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Snowy days and Summer Fun in Hayes
Through the seasons; a Winter snowball fight, Summertime blowing bubbles, and firing an arrow at a passing steam train!
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Overview
This charming compilation of family events takes place through the seasons. We open with a snowball fight in a back garden during a heavy snowstorm in Winter. Next, in Summer, a father teaches his daughter to blow bubbles with a clay pipe. For the Autumn finale, a boy takes careful aim and fires a toy arrow at a passing steam train before joining his sisters on a wire fence watching the trains pass by.
This film is from the collection of Hillingdon Local Studies, Archives and Museum Service, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.
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