Sutton Carnival Procession
16mm film Black & White Silent 1933 3:45
Summary: Sutton Procession
Title number: 687
LSA ID: LSA/896
Description: A small crowd is lined up outside Sutton Railway station looking out onto the High Street. Some road traffic passes by. Including private vehicles and double decker buses. The crowd grows larger around the junction of the High Street and Mulgrave Road, even though it ha started raining and umbrellas have been raised. A procession begins to move past, coming up Mulgrave Road including a fire engine and carnival floats from a range of organisations and businesses including the Ark School (with a float modelled on Noah's Ark), Wandsworth District Council, Deweys Pianos, the Express Dairy, and John Hall and Sons of Broadmead (makers of paints and varnishes). Several of the vehicles mention a hospital and money appears to being collected for charitable purposes. The film concludes in a park area, where the carnival looks to be taking place. Some mothers line up a row of toddlers and a few older children for the camera.
Credits: Bawtree, Ivan (Filmmaker)
Further information: The film may have been shot by Ivan or Athelstone Bawtree, who ran a local photographic and film supply shop. Ivan Bawtree had served as a photographer for the British Red Cross during the First World War and was attached to a Graves Registration Unit on the Western Front. The Imperial War Museum holds photographs by him.
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Sutton
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