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        Thorpe-le-Soken Market

        Pitchers work up a sweat at Thorpe-le-Soken market – from fashion to kitchen gadgetry to furnishings. Pouffé anyone? Of course! It’s 1968.

        Amateur film 1968 6 mins

        From the collection of:

        Logo for East Anglian Film Archive

        Overview

        "Stanfilms" a.k.a. Clacton Cine Club member, Laurie Stanton, captures a thriving Thorpe-le-Soken market, where tired toddlers accompany the bargain-hunters on a sunny day in 1968. The market traders can be heard, showing off their ‘pitcher’s patter’, if only for a short section of the footage, starting at 3:20.

        Laurie Stanton was a member of the Clacton Cine Club, and made many films on Standard 8 and Super 8 film. He had a small cinema in his attic where people were invited to watch films. Stanton was the owner of a clothing manufacturing company called 'Mascot' in Clacton. Thorpe-le-Soken lies to the north of Clacton-on-Sea.