| EVERYONE SHALL HAVE ENOUGH PEAS Once a year the people of Sawston get to pick peas from a field for free. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5317 |
| Catalog #: | 243120 | |
| Clip Number: | 243120-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1208 | |
| Timecode: | 01:17:38 - 01:18:35 | |
| Location: | Sawston, Cambridgeshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1925 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Misc. FARMING: Harvest FARMING: Vegetables LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Cambridgeshire SOCIAL SERVICES: Misc | |
| Description: | Everyone shall have enough peas - once every year - free! When town crier calls "All on" whole village flock to gather 2 acres of peas and remember Lady Huntingdon's quaint 200 year old bequest. Sawston, Cambridgeshire. L/S of men, women and children in the field picking the peas, M/S of them filling a basket. C/U of one man on the ground looking through the plants. M/S of women and men picking the peas. 'it only took an hour to pick the field clean!' M/S as they all walk up the field in a line carrying their buckets. | |
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