Magical mystery tour heads for West Malling


DO you have any memories of the Beatles’ famous visit to West Malling in 1967 during the making of “The Magical Mystery Tour”?


The event caused an enormous stir in the area at the time with many local people witnessing the antics of the Fab Four and even acting as film extras.


Beatles historian Keith Gray is organising a weekend reunion of fans next April and has linked up with businessman Tim Baldock who runs the Moor and Mountain ski shop in the High Street.


A replica of the magical mystery tour bus will bring fans from Newquay, where part of the film was shot, to West Malling. A similar journey was created in 2007 for the 40th anniversary of the filming.


Keith is compiling a memory book which will be published next year and Tim will be happy to pass material on to him.


Tim, who appears in the anniversary memories film was an extra in the Beatles cult movie and remembers when Ringo Starr walked into Baldocks clothes shop and bought a pair of jeans and a pink shirt – all for the equivalent of £1.65.


If anyone has any memories, photographs or films, contact Tim on 01732 529637 or tim@moorandmountain.com


The gift of


a quilt A COLOURFUL quilt which has been made by


members of the Craft and Chat group at St James’s Centre, East Malling, will be given to an Olympic team.


The quilt includes designs based on the front doors of some of the people involved with a border of their handprints.


It has been sent to "The Gift of Quilts" - the organisation who are responsible for


coordinating all the hundreds of quilts from around the country and then passing them over to the Olympics, where one will be given to each team.


The work will be exhibited at


The Stitch and Craft show at London Olympia next March and will also feature in a commemorative book and at the opening ceremony of the games.


The group will eventually find out which team their quilt has gone to and then where that team has donated it after the games.


OUTSTANDING MUSIC AT MALLING


After the enthusiastic response from children and adults to the inaugural Music@Malling Festival, it has been decided to hold a second festival next year from September 28 to 30. Tom Kemp, a London-based professional musician who went to school in West Malling and whose inspiration the festival was, will again be the artistic director.


The first day of this year's three day festival, saw more than 600 children from local schools attend performances of “Peter and the Wolf” at St Mary's Church, West Malling, and hear amazing new compositions based on musical ideas from the children themselves, all woven together into new stories by Matthew Sharp.


The reception was fantastic and the schools programme will again be at the heart of the 2012 Festival.


Mozart, Mahler and Mark Anthony Turnage were the composers featured in the concerts at St Mary's, Pilsdon, St Lawrence’s at Mereworth and Mere House given by Tom Kemp's Chamber Domaine and the Finzi Quartet. Mark Anthony Turnage, one of the world's leading composers, was present throughout and took part in a "meet the composer" session with Tom.


Sponsors included Brookline Coaches, TMBC, Malling Action Partnership, the Malling Memorial Institute, West Malling Parish Council, MDFAS and the Malling Society.


*A Christmas Music@Malling "special" with the professional musicians from Chamber Domaine will be held at St Mary's Church, West Malling, on Saturday, December 17.


The decision to hold the one-off candle-lit concert was taken after the success of the first Music@Malling Festival this autumn and the public's enthusiastic response to it.


It is hoped the the pre Christmas concert will help to keep up the momentum to make Malling a centre for musical excellence.


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