Aunt Sally 1963

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The traditional game of Aunt Sally is played in the grounds of a pub in Oxfordshire. The pub is the Three Pigeons and the village is Drayton St Leonard. • • Sir Charles Kimber - an Oxbridge man who is the publican - has introduced the game to the locals. • • The game involves throwing short pieces of wood at a white skittle balanced on a metal stake. Narrator recounts the history of the game - allegedly to do with pretending the wooden doll is a hated mother in law. Good shots of the villagers playing the game. Scores are chalked onto a blackboard. Losers buy the beer. Ends with a shot of some of the players enjoying a nice pint in the beer garden. • • Cuts exist - see separate record. • FILM ID:207.14 • A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ • FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ • British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/

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