Cat no. 967

Drawing The Line

Running time1:42 Black & White Sound 1939 Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk

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A newsreel item showing domestic and working life around the small seaport of Wells-next-the Sea.

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Newsreel

Scenes around the small coastal town of Wells next the Sea: houses, streets and a woman drawing water from the communal pump.

A coaster arrives at the quay. Whelk boats return on the tide. The whelks are unloaded and cooked in the boiling houses. There is a close-up of one of the fishermen, then views of the beach showing a row of beach huts.

Children play and row around in boats on Abraham's Bosom, a small lake behind the sand hills. Town allotments also feature, and a windmill.

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