The Village on the Wall
Woodgreen is a small village eight miles south of Salisbury, on the edge of the New Forest. There was a time when they used to have country dancing on the common there, when a travelling press went the rounds at cider-making time and when the young girls always went to Sunday School wearing their best frilly bonnets.
Times have changed, but on the walls of the village hall time has stood still. For here, 40 years ago, two young artists, ROBERT BAKER and TED PAYNE , painted some remarkable murals of the life of Woodgreen.
The two artists, and many of the villagers who appear in the murals, tell the story of how they came to be painted and what village life was like then.
Film editor NORMAN CARR Producer STEPHEN PEET