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Topical Budget 228-1: Horses' New Years' Dinner (1916)
 

Synopsis

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"Marlborough, the old charger of the late Lord Wolseley, enjoys tit-bits on New Year's Day at the Home of Rest for Horses." View along row of stable block. Horses heads peer out from the stables. Two women feeding a pony at a stable door - its head just appearing over the door. A girl looking at a horse in the stable yard. A woman and girl with a horse. Men carrying wooden boxes with tit-bits pass through a small gathering of people in the stable yard. A girl feeding the horse Marlborough; similar scene, this time helped by a soldier. People wandering along the stable block looking at the horses.