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Dangerous corner..... Brands Hatch, Kent, England ; Unidentified speed car driver

Dangerous corner.....
Brands Hatch, Kent, England ; Unidentified speed car driver negotiates what appears to be a " dangerous corner " at the Brands Hatch motor circuit here today. The girl on the track is 22 year old French idol, Francoise Hardy, the innovator of the current mini - jupe ( short skirt ) craze, who is currently on location here for the movie, " Grand Prix ".
Racing sequences for the film are being made at Brands Hatch under the direction of John Frankenheimer for MGM Cinerama presentation.
12 July 1966

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Man on horseback in front of grocers shop around Sevenoaks area, Kent. Advertisements and signs

Man on horseback in front of grocer's shop around Sevenoaks area, Kent. Advertisements and signs: "T. H. Knight, Draper, Grocer, Messer's Cronk Chartered Surveyors, 138 High Street, Sevenoaks. Brooke Bond Tea, Colman's Blue, Buy Leon's Coffee and Chicory Extract, Leon's Tea, Robin Starch for dainty linen, Spratt's Dog Cakes, Otford - Automobile Association, Plaza Super Cinema Poster: Simone Simon - Walter Winchell - Love and Hisses [1937]", smalltown, village, rural, atmospheric, street scene.
[box PLANET92157 - actual negative number 9215 (unknown archive)]
1937 - 1939, late 30s, early 40s ?

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The World s Largest Pie...... Denby Dale, Yorkshire : The World s largest meat

The World s Largest Pie......
Denby Dale, Yorkshire : The World s largest meat and potatoe pie - The Denby Dale Pie - leaves the bakehouse here today for the " Pie - Field " where it was to be cut up and sold to the thousands of visitors in aid of charity.
The baking of the pie was started at noon yesterday, and into the pie has gone 4, 500 lbs of beef, one and a half tons of potatoes, one and a half cwt of seasoning, ten cwt of flour and six cwt of fat, salt and baking powder.
The village has been famous for its mammoth pies since 1788 when the first pie was cooked to commemorate the recovery of King George III from a mental illness. Since that time the pie has been baked at different occasions, the last being in 1928. Today s ceremony was to commemorate the recent Royal births.
5 September 1964

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