of the forces sweetheart and her extraordinary career in showbusiness, but also her private passions and pastimes. she was a prolific painter. so, we ve got together here, obviously, performance costumes and things from her public role, which people are really familiar with, but also things like the paintings and personal items, give you a sense of what she was like, perhaps, when she was just doing things for herself at home. this is a real coup for the ditchling museum of art and craft. its picture perfect location is in the east sussex village where dame vera lived for the last a0 years of her life. it s clear that she took great care to preserve items that tell the story notjust of her life, but also of the times. she wore this khaki shirt and shorts while on a three month tour in 19114. her visit to the 14th army in burma became the stuff of legend. it was her idea to go there, and she was banned from writing anything down in case it fell
its picture perfect location is in the east sussex village where dame vera lived for the last 40 years of her life. it s clear that she took great care to preserve items that tell the story notjust of her life, but also of the times. she wore this khaki shirt and shorts while on a three month tour in 1944. her visit to the 14th army in burma became the stuff of legend. it was her idea to go there, and she was banned from writing anything down in case it fell into enemy hands. but she kept this small secret diary. i took my little diary and my little pencil, and you canjust about see it, tiny little writing. slept on stretcher, oh, yes, balanced on two kitchen chairs. a rotten night. i should think so. for somebody of 27, 28 to be able to do that in those days and even in these days was enormously unusual.
of her personal possessions shows not just the story we all know of the forces sweetheart and her extraordinary career in showbusiness, but also her private passions and pastimes. she was a prolific painter. when we started out to put this exhibition together, we wanted to be able to talk about dame vera as a kind of whole person, the private woman, as well as the public face. so we ve got together here, obviously, performance costumes and things from her public role, which people are really familiar with, but also things like the paintings and personal items, give you a sense of what she was like, perhaps, when she was just doing things for herself at home. this is a real coup for the ditchling museum of art and craft. its picture perfect location is in the east sussex village, where dame vera lived for the last 40 years of her life. it s clear that she took great care to preserve items that tell the story notjust of her life, but also of the times.
of her personal possessions shows not just the story we all know of the forces sweetheart and her extraordinary career in showbusiness, but also her private passions and pastimes. she was a prolific painter. so we ve got together here, obviously, performance costumes and things from her public role, which people are really familiar with, but also things like the paintings and personal items, give you a sense of what she was like, perhaps, when she was just doing things for herself at home. this is a real coup for the ditchling museum of art and craft. its picture perfect location is in the east sussex village where dame vera lived for the last 40 years of her life. it s clear that she took great care to preserve items that tell the story notjust of her life, but also of the times. she wore this khaki shirt and shorts while on a three month tour in 1944. her visit to the 14th army in burma became the stuff of legend. it was her idea to go there,
found dead last wednesday after going for a run along the canal. there were vigils across this country and beyond, in support and solidarity but also in nervous anxiety. if that can happen here, where our women safe? ireland is now the latest play is trying to answer that question. really sombre mood here but be in no doubt, there is concern, a huge police operation under way, an investigation involving over 50 detectives in the irish police say they are making progress, they have a suspect they want to question but that is somebody who is in hospital, who has been there since the day after ashling was killed so they are waiting for the right time to question that suspect. they say they want to have an anybody who saw a man around this village last wednesday in a black tracksuit with white stripes. wednesday in a black tracksuit with white stripes- three people are now known to have