Lavender Harvest 1948

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Lavender harvest.

Hunstanton, Norfolk.

L/S ladies picking lavender in the fields, a horse and cart full of sacks drives by in foreground. M/S woman picking the flowers. Various shots as they empty their tins into sacks, they are handed metal discs in return, this determines how much...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44658
Sort Number:
NP 217
Time in/Out:
01:32:08:00 / 01:33:25:00
Canister:
NP 217
Film ID:
1357.18
Issue Date:
08/11/1948

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