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In the fields of Northamptonshire, it was harvest time for flax. The BBC's agricutural correspondent Godfrey Baseley looked at the process to produce linen from the crop. From field to factory, the method had not changed much in a very long time.
Clip taken from Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 10 September, 1951.
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In the fields of Northamptonshire, it was harvest time for flax. The BBC's agricutural correspondent Godfrey Baseley looked at the process to produce linen from the crop. From field to factory, the method had not changed much in a very long time.
Clip taken from Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Monday 10 September, 1951.
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