Peat Digging (1947)

Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unknown / unclear. Cuts from newsreel 47/80 - peat digging. Wedmore, Somerset. M/S of Wedmore Church panning to main street. Various shots of men cutting sods of peat in a field. Rows of stacked sods drying out. Shot of the peat stacks arranged in cone shaped piles. C/U of a worker wiping his brow. FILM ID:2176.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT 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.