HAIR THATCHING

Hair Thatching 1958

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Description

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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Long Wittenham Berkshire Roye England models villages thatching Guy Williams crafts hobbies trains railways

Data

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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Comments

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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