Goofs

The blackout did not appear to be in force in Oakworth. In many scenes, from Lily climbing out of the window and running down the field with a torch, to front doors being opened in a blaze of light, there was no indication that a blackout was in force at all.

Blackout regulations started on 1st September 1939 and ended in May 1945. Rules were relaxed slightly in September 1944, but only to allow very low levels of lighting, no brighter than moonlight.

Lily's torch would have been pasted over with dark paper to dim the beam, or black paper with a slit in it.

Had a bomb been dropped on the churchyard in front of the house, the every window in the front of the house would have been smashed by the force of the blast.

There was no paper tape on any window in the film. Tape was stuck to windows in a criscrossed pattern in an attempt to stop glass shards flying about during a bomb blast.

The Union Jack in the schoolroom is upside-down.

When the radio is describing an altercation in a local public house involving American Soldiers, the curtains in the background of the scene are modern from the Dunelm Mill chain of stores.