Mute film showing people sending out massive amounts of letters (invitations ?) to all parts of the world, from Tirley Garth, England. Various shots of a reception in the garden of Tirley Garth including Peter Howard, soldiers and many other people drinking tea and talking together.
1942 Tirley colour film.
Landgirls – Cheri Conner, Margot Lean, Angela Owbridge
1.41 Roly Wilson dictating to Monica Phelps
1.55 Printing machine – James Silver and Heather Lancashire
3.00 Filing address label metal plates – Marjorie Foss
3.20 – Margaret (Barnes) Sisam
3.48 Mary Gaddie
4.05 doing the send-out, from r – Mary Gaddie, James Silver, maybe Stephen Foot
4.20 ??, Monica Phelps, Margaret (Barnes) Sisam, ? , Roly Wilson
4.28 Liz Bygott?
By front door, loading car with newsletters for post – Heather Lancashire, Monica Phelps, Mary Gaddie, among others
5.03 Margaret Sisam
5.25 Irene Prestwich
sweeping ???
weeding ???
6.01 (Lady) Maisie Fletcher
6.12 ?? Roly? plus James Silver
6.20 with trolley – Stella (Corduroy) Belden
brief glimpse of Marjorie Foss and Lucy Corcoran
6.26 ?? Ron Plumstead with cake??
6.30 the centre one of the three ladies is Doris Vickers
6.36 Peter Howard
6.57 Peter and Doe, fleeting glimpse of Farrar Vickers behind
7.02 Reggie and Ivy Mackay – Lew Mackay’s parents
7.15 Mary (Richmond) Wilson, with leg in plaster
8.12 Peter Howard legging it with Mary’s crutches
8.21 Mary Wilson and Margaret Sisam
8.25 Hannen Foss
Bill Conner
8.40 Brig Gen Peter Winser – and his wooden leg, named ‘George’
8.59 David Hind and ?
9.02 Hannen Foss?
9.48 the last of the four men, dressed in a white shirt, is Denis Foss
10.41 Irene Prestwich and Lawson Wood
10.57 ?? and Roly Wilson
11.24 Stella Belden and Cath (Barnes) Phillimore
11.32 Maisie Fletcher conducting
the castle turrets visible in the background are part of the set of ‘Giant Otherfellow’,
12.34 Liz Prescott on r.
12.43 Liz Prescott
13.36 ?? John Nowell and other businessmen, peeling potatoes
14.00 Stella Belden and Margaret Sisam
14.18 Angela Owbridge with pony and cart
14.40 Heather Lancashire and Lawson Wood
14.57 Margaret (Barnes) Sisam, Mary (Wilson) Wood, Cath (Barnes) Phillimore, with Lawson Wood, garden picnic and festivities for Margaret Sisam’s 21st birthday June 3, 1942
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