards from the Front : tells the story of a group of football fans, who gather every year to importalise the life and times of Wally Lyons, 'the best right boot West Ham and England ever had'. They meet to celebrate his birthday, each bringing with them a piece of Wally Lyons Memorabilia that they have collected over the years. This birthday celebration has been organise by Harry, who has chosen the Walpole Bay Hotel, Margate, because Wally once stayed there in 1952. However that is not the only secret that is to be revealed. The evenings celebrations turn into an ugly?free for all, when a special guest is invited to read? an extert from? a diary written by a woman called Grace Kemp. The diary tells the intimate secrets of a liason between her, Wally and another lady called Patricia Lyle who partook in a threesome in room 25 of the very same hotel. It transpires that peoples memories of Wally Lyons are changed from that point on ..

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