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[Cockfield]

1974 , Cockfield (Suffolk)

Cat no. 742

A mute BBC documentary profiling the village of Cockfield, Suffolk.

On the Great Green at Cockfield, Mary Brinkley leans over the gate in front of her flint house, the former station house, talking to Jean Goodman. Jenny Bantoff is filmed around the back of her thatched cottage. Children play at the back of their school and then tend a garden. There are shots of St. Peter's Church. Mr. Ramsey leaves the rectory and tends his roses, growing over a well. There are further shots of the Church and then of Cockfield Hall. Jean Goodman talks to Gillian Hodge outside the Hall and then Gillian Hodge escorts her around the village. Shots include Buttons Green Farm, Old Hall Green and the farmhouse. Four old men, Joe Copping, Dick Dutton, Claud Meekins and Horace Brinkley, sit outside by Cross Green. There are shots if the houses around the green, one of which has become the village shop. A steam traction engine owned by Ken Steward arrives. There is a shot of old agricultural implements lined up on Cross Green, a collection owned by Edward Steward. The film ends with shots of Roundwood Kennels, Winsor Green.

Featured Buildings

St. Peter's Church, Cockfield; Cockfield Hall

Keywords

Steam traction engines; Village life

Background Information

This was one of a series of films made by Jean Goodman for BBC East, entitled An A-Z of East Anglian Villages.The original film would have had a commentary recorded later as 'studio sound.' This has not been preserved.

Manifestations

[Cockfield]

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