Tommy Handley Hiking (1935)

Titles read: ’Tommy Handley’. Pathe Studio, London. Comedian Tommy Handley, wearing a tweed jacket, big tweed cap, round glasses and plus-fours, strolls onto set dressed to look like the beer garden of the ’Dew Drop Inn’ (pub), whistling and swinging a walking stick about. He pours all the dregs of beer from the tankards on a table into one and throws them over his shoulder! He then goes into his monologue, telling us all about a walk he’s been on, that was advertised as ’A Pleasant Stroll in the Bunion Country’! He tells of how he followed the directions as best he could, going past a gasometer (actually Davey Burnaby and Teddy Brown) and the glue factory, sewage farm, soapworks and rubbish dump. He reaches a ’prehistoric pub’ called ’The Fried Fish and Face Ache’, passes it with great reluctance, then rests in a slate quarry full of gramophone records, “known locally as ’Christopher Stonehenge’“ - Handley makes theatrical chuckle at his joke (Christopher Stone was a broadcaster in the 30s, p