"Home Sweet Home" Some Novelties 1929

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"Just outside Harlow, Essex, we came across one of the quaintest and oldest houses in the country...over 5 centuries old."

M/S of a beautiful and unusual thatched house with a circular roof. People walk in front of the house, one woman pushes a pram. "Just like one of those Fairy houses you...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
21758
Sort Number:
EP 279
Time in/Out:
01:02:29:00 / 01:03:09:00
Canister:
EP 279
Film ID:
992.02
Issue Date:
17/06/1929

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