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	Welcome to the best place for fans of Dad’s Army - Walmington-on-Sea itself. If you want to find information of Dad’s Army news, events, books, or videos they are are all here. Alternatively take the town trail at Visit Walmington or dip into the thoughts of the gallant captain at the Peacetime Diaries of George Mainwaring.


	Pick of the Crop


	Get the best of recent Dad’s Army DVDs and CDs.




	Dad’s Army the Complete Series 5 on DVD


	Dad’s Army the Complete Series 4 on DVD


	Dad’s Army the Complete Series 3 on DVD


	Music From Dad’s Army - 26 tracks by artists such as Billy Cotton, Henry Hall and Gracie Fields as heard in the series


	The Very Best vol 1: Phil Jupitus presents his favourite episodes from the radio series - The Man and the Hour, My British Buddy, Time on My Hands and a Soldier’s Farewell


	On the Trail of Dad’s Army

In 2004 Thetford Town Council in association with the Dad’s Army Appreciation Society launched the Thetford Dad’s Army Trail: a planned walking route around the town of Thetford, in Norfolk, which was the location of many of the scenes in Dad’s Army.

The trail includes the sites of many of the series most popular episodes including Mill Lane (The Deadly Attachment), Nether Row (many episodes, but infamously the knicker-search in Man Hunt) and the Guildhall (Time on My Hands).

Anyone can enjoy the trail at no cost and Thetford Town Council have now launched a small website devoted to it. You can download a copy of the four-page leaflet giving full details of the trail here.

Platoon - to the Thetford town trail - Quick march!


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	Mainwaring Writes

“It was necessary to curb some of Mr Jones’ more robust ideas for fund raising. I am not at all convinced that standing at the corner of the High Street and Eastgate Road with fixed bayonets is necessarily the way forward.”

The words, written in 1948, ring out over the decades as the secrets of George Mainwaring’s life in the period of post-war austerity are revealed in the Peacetime Diaries of George Mainwaring - a Walmington-on-Line exclusive.


	Arthur Lowe’s Real War

One of the reasons that Dad's Army's carried real conviction, inspite of the laughs, was that pretty much everyone involved in its making had first-hand wartime experience. This was certainly true of Arthur Lowe who had served in the army before and throughout the Second World War. His war years are given extensive coverage in Graham Lord's biography of Lowe. Stephen Lowe, Arthur's son, also recounted his father's war years in his biography; and his account was published in Best of British magazine which you can read here.


	Last Updated 22 Jan, 2006