Tinker’s Farm Technical School (1940)

Tinker’s Farm School. Near Birmingham, Midlands. Schools for boys, where they are encouraged to develop their own ideas and hobbies. We see them in the gym doing exercises, climbing ropes and jumping vaulting horse. They also learn railway engineering and signalling, weaving and surveying. They learn how to use the theodolite, compass, plane table, levelling pole. Various shots of them gardening and tending crazy paving, fish pool and rockery. Various shots of them in boat making class making model yachts. C/U of headmaster Mr Wright watching the boats sailing outside. FILM ID: 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 (