King & Queen In The Fen Country (1942)

Titles read: “KING & QUEEN IN THE FEN COUNTRY“. Cambridgeshire. Various shots of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) in a small barge travelling along a narrow river in the fen country of Cambridgeshire. Nice shot of land girls waving from the river bank. From the barge the royal party see land girls at work in the fields. The King and Queen leave their barge to take a look at the work going on reclaiming the fen-land. Great shots of land girls ploughing the earth using hoes and tractors and planting seeds. Note: this is good footage of land girls at work. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bullet