Cast

• Emmie Cartwright - Amy Abbott

• Charles Cartwright - Reg Stockton

• 'Dad' - Ronald Allen

• His Mate - Ronnie Caress

• Alice - Margaret Holden

• Little Dunne - Sydney A. Brown

• Weaver - Eric Ellis

• Rosa Cleaver - Doreen Mullen

• Jennie Perks - Emmie Pimlott

• Ernie Brittle - John Wiltshire

• Joe - Edward Fielding

• Harry Widdowson - Wiliam Allman

• The Vicar - Alan Ferguson

• Grace Abbott - Brenda Kennedy

• Maud Aucott - Joyce Winning

• Elsie Beardmore - Judith Kinsey

• Vera Middleton - Doreen Wyton

• David Cartwright (as a boy) - Tony Bayliss

• David Cartwright (as a man) - Harold Carter

• Dora Cartwright - Ann Waterhouse

• Arthur Cartwright - Clifford Openshaw

• Will Squire - Dudley Royle

• Miss Hollyoak - Margaret Knowles

• Miss Pickering - Kathleen Colenutt

• Jessie Tubb - Mary Hamblin

• Bonsir - Peter Edwards

• Colonel Atkins - Arthur Lines

• Old Man - Ronnie Caress

• Pierre - Ray Deegan

Schoolgirls: Jane Allen, Pamela Meadowcroft, Brenda Sewell, Daphne Schofield

Footballers / Cricketers / Special Constables: Stanley Ablewhite, Ronnie Caress, Peter Edwards, Edward Fielding, Clifford Openshaw, Ernest Talbot

The play produced by Edward Horton

Scenes:

Act I - The sitting room in the School House, Marcle, Herefordshire

Scene 1 - September 1889

Scene 2 - June 1892

Act II - A schoolroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire

Scene 1 - April 1905

Scene 2 - May 1905

Scene 3 - September 1907

Act III - A schoolroom, Hinckley, Leicestershire

Scene 1 - September 1914

Scene 2 - July 1916

Scene 3 - Christmas Eve 1918