History Archive Film DVD LINCOLNSHIRE A CENTURY ON FILM 2 Reel 2 Fool's Paradise

DVD:  LINCOLNSHIRE A CENTURY ON FILM: Reel Two - Fool's Paradise ?\n\n'Lincolnshire - A Century on Film' is a major new series of DVDs showing life and work in the historic county.\n\nVolume Two covers the decade leading up to the Second World War. With the availability of smaller, easy to use cine cameras, many more people were now recording their lives on film, and judging from their pictures, some of them now in colour, Lincolnshire life seems to have been largely unaffected by the political and economic problems of the 1930s. Agriculture and the Grimbsy fishing industry were clearly thriving, with fish now being frozen for retail sale; and RAF planes flour-bombing a canvas tank give little hint of the horrors soon to come.\n\nIn a world where a travelling scissor grinder was still plying his trade, and gravel was laboriously extracted by hand, a Jubilee and Coronation were certain to draw huge crowds, buy traditional pleasures such as Scout Camps, garden fetes and .