The Lettermen, an Oswestry story, Kinokulture 22nd February

From Oswestry Borderlands Tourism - in case you did not find this information in the Love Oswestry events

The Lettermen (12A) + Talk & Q&A

Kinokulture. Oswestry's Independent Cinema, Shropshire, SY11 1JN

Wed 22nd February 2023 7:30PM

Based on the largest collection of queer love letters discovered by Mark Hignett, curator of Oswestry Town Museum.  The letters are from an Oswestry man and his lover in WWII and The Letter Men is a window into the untold true story of two gay men desperately in love but torn apart by war.

While on military training during World War Two, Gilbert Bradley exchanged hundreds of letters with his sweetheart - who merely signed with the initial "G". But more than 70 years later, a small town museum curator who was collecting historical letters associated with the town of Oswestry discovered that G stood for Gordon, and Gilbert had been in love with a man. These letters now represent the largest known collection of LGBTQ+ love letters from that era.

The Letter Men is based on the real love letters written by Gordon Bowsher to his sweetheart, Gilbert Bradley. Their love letters were exchanged between the years of 1938 and 1941 and uncovered in 2015. Using the actual text of the letters, The Letter Men transports us directly into the places of the letters and their heart--battlefields, air raid shelters, and lost, golden moments.

 "The Letter Men is helplessly romantic, capturing a tender relationship in a time where little was sweet." *** Tribeca Film Festival Review - Film Carnage

There will be after screening Q&A Oswestry Town Museum curator Mark Hignett who discovered the letters.

Director: Andy Vallentine
Starring: Garrett Clayton & Matthew Postlethwaite