Blow Egg Football 1950

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Blow egg football.

Park House Conservative Club, Gravesend, Kent.

M/S of team captains of Park House and Forresters tossing the coin, the hollow egg is handed over and put on billiard table. The object is to blow the egg about and get it in the goal at the end. Various shots as each...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
34419
Sort Number:
NP 278
Time in/Out:
01:37:07:00 / 01:38:27:00
Canister:
NP 278
Film ID:
1275.24
Issue Date:
09/01/1950

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