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  1. Children’s Village

    Date released
    13 Aug 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    085
    NoS ID
    120249
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Over now to Renfrewshire in Scotland, to a children’s village, complete with its own school, church and shops. Known as the Orphan Homes of Scotland, the cluster of cottages which house 640...

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  2. Home Turkish Bath

    Date released
    13 Aug 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    085
    NoS ID
    120250
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: If you want to relax there’s nothing to beat a hot bath - or for that matter a Turkish bath. And now, thanks to an ingeniously simple British invention, you can kill two birds with one...

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  3. Car Museum

    Date released
    13 Aug 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    085
    NoS ID
    120251
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: At the ancient abbey of Beaulieu, in Hampshire, built in 1204 in the days of King John, the serenity is for once punctured by the clatter of veteran and vintage cars and motor cycles...

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  4. Model Aircraft

    Date released
    20 Aug 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    086
    NoS ID
    120252
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: The life a test pilot is a hazardous one for it is often the unknown element tht brings sudden disaster. But today these risks are being reduced to the barest minimum. At the Armstrong...

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  5. Home-Made Mosaics

    Date released
    20 Aug 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    086
    NoS ID
    120253
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: From the comparatively new art of aircraft design to the ancient art of decoration by mosaics, the piecing together of cubes of coloured marble or glass into pictures or intricate patterns....

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  6. Exotic Garden

    Date released
    20 Aug 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    086
    NoS ID
    120254
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Another consistently popular hobby is gardening, and whether it’s chrysanthemums or potatoes you’re growing, their cultivation can be an artistic as well as fascinating pastime. But...

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  7. Cut Price Castle

    Date released
    20 Aug 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    086
    NoS ID
    120255
    Story no
    4 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: Fourteenth-century Blenkinsopp Castle in Northumberland is the fairytale home of the Simpson family, who bought it for the price in most towns of a comparatively flimsy terraced house - just...

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  8. Tots Ballet

    Date released
    3 Sep 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    088
    NoS ID
    120259
    Story no
    1 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: At a ballet school in Rochester, Kent, tiny tots learn the rudiments of this increasingly popular art. Nothing very professional of course, but the way these youngssters enter into the spirit...

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  9. Camberwell Butterfly

    Date released
    3 Sep 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    088
    NoS ID
    120260
    Story no
    2 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: From the fluttering movements of the ballet, to Nature’s most delicate ballet mistress - the butterfly. At at the Butterfly Farm in Kent, run by Hugh Newman, specimens of the rare...

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  10. Kite Fishermen

    Date released
    3 Sep 1956
    Series name
    Colour Pictorial
    Issue no
    088
    NoS ID
    120261
    Story no
    3 / 4
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Pathe synopsis: A fishing story to astonish even the most sceptical angler! Canadian Alan Harvey introduces kite fishing to locals on Worthing Pier. Used principally by the Eskimos, this novel method enables...

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