When Fraser Met Peter Cushing: Thanks to
Fraser Tennant who sent in this pic of his meeting with PC in Whitstable
back in 1986. If you have pic of a meeting with Peter Cushing that
you'd like to share, we'd love to share it!
Here's Fraser story
behind this meeting: 'This picture was taken on 27 July 1986 in
Whitstable, Kent, but outside a bookshop (the name of which I can no
longer recall). My family and I had gone to Whitstable on holiday with
the vague notion of perhaps meeting Cushing , I cannot recall why we
thought this, but it was around the time of the publication of his first
autobiography. We visited the afore-mentioned bookshop where we were
told that he was away. As we were leaving Whitstable we stopped at the
Tudor Tea Rooms where we encountered the man himself.
Being slightly
intimidated at that time, my father approached him first and then I went
over to speak to him face-to-face. I remember he was reading a Sherlock
Holmes story. Next he kissed my mother’s hand and we all discussed a
few things including that week’s Royal Wedding (Andrew and Sarah) and
the House of the Long Shadows film. He then went outside and got on his
bike and we went back to meet him at the bookshop where the picture was
taken and he signed a number of items for me including the book and some
photographs. I’m really so glad that we got a picture as memory does
tend to fade after a while....'
