Home-Made Playground 1967

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Crawley, West Sussex.

Several shots of the new town centre in Crawley. We then see various shots of children putting together an adventure playground. It looks like great fun as they come down slides in little go-carts / go-karts, climb over bits of wrecked aeroplanes and sit in the wrecked...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
4260
Sort Number:
CP 654
Time in/Out:
01:51:16:00 / 01:53:00:00
Canister:
CP 654
Film ID:
413.06
Issue Date:
06/07/1967

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  • "climb over bits of wrecked aeroplanes and sit in the wrecked cockpit of the plane," - rather than an aeroplane, this is actually the remains of a Bristol Type 171 Sycamore helicopter.

    jamied 12th Jan 2013

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