A VARIETY of local movies were remembered this week at Kingsteignton’s Memory Cafe, a monthly event for those living with dementia or memory loss to connect with each other and their pasts.

In the session, hosted by KingsCare Support Worker Jackie Milan and speaker Kevin Dixon, members of the cafe were treated to three movies that were filmed locally, with a talk from Kevin. The films in question spanned across both genres and time, the common theme being their links to the local area.

The 1966 comedy ‘Press for Time’ kicked things off, in which Norman Wisdom plays a newspaper seller causing chaos in the imagined ‘Tinmouth’.

Next, the 1969 movie ‘Run Wild, Run Free’ saw Mark Lester play a troubled 10-year-old boy visiting Newton Abbot Market. Finally, viewers were treated to the 2013 horror ‘The Borderlands’, filmed across Newton Abbot.

Jackie Milan said: ‘It went really really well. It was wonderful because quite often people chat all the way through films, but you could have heard a pin drop in the room.’