Model Cathedrals

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

532

Date Released

4 Mar 1965

Date recorded

29 Jan 1965

Length of issue (in feet)

683

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Model Cathedrals
2. 2Steeplejack School
3. 3London Ski School

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: The singing splendour of Lincoln Cathedral in the front garden of a Leicestershire council house. Sixty-year-old miner Bill Talbot of Measham was given a sack of cement and started converting flat photographs of the cathedrals of Canterbury, Lichfield, Chesterfield and bomb-scarred Coventry into models of three-dimensional loveliness. We soar up to the heights of this singing spire that mostly only steeplejacks know...

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Arts and crafts; Toys and models

Locations

England; Leicestershire

Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Richard Norton

Length of story (in feet)

101

Story extras:

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