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The Village Around Us
Scenes of village life in Chipperfield, Herts, where on the village green is a cricket match, and at the school gates, mums collect children.
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Overview
Amateur filmmaker Mr P. R. Aves, a member of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, captures on Super 8 film scenes of the everyday life of the village close to where he lived. The village in question being Chipperfield in Hertfordshire.
The Two Brewers Public House stands opposite Chipperfield Common, and on the edge of the common, on the village green, a cricket match takes place. The Old School has been converted into flats, and at the new school, St. Pauls, the mums wait at the gate to collect their children. All the usual landmarks that make up a village are recorded, including the butchers, shops, church, and pubs. A lovely record of village life in the late seventies, early eighties.
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