Wonderful news for overworked writers who don’t have time to maintain their blogs: British Pathé have uploaded their stock of vintage film clips to YouTube. As the old slogan of the British tabloid the News of the World used to claim, “all human life is there”, and quite a bit of horsey life too. So …
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The British Pathé News site is a treasure trove of vintage films. I found this clip of a 1927 ladies’ point-to-point by sticking “sidesaddle” in the search engine, and what a sight it is. Frankly, much of the riding looks pretty awful! The accompanying notes say there is no information on where it was filmed, …