{"id":3255,"date":"2024-04-28T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T14:57:29","slug":"75th-anniversary-of-passport-to-pimlico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/04\/28\/75th-anniversary-of-passport-to-pimlico\/","title":{"rendered":"75th anniversary of &#8216;Passport to Pimlico&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/pimlico-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3259\" width=\"268\" height=\"359\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28 April marks the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the UK release of Passport to Pimlico, a 1949 Ealing comedy starring Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Charles Hawtrey and Hermione Baddeley, among a host of other well-known names at he time. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/03\/pimlico-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3260\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that leads to a small part of&nbsp;Pimlico being declared a legal part of the House of Burgundy and, therefore, exempt from the&nbsp;post-war rationing or other bureaucratic restrictions active in Britain at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a lover of Ealing comedies, the film is a delight. However, the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of my <strong>favourite<\/strong> Ealing comedy will be coming in June \u2026 watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 April marks the 75th anniversary of the UK release of Passport to Pimlico, a 1949 Ealing comedy starring Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Charles Hawtrey and Hermione Baddeley, among a host of other well-known names at he time. The story concerns the unearthing of treasure and documents that leads to a small part of&nbsp;Pimlico being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/04\/28\/75th-anniversary-of-passport-to-pimlico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;75th anniversary of &#8216;Passport to Pimlico&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}