Oranges And Lemons (1956)

M/S looking along The Strand in London as traffic passes; St Clement Danes Church is seen in the background, the tower covered in scaffolding; M/S of the church, with the tower behind a fretwork of scaffolding (wartime damage is being repaired). M/S looking up through an archway at one of the smaller towers. Commentator talks of the history of the area and how the fruit porter’s route once led through Clement’s Inn, and a toll of oranges was levied here on merchants bringing citrus fruits from the Mediterranean to the big markets of London. Great high angle shots of Covent Garden Market; showing trucks moving slowly along, loaded with crates, and being unpacked. M/Ss in Long Acre as crates of oranges are unloaded from a lorry. M/S of some children playing ’Oranges and Lemons’ on the cobbled stones in the market. Cut to M/S of a group of children in Spain, wearing traditional costume and playing their version of ’Oranges and Lemons’ before and orange grove; M/S of four children sitting and watching t