Girl Gardeners 1953

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London.

At the Embankment Gardens we see various shots of women gardeners at work, digging, planting shrubs, laying turf and so on. Cornishman Jim Wier works with them. The girls are named as Susan Dean, Mary Brown, Rita Kellerman, Mavis Butcher and Eleanor Horne.

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43584
Sort Number:
NP 450
Time in/Out:
01:34:35:00 / 01:35:45:00
Canister:
NP 450
Film ID:
1317.21
Issue Date:
27/04/1953

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