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Girl Pipers

From the collection of

London’s Screen Archives
London’s Screen Archives is a network of over 50 organisations with a collective vision – to preserve and share London’s history on film. The network is managed by Film London and we work with our partners to digitise, preserve, and offer access to their moving image collections.

Girl Pipers

Gorgeous colour film of a school fair in Enfield with sports day and Dagenham Girl Pipers display

There's much fun to be had with the many races and presentations in this film and, quite lovely, just a Snippet of a child eating a Wall's ice cream brick. The latter sequence shows the Dagenham Girl Pipers, who toured extensively. The band has a long and interesting history: during a pre-war performance Hitler was heard to remark: "I wish I had a band like that."

This film is from the collection of Enfield Local Studies Library and Archive, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.

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