Here’s To The Memory - Part 3 (1920-1939)

Here’s to the Memory - Part 3. Beginning missing. Royal carriage at Ascot (very short shot). Horse race begins - Goodwood. Steve Donohue (Donoghue) the jockey mounts a horse. Wimbledon - Suzanne Lenglen plays. Oval - Jack Hobbs makes his 125th Century. 1927 football Cup Final at Wembley. Cardiff v Arsenal. Crowd invades the pitch. Greyhound / whippet racing - a very amateur affair and a proper racetrack. Motorcycle racing and motor racing at Brooklands. Wall of death, various stunts including riding a motorcycle through a pane of glass and driving a car over a building. 01:22:55 - Lord Brabazon talks of the miraculous flights of the time and speed records. Flying meetings, various aviators and their machines. Wilbur (sp?) Wright, Graham White, Gustav Hammel (?), Pegoed (?) Cody, Sopwith etc. are mentioned in narration and possibly seen. Alcock and Brown. Ross and Keith Smith. Charles Lindbergh. Kingsford Smith. Crowds of people crowd around aviator - Jim Mollison? Amelia Earhart. Jea
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