Rosie Witchs Cottage

Donald and The Duck

A Welsh version - Taffy and The Duck

Part XV from the mural series of the Quest for the Holy Grail

by Edwin Austin Abbey

Back to the Future was released on 3 July 1985.

Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis began working on the script in 1980 and began pitching the idea the fall of that year. By April 1981 they had finished a second draft of the script, which was rejected more than 40 times (multiple times by the same studios). Dejected, Zemeckis agreed to direct Romancing the Stone (1984), whose box office success gave Zemeckis enough clout to direct Back to the Future.

Michael J. Fox was the first choice for the role of Marty McFly, but Fox was under contract with NBC for the series Family Ties, who did not want Fox absent from filming. Eric Stoltz was cast and filming began in November 1984. Zemeckis was unhappy with Stoltz's performance (Stoltz is said to have told him that he was not a comedian and didn't understand why he was cast) but needed to find a replacement before he could fire him. NBC had never told Fox about the offer for the film, and when he was informed, he accepted without even reading the script. Stoltz was fired in January 1985 and all his scenes had to be reshot with Fox, costing 34 days in production and an estimated $4 million. Fox shuttled between the Family Ties set and Back to the Future, often filming both on the same day.

Originally intended for a May release, the film was initially pushed to June, before a July date was set.

Back to the Future was released on 3 July 1985.

Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis began working on the script in 1980 and began pitching the idea the fall of that year. By April 1981 they had finished a second draft of the script, which was rejected more than 40 times (multiple times by the same studios). Dejected, Zemeckis agreed to direct Romancing the Stone (1984), whose box office success gave Zemeckis enough clout to direct Back to the Future.

Michael J. Fox was the first choice for the role of Marty McFly, but Fox was under contract with NBC for the series Family Ties, who did not want Fox absent from filming. Eric Stoltz was cast and filming began in November 1984. Zemeckis was unhappy with Stoltz's performance (Stoltz is said to have told him that he was not a comedian and didn't understand why he was cast) but needed to find a replacement before he could fire him. NBC had never told Fox about the offer for the film, and when he was informed, he accepted without even reading the script. Stoltz was fired in January 1985 and all his scenes had to be reshot with Fox, costing 34 days in production and an estimated $4 million. Fox shuttled between the Family Ties set and Back to the Future, often filming both on the same day.

Originally intended for a May release, the film was initially pushed to June, before a July date was set.

Blake, Parry, Elgar.

Believe it,or not, I can still play this on the piano, and organ... despite the huge spread of fingers required for the opening chord!

The King first moved to Highgrove in 1980. The garden at that time were much smaller, and some what overgrown and neglected. Over the years the gardens have been lovingly improved and expanded, by incorporating the adjoining meadows.

Today t there is a series of interlinked gardens, each of which reflects His Majesty's personal interests.

by Malcolm Guite

Men called you light so as to load you down,

And burden you with their own weight of sin,

A woman forced to cover and contain

Those seven devils sent by Everyman.

But one man set you free and took your part

One man knew and loved you to the core

The broken alabaster of your heart

Revealed to Him alone a hidden door,

Into a garden where the fountain sealed,

Could flow at last for him in healing tears,

Till, in another garden, he revealed

The perfect Love that cast out all your fears,

And quickened you with love’s own sway and swing,