Shunting Horse 1964

Star Item

Description

Newmarket, Suffolk.

A story about the way horses are used to pull railway carriages. Various shots of horses training in a field and in the stable yard. We see one horse eating in a field, Lawrence Kelly grooms him and puts a harness round his neck. A train drives by and they walk down the...

more

Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
3558
Sort Number:
CP 504
Time in/Out:
01:44:59:00 / 01:47:07:00
Canister:
CP 504
Film ID:
287.05
Issue Date:
23/08/1964

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

To post a comment, please Register or to add a comment
Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.
daredevil
Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.
911
British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
Franz Reichelt

Related Videos

Hide
Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 504 - Shunting Horse, Mini-Tractor And Sand Artist

Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 504 - Shunting Horse, Mini-Tractor And Sand Artist

Out takes (rushes, cuts) for stories featured in CP 504.

(Locomotives AKA Southern Railway)

(Locomotives AKA Southern Railway)

Various shots of two steam locomotives.

See How They Run!

See How They Run! "A-Shunting We Will Go!"

A new control tower for railway wagons is demonstrated.

Model Train

Model Train

A man builds a model shunting engine for his daughters to ride in. Yorkshire.

Shunting At Night

Shunting At Night

Dark shots of trains shunting at night.

American Rail Strike

American Rail Strike

Various shots of the strike around the Canadian Pacific Windsor Station in the snow, showing pickets, trains shunting into sheds, people boarding buses and crowding into the station.

Light Railway To Bring Up Shells

Light Railway To Bring Up Shells

Footage of light railway train transporting shells.

 

 

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
Death Row
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
Buchenwald
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
Churchill
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
Battle
Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Vertigo
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.
Transport_Inventions
Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.
Himmler