A FILM describing the history of Dymock from a personal perspective has raised £1,500 for the village hall.

Melvin Pratt lived in Dymock as a child and returned to the village to make the film, appealing to local residents for old photographs to include in it.

Mr Pratt is paralysed from the waist down from an accident he had when in the Navy. He filmed the documentary with the help of his wife, and edited and narrated it himself.

Dymock residents Horace and Daisy Dudfield, who provided many of the pictures used in the film, organised a showing to raise funds for the village hall in October.

More than 130 people attended and two sittings were needed.

"The village hall didn't hold enough people," said Mr Dudfield. A lot of people that had lived in the village met one another for the first time in many years."

Around 170 videos and 45 DVDs have been sold to people from as far away as Australia, America and New Zealand.

Mr and Mrs Dudfield are hoping that some of their old photographs of the village will be put on exhibition at the Poets' Corner in Dymock church.