Lion Loves Out Local 1959

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Description

Title reads: "Lion Loves Out Local".

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

Interior: Zookeeper Morris Sharpe, his wife and daughter seated around their fireside at home, on the hearth rug lays Simba the 15 month old lion. C/U cat creeping in through a door, looks at the lion and disappears...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
51088
Sort Number:
59/050
Time in/Out:
01:11:27:00 / 01:12:58:00
Canister:
59/50
Film ID:
1587.08
Issue Date:
22/06/1959

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  • "Mr. Sharpe drives off in his van" - it's a Morris Minor van.

    The location of the pub featured in this clip is Kettering Road, Isham, (it's still there, but is now called The Monk & Minstrel).

    jamied 9th Jun 2012

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