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  • Short Summary

    Women work as kennel maids in Haslemere.

  • Description

    Filmed at Bell Mead Kennels, Haslemere, Surrey.

    "The job of looking after our doggy friends is attracting more of the fair sex every year - as a business", said Miss Trefusis Forbes." L/S of three women chatting to each other and petting a small dog. L/S of group of kennel maids in overalls running towards the camera with their charges. Very short item - incomplete.

    Was an item in Eve's Film Review issue number 528.

    Note: see also "Dogs" on EP216 which is almost certainly a continuation of this story. Alternative spelling for search purposes - Bellmead Kennels.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    942.16
    Media URN:
    16766
    Group:
    Eve pictorials
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    16/07/1931
    Sound:
    Mute
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:43:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:34:30:00 / 01:35:13:00
    Canister:
    EP 216

Comments (1)

  1. RuthWashbrook says

    Miss Trefusis Forbes is Katherine Jane Trefusis Forbes who became Air Chief Commandant and the first director of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force from 1939-43. She married Robert Alexander Watson-Watt known for inventing radar and they became Dame and Sir. She set up Bell Meade Kennels after the First World War.

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