Flowers. Building Shed
Standard 8mm film Colour Mute ? 1:17
Summary: Brief home movie showing a man starting to build a shed in the London-Kent suburbs in 1962.
Title number: 19596
LSA ID: LSA/25983
Description: Red flowers. Yellow flowers. Pink flowers. A man measures up a brick wall with a spirit level. He pulls up a thin wire. He climbs a short ladder and looks closely at the brickwork. Back on the ground, the man uses a hammer and chisel to cut a brick down to size. The outside brick structure of the shed can be seen, with the flowers from earlier swaying in the breeze next to it. A corner of the unfinished brickwork is shown. The image spins around before fading to black.
Credits: Victor A Ashlee; filmmaker
Further information: Mr Victor Ashlee was a local resident and keen filmmaker.
He lived at Eversley Avenue, Barnehurst and later at Caithness Gardens, Sidcup. His four children named Christine, Peter, Diane and Andrew were born between 1957 and 1969 and feature in many of the films in this collection.
Keywords: garden; Flowers; Building
Locations: UK; London-Kent suburbs
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