It was “Lights, camera, action” at the town’s historic railway station in the first week of September 1995 when Midsummer Films arrived to shoot scenes for a new British movie called Caught in the Act. The film company took over David Turner’s famously atmospheric Brief Encounter tearoom and piano showroom, which occupied rooms on the station – and they were impressed with his lovely flowers on the platforms, which had recently won him a Wymondham in Bloom award. Unlike the famous 1945 tear-jerker Brief Encounter, Caught in the Act was an amusing comedy.

Directed by Mark Greenstreet, the movie starred Sara Crowe, who had made her name in a Philadelphia cheese TV commercial and Four Weddings and a Funeral as well as on Broadway, Nadia Sawalha, who had enjoyed a long run in EastEnders,  and Annette Badland. They play three girls who come to Norfolk on holiday with one looking to find the man of her dreams, but when they get to the county the fun really starts – and veteran comedy great Leslie Phillips is also in the film but not in the Wymondham scenes. In the second of the photos taken outside the station’s Brief Encounter refreshment room Sara Crowe is facing the camera, while on the right Nadia Sawalha gets attention from the make-up girl.

The town must have impressed the film people. In a booklet accompanying a DVD of the movie in 2011 a write-up concluded: “Wymondham is much the same as it was when the film-makers left it - unspoilt, easy-going and agreeable. In other words much like Caught in the Act itself”.