Roof Tops Issue Title - Bolts And Bars 1938

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L/S's and M/S's of a picturesque cottage in Hove, Kent. Strangely though part of the roof top of the house is thatched while the other half is tiled. The commentator explains that the owner wanted tiles and his wife thatch.

Several shots of another strange house with a circular roofed house...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42487
Sort Number:
NSP 140
Time in/Out:
01:51:52:00 / 01:52:27:00
Canister:
NSP 140
Film ID:
1264.28
Issue Date:
01/12/1938

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