Hospital Sports 1938

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Hospital Sports 1938

Media Archive for Central England
Bracebridge Heath
1938-01-01
Silent
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8m

Bracebridge Mental Hospital was situated in the Lincolnshire village of Bracebridge Heath, two miles south of the city of Lincoln. It is the annual sports day and not the hospital itself that brings out the cine camera to produce this reel shot in 1938. It features an array of sideshows and races requiring speed and agility including the sack race, a tug-of-war and the mysterious 'boot race'. It was certainly a day for the hospital's patients to shine.

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