Holiday Sports - Hot Cross Bun Fight At… 1938

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Aldershot, Hampshire.

Several shots of a large crowd of children catching hot cross buns that are being thrown into the street by baker men on a balcony above a row of shops. Good shots of the children snatching buns, eating buns, lifting up their jumpers to reveal a stash of buns and so on.

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
17113
Sort Number:
38/032
Time in/Out:
01:12:41:00 / 01:13:18:00
Canister:
38/32
Film ID:
961.14
Issue Date:
21/04/1938

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