In April 2009 GCH Entertainment embarked on a massive new living history project to honour the men, past and present, of the Lancashire Fusiliers and subsequent (after amalgamation in 1968) Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Forty one years after the primrose hackle was replaced by the red and white plume, the regiment is now experiencing another milestone in its 300 year history; the final relocation of its regimental museum from the remains of Wellington Barracks to its new, state-of-the-art £4 million museum space in Bury town centre.
Over the following eighteen months, GCH Entertainment, working in close collaboration with the regiment and the regimental museum, will be filming interviews, recollections and reminiscences with veterans, their friends and family, to compile the most comprehensive living history archive of Lancashire Fusiliers and Royal Regiment of Fusiliers material ever assembled. As well as forming the framework to a major six-part television series, the footage will be donated to the museum archives for future use .
The six-part television series, shot in HD and presented by acclaimed television historian Simon Entwistle, mixes archive footage, interviews and specially created reconstructions of historic, defining events in the Regiment's history, to tell a truly distinguished story spanning three centuries.
