Should Women Play Bowls? Topical Budget 820-2

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Should Women Play Bowls? Topical Budget 820-2


A provocative question forms of this short film about a women-only bowls club in the genteel surroundings of Harrow-On-The-Hill.

Given that at around the time this was made, the Topical Budget cameras were also recording one of London's first all-women motorycycle club, it's fairly clear that the question posed in the title of this short film would be an emphatic ‘of course!'. It features footage of a dozen or so women, impeccably hatted, engaged in a game of lawn bowls in Harrow-On-The-Hill, then gathering round the jack to discuss who has emerged the victor.

Given that at around the time this was made, the Topical Budget cameras were also recording one of London’s first all-women motorycycle club, it’s fairly clear that the question posed in the title of this short film would be an emphatic ‘of course!’. It features footage of a dozen or so women, impeccably hatted, engaged in a game of lawn bowls in Harrow-On-The-Hill, then gathering round the jack to discuss who has emerged the victor.


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