Clapham Lodge garden and Belmont Boys Brigade
16mm film Black & White Silent 1949 15:12
Summary: Clapham Lodge garden and Belmont Boys Brigade
Title number: 20647
LSA ID: LSA/27205
Description: Woman [Viola Bawtree] playing in back garden of Clapham Lodge with dog and balloon; Cat in house [Clapham Lodge] playing with string and dog; walking in the park a young girl with dog (same dog as before); young girl with teddy bear; new scene, a man wearing apron and gardening; cut to same young girl walking through a flower garden; back to same man in vegetable garden - a cauliflower; images of a magnolia and young girl again; tomatoes, flower garden; apple tree; back to b/w shot to Boys Brigade dated 1949, 12th Mid-Surrey and 12th (or 1st?) Hatch End camp at Charmouth; "Camp is planned early in the year money has to be raised by displays and other means"; "The Display at Clapham Lodge - A Boys Brigade Circus" - boys doing acrobatics and dressed as an elephant ; "Departure by lorry from Belmont, views on the road, arrival at Charmouth" - filmed from back of lorry; view of Charmouth village and countryside; "Dull and rainy start, Inter Company football keeps us cheerful, Arrival of Mr Long the Grocer", setting up camp, cooking, football match; tents, nice shots of grocer arriving with his bike; "cricket match v Ruislip scouts including views of the camp, The farmer's pony provides entertainment (but no pony);
Credits: Bawtree, Ivan (Filmmaker)
Further information: Shot by amateur filmmaker Ivan Bawtree, formerly a Corporal with a British Army Graves Registration Unit working as a photographer in France and Flanders, 1915-1920 during the First World War.
During the war, British soldier death counts were rising rapidly which inspired Sir Fabian Ware to set up the Graves Registration Commission in 1915, funded by the British Red Cross.
He acquired the services of three photographers, including 21-year-old Ivan Bawtree, to visit the cemeteries in British held areas of the Western Front to document the dead.
Keywords: dog; cat; Gardening
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Sutton; Clapham Lodge
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