Hop Stringers Championship 1961

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Hop Stringer Championship. Kent.

L/S Hop stringers and the women banders assembling. L/S Pan, man reading the rules to the competitors. M/S Competitors listening. C/U Sign "Hope Stringing Competition". M/S Pan, two women banders walking past camera with lengths of string over their arm. L/S...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53362
Sort Number:
61/033
Time in/Out:
01:46:33:00 / 01:47:56:00
Canister:
61/33
Film ID:
1718.32
Issue Date:
24/04/1961

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