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Holiday Sports - Orange Pelting At Dunstable 1938
Description
Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
On the crest of the Downs at Dunstable we see crowds of children struggling to catch oranges that women are throwing down the hills. It apparently relates to the Romans rolling boulders over the Downs to confound their enemies. Good L/Ss of the children scattered over...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 17114
- Sort Number:
- 38/032
- Time in/Out:
- 01:13:18:00 / 01:13:44:00
- Canister:
- 38/32
- Film ID:
- 961.15
- Issue Date:
- 21/04/1938
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