Tinker's Farm Technical School 1940

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Tinker's Farm School.

Near Birmingham, Midlands.

Schools for boys, where they are encouraged to develop their own ideas and hobbies. We see them in the gym doing exercises, climbing ropes and jumping vaulting horse. They also learn railway engineering and signalling, weaving and surveying....

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42946
Sort Number:
NSP 220
Time in/Out:
01:37:09:00 / 01:39:42:00
Canister:
NSP 220
Film ID:
1290.24
Issue Date:
20/06/1940

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