Permission to look back, sir

The butcher's shop, A. Warner, needed very few alterations to turn it into Corporal Jones' butcher's shop and what is now The Crown, was 'made over' to become the bank where Captain Mainwaring was manager.
John Pither, who runs Rosemary's Gallery, recalls that filming coincided with the switch to decimal currency and that this confused his wife when one of the Dad's Army actors came into the shop, which was a newsagent's at the time.
"James Beck (who played Walker the spiv) came into to buy some polo mints. My wife went all silly because he was a film star and it was the first Monday of decimal currency, so she couldn't convert the money. He said something suitably spivvy about 'doing a deal' ", said Mr Pither.
"When they were filming the actors marching through the village, everyone was trapped in the shops, but everyone was much more tolerant in those days, even though the village was busier then."
Mr Pither's brother-in-law, parish councillor Gordon Patrick, who runs the old post office, remembers the village being chaotic during filming, but says that there was plenty of good will from the shopkeepers and residents.
She said: "They controlled the traffic flow, although there was a lot less traffic than there is now.
"There was a lot of following in the village, all the shops were involved and met the actors and lots of people went to see the premiere in Leicester Square," he said.
Dad's Army remains one of the most popular television comedies of all time and even in its 40th anniversary year, is still the only programme from the 1960s that commands a prime time repeat.
On Sunday, October 12, several of the surviving actors from the film and series attended an anniversary lunch at London's Grosvenor House, organised by the Heritage Foundation, whose chairman is David Graham, who lives in Great Kingshill. Mr Graham said that among the guests were the writers David Croft and Jimmy Perry and actors Clive Dunn (Corporal Jones), Bill Pertwee (ARP warden), Frank Williams (vicar), Ian Lavender (Private Pike) and Pamela Cundell (Corporal Jones' lady friend).
"It was a great thrill and honour to be in the same room as the veteran actors who took part in one of the most successful television sitcoms of all time," said Mr Graham.