In The Garden/Demolishing Air Raid Shelter
Standard 8mm film Colour Mute 1963 4:22
Summary: Children in a London garden help demolish an old air raid shelter before taking a spin in the wheelbarrow for their reward.
Title number: 19600
LSA ID: LSA/25987
Description: Man in yellow t-shirt and a black hat with a red bobble, chips away at a brick wall with hammer and chisel. A young boy plays with a plastic shovel amongst the rubble. A woman puts the black hat with red bobble on one of the children. A boy with a straw hat and red shorts shovels up some of the bricks with a metal shovel. The younger child with the bobble hat brushes away some of the brick dust and then rubs his eyes. The boy in shorts shovels up some more bricks. The younger boy picks up a hammer and chisel. There is a large bush of Wall Barley blowing in the breeze. One of the children stands in the midst of the large bush. We see a large pile of rubble in the garden. A man plays with two children, a girl and a boy, getting them to take turns having a spin in a wheelbarrow. The girl, who wears a blue dress, grins and laughs. Two small brown fish swim in a tank. A woman digs in the garden. There are some flowers and the woman's hand pulling up weeds. A man in dungarees chips away at some brickwork. He joins the man in the bobble hat. A woman passes the man in the bobble hat a cup of tea and he sips it. One of the children digs in the mud, he shovels it into a small trolley. The young girl tips the trolley full of mud and bricks into the large pile of debris.
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: Children; garden; Flowers; Building; wheelbarrow
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Bexley; Sidcup
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