| GIRL GARDENERS Women gardeners at work in London's Embankment Gardens. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7165 |
| Catalog #: | 40465 | |
| Clip Number: | 40465-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 450 | |
| Timecode: | 01:46:09 - 01:47:22 | |
| Location: | London | |
| Year Shot: | 1953 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HORTICULTURE/GARDENS: Landscape LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London OCCUPATIONS: Horticulture OCCUPATIONS: Women | |
| Description: | GIRL GARDENERS Women gardeners at work in London's Embankment Gardens. London. At the Embankment Gardens we see various shots of women gardeners at work, digging, planting shrubs, laying turf and so on. Cornishman Jim Wier works with them. The girls are named as Susan Dean, Mary Brown, Rita Kellerman, Mavis Butcher and Eleanor Horne. CS Digging (foot pushing the spade is wearing a girls shoe) They all wear trousers. MS To one girl digging and another planting a shrub. CS Girls face as she digs. CS Girls face. MS Girl pressing the shrub home with her foot. & CS Scs Another girl putting on her gardening gloves and picking up a roll of sod another girl picks up another roll of sod. MS First girl sprinkling white powder on the earth. After laying the sod. CS Unrolling the sod and pressing it into position. MS Girl padding the grass home. CS Girls face. MS Another girl shovelling soil into a sifter. She begins to sift it. SLS Man pushing wheelbarrow of fine soil away girl follows him. SLS They stop by the side of what is to be a circular flower bed? The girl carries a shovel full of the fine soil into the centre of the bed by walking along a plank. She sprinkles the soil down. | |
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