Halfway through The Glenn Miller Story, the classic Fifties film stops without warning, the ruched stage curtains close, and a vintage cinema organ slowly rises in front of them.
Bathed in a rich glow of orange, red and gold, organist Alan Underwood blazes into The Dam Busters March as the matinee audience gets to grips with tubs of ice cream. It’s a wonderful moment — and absolutely par for the course at the Kinema in the Woods at Woodhall Spa.
Locals call Woodhall Spa (about 15 miles south-east of Lincoln) a village, but it’s really a small and impeccably smart town where time seems to have stood more or less still for decades. Many of its buildings are half-timbered: houses, hotels, shops, pubs, even