Cockney Barrows 1967

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Covent Garden, London.

M/S of a porter collecting a barrow from a doorway in Covent Garden market.

Several shots show Terry O'Doherty and others at his Covent Garden workshop, crafting wooden barrows and carving lettering on the painted wheels; another man paints a wheel yellow. Commentator...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4295
Sort Number:
CP 663
Time in/Out:
01:47:57:00 / 01:51:06:00
Canister:
CP 663
Film ID:
421.07
Issue Date:
07/09/1967

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