Around the Village Green

Evelyn Spice & Marion Grierson | 1937 | 12 mins

As well as picturesque scenes of village life in Essex, this film offers insight into the changing economic and social history of village life in the late 1930s such as bus services – essential for the young to get to work in the towns. Expectations are also rising amongst this new generation. Running water rather than a communal well are now the order of the day. Hooray for one villager refusing to move with the times who declares "I haven't got a bath but I've got a river down the bottom of the garden so I can have a good bath when I want one."

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