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Petticoat Lane Market
| Date | [1903?] | ID | 8403 |
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Sellers and customers at Pettticoat Lane Market are captivated by Cecil Hepworth's camera.
![A still from [The Canterbury Tour] (ca.1923)](/wp-content/uploads/films/1024/image_a_thumb.jpg "[The Canterbury Tour] (ca.1923)")
[The Canterbury Tour]
| Date | [ca. 1923] | ID | 1024 |
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A titled film showing a series of Canterbury street scenes filmed from a moving vehicle in this professional film, starting at West Gate and travelling eastwards along the High Street, passing the cattle market on Upper Bridge Street.
The Local Traders' Gazette
| Date | [ca. early 1930s] | ID | 11284 |
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A compilation of advertisements for local businesses in Cranbrook, Hawkhurst, Goudhurst, Sissinghurst, Robertsbridge and Ticehurst in Kent. Made for showing at the cinema, the adverts offer brief interior and exterior shots of shops and business premises; occasionally with the shop keepers or owners out front.
Maidstone on Film
| Date | October 2019 | ID | 13720 |
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A programme of archive film focussed on Maidstone and its surrounding areas from the 1930s to the 1960s. The programme begins with an introduction to the work of the archive and was presented by Frank Gray at the Bishop's Palace, Maidstone in October 2019 as a special screening organised by Kent Archives.
Visits to Southend and Wraxall
| Date | 1932 [?] | ID | 2514 |
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A visit to Westcliffe-on-Sea and Southend, from the Duncan Brand Film Collection, showing residential streets, Southend's shopping centre, the resort's mile long pier, and promenaders on the seafront.
Cruise to Norway
| Date | July 1933 | ID | 2734 |
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Three reels of film with intertitles which document a family holiday to Norway.
Shopping Week
| Date | [ca. mid - late 1930s] | ID | 13492 |
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An amateur film of events in Weybridge for 'Shopping Week'.
Cine Shots of 1938
| Date | 1938 [1950] | ID | 3755 |
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A compilation of scenes filmed in East Sussex and London. Includes footage shot at a zoo, by a river, at the beach at Soutwick, and in Central London at night during the run-up to Christmas, 1938.
![A still from [Holiday in Switzerland] (1938)](/wp-content/uploads/films/2740/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Holiday in Switzerland] (1938)")
[Holiday in Switzerland]
| Date | [1938?] | ID | 2740 |
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A brief amateur film recording a holiday to Switzerland. The majority of the footage focuses on the outdoor markets in Bern - the cameraman pays particular attention to the women wearing traditional Swiss dresses.
Mrs Newlywed’s First Dinner
| Date | [ca. 1940s] | ID | 758 |
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Made in the late 1940s this humorous amateur fiction film depicts a young wife who decides to cook fresh fish for dinner. After a series of culinary disasters she admits defeat and buys fish and chips from the chip shop.
![A still from [Family Album to Entertain] (1940-1941)](/wp-content/uploads/films/10920/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Family Album to Entertain] (1940-1941)")
[Family Album to Entertain]
| Date | 1940 - 1941 | ID | 10920 |
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The film is compiled as a family album with titles naming people. It shows people and street scenes, especially Goldsmiths road, Worthing. 'Stead & Simpsons' shoe shop and 'Doreen Hairdressing' are also shown amongst the shops. Uniformed soldiers and air raid shelter signs signal that the war is on
![A still from [Village Life in Cobham] (1944)](/wp-content/uploads/films/5269/image_a_thumb.jpg "[Village Life in Cobham] (1944)")
[Village Life in Cobham]
| Date | 1944 [?] | ID | 5269 |
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A portrait of village life in Cobham in 1944. The film follows villagers as they walk through the quiet streets and lanes, head into shops and pubs and wander past the church and almshouses. The film also features the film maker's children as they walk and ride through the village.
![[ShippamÕs Chicken Supreme] (ca.1950s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/3285/image_a_thumb.jpg "[ShippamÕs Chicken Supreme] (ca.1950s)")
[Shippam’s Chicken Supreme]
| Date | [ca. 1950s] | ID | 3285 |
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An advertisement for Shippam's "new" tinned chicken supreme. The advert shows the chicken in white sauce as a meal or as a snack with tea, served hot or cold.
![[ShippamÕs Paste, ChildrenÕs Tea Party] (ca.1950s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/3288/image_a_thumb.jpg "[ShippamÕs Paste, ChildrenÕs Tea Party] (ca.1950s)")
[Shippam’s Paste, Children’s Tea Party]
| Date | [ca. 1950s] | ID | 3288 |
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An advertisement for Shippam's meat pastes. The film shows a mother and daughter looking at jars of Shippam's meat paste in the grocer's shop; at home, paste sandwiches are served at a children's tea party, in a lunch box and to guests. The commentary states "Thank goodness for Shippam's pastes".
Round the Town
| Date | [ca. 1950s] | ID | 797 |
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The film follows a cine camera man as he films scenes around the town of Tunbridge Wells, including Trinity Church, the Town Hall, the Opera House, the Pantiles, Chalybeate Spring and scenes of floats from the Tunbridge Wells Festival procession.
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