Ten Stone Baby (1935) | British Pathé

In this Pathé newsreel from the mid-thirties, Leslie Bowles is touted as the heaviest baby in the world. Despite the original title, ’Ten Stone Baby’, the boy is actually 3-years-old with quite the appetite for chocolate. For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews & Classic Movies: #BritishPathé #History #Baby #Weight #Chocolate Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: (FILM ID:) Ten Stone Baby, a British Pathe newsreel from 1935. Despite the newsreel’s original title “Ten Stone Baby“, the boy Leslie Bowles is actually 3-years-old. Seen with his parents in a kind of pen, Leslie is sat in an armchair. Somebody then dangles a bar of chocolate into the pen and he immediately sets to work at fetching it. We also see Leslie playing with bricks. BRITISH PATHÉ’S ST
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