This Is Your Life: Leonard Stanmore

Leonard STANMORE (1902-1961)

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Leonard Stanmore, chauffeur, was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre, having been brought there by his friend Allan Callow to watch an edition of This Is Your Life while visiting London on business.

Leonard was born in Plympton, Devon, but married and settled in the Cornish town of Launceston, where he worked as a baker's roundsman and later as a taxi driver. He was known for his generosity, buying Christmas presents for his client's children and driving nurses to work on Sundays and Christmas Day when there was no local public transport.

During the Second World War, he and his wife opened their home to evacuees and homeless children. When he later became a chauffeur, he regularly 'borrowed' his boss's car to help those in need. As chairman of his local Toc H association, he was known locally as 'Saint Leonard' because of his 'warm sympathy and great kindness'.

programme details...

Edition No: 115
Subject No: 115
Broadcast live: Mon 21 Dec 1959
Broadcast time: 7.30-8.05pm
Venue: BBC Television Theatre
Series: 5
Edition: 17

on the guest list...

Sid Hawke
Elsie - wife
Walt Nicholls
Stanley Parker
Baron Truscott
Kenneth Foley
Werner Ortman
Ruth Ortman
Dubloe Brown
Tony Spittle
Nurse Mary Higgins
Nurse Mary Jones
Nurse Nancy Tonkin
Sister Baybutt
Vivian Luxton
Percy - son
Len jnr - son
Annie Rowland
Matron Hilda Hewins
patients of St Mary's Hospital

production team...

Researcher: Ronald Vivian
Writer: Ronald Vivian
Director: unknown
Producer: T Leslie Jackson

related page...

A Charitable Life

the unsung heroes

Series 5 subjects