Hair Thatching 1958

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Long Wittenham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire).

Man measures proportions of a dilapidated cottage - its windows are broken. Mr Roye England makes scale models of traditional English cottages that are ready for demolition or just falling to pieces. He is creating a model village.

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
sound
Media URN:
1350
Time in/Out:
01:17:27:00 / 01:20:34:00
Canister:
CP 205
Film ID:
83.04

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gary knight
February 26

I wonder if the model village was ever finished ? according to the clip it would be finished in 1983.

jamied
April 24

"Long Whittenham" should read Long Wittenham. (Note that county boundary changes mean it's now in Oxfordshire, not Berkshire).

"Roy England" should read Roye England.

"Mr England's wife and daughter" - actually the girl is called Wynne Morris, and not Roye England's daughter.

British Pathé
May 15

Thanks jamied.

Gary Knight - we wonder about this too! Does anyone know? Or have a picture of it now? Send it in!

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