READING the letter from Dr Ross (Readers’ Times, February 2) brought back many happy memories for us.

We were youngsters growing up in New Radnor when the film It Happened Here was made.

Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo and their crew descended on the village to shoot parts of the film and the whole community became involved.

In 2010 the film was shown at the Hay Film Festival and we had the pleasure of meeting Kevin again after all those years and re-living the memories of when the film was being made in New Radnor in the late 1950s.

The letter goes on to talk about Dr Richard Jobson, whose wife Pauline starred in the film and who first bought the film makers to our village. Dr Jobson was one of those great characters who were so much a part of village life.

We cannot speak for the early years when he first became the village doctor in 1937 but there are stories from grateful patients in the Gladestry Millennium Book of when he walked over the hills in snowshoes from New Radnor to Gladestry in the snow of 1947 to tend to the sick.

He was always a much loved figure in the villages he served and the Gladestry book also talks about his Yorkshire terrier (we think his name was Billy) tucked inside his shirt when he arrived to take surgeries in the local Post Office.

His other passion was photography and many of his photos can still be seen in local books published over the years.

It was a sad loss when he died in 1977 but he is still remembered affectionately from the days when the village GP knew all his patients and all his patients knew and respected him.

JANE LISSAMAN, PAT McILVRAY and LIBBY ROE, Old Station, New Radnor.