| MARSDEN GROTTO Item showing a restaurant built into smuggler's caves at Marsden near Newcastle. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6095 |
| Catalog #: | 92391 | |
| Clip Number: | 92391-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | CP 677 | |
| Timecode: | 01:00:31 - 01:01:56 | |
| Location: | Marsden, Tyne and Wear. | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | FOOD/RESTAURANTS: Pubs / Bars FOOD/RESTAURANTS: Unusual LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Tyne and Wear, Newcastle | |
| Description: | MARSDEN GROTTO Item showing a restaurant built into smuggler's caves at Marsden near Newcastle Marsden, Tyne and Wear. Several shots of the beach and rocks on the coast at Marsden. Marsden Grotto. MLS Two boys sitting on cliff looking at Marsden Grotto. MCU One of the boys. MS Marsden Grotto birds on cliff. MS Birds perched on side of cliff. LS HA.Camera panning r to l. along cliff. sitting and playing on the beach look rather cold, even in their coats. People on beach. MS People on beach camera pans l to r to show hotel. At the base of one of the cliffs is a small hotel. Various shots inside the hotel restaurant which is built into the rock - it was once a smuggler's grotto. MS People sitting inside bar. MS Lights on ceiling. MS Man and woman looking at lights. MS Lights camera pans round to show people sitting at table drinking. MS Barmaid talking to man who is out of picture. MLS People sitting down drinking barmaid in b.g. MS man and woman sitting down drinking. MS Fish tank. The caves are decorated with fishing nets, stuffed fish and a fish tank built into the stone. Commentator tells us "Jack the Jibber, a smuggler who betrayed his comrades to the Excise men, was tortured here as a reprisal. They say you can still hear him moaning". MS Barmaid serving drinks at table. MS Engraving of face on wall. MS Three people sitting at table drinking. MS Stuffed fish hanging on wall. MS Camera looking at rock above door pans down through doorway to show people sitting at tables. LS G.C. of Marsden Grotto | |
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