Pub landlord turns matador to pit his wits against a ferocious ram!
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Short Summary
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Description
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Data
- Film ID:
- 291.05
- Media URN:
- 3582
- Group:
- Colour pictorials
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 27/09/1964
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
Unknown user says
Great to discover this piece of history as I was the police sergeant at Ash when the 'bull fight' took place and my daughter Gill is the girl in the blue shorts looking on. The background to the event was even more amazing as Alf Marvin had told the whole wide world that a real bull fight was to take place in the backyard of the pub on that Sunday afternoon. There was intense media interest and come the day the BBC sent two separate teams to cover it, one news and the other a special events team. There were people from the Society against cruelty to animals parading outside with placards and the public turned out in great numbers to the extent that the roads around the pub came to a standstill for several hours. Alf kept up the story that the a bull would appear and eventually a large cattle transporter arrived with much banging on the sides from within. Fortunately everyone saw the funny side when the sheep emerged but I had wondered how with crowd might reacted. It all turned out be…