Send and Ripley HISTORY SOCIETY
Seasons and Storms As part of the Society’s work with local schools, we have mounted an exhibition focusing on the seasons. It has given us a chance to focus on the Tulip festival at Dunsborough Park, local market gardening and the unique agriculture that used to exist on the Broadmead, as well as to show off some of the Society’s photographic collection.
This video examined the numbers who went to war and those who perished, including Robin Skene the first casualty of the war.
It is a brief Pathe News clip of a helicopter party at Dunsborough Park in the 1960s and features the then owners Charles Hughesdon and his wife Florence Desmond.
This re-edited footage with a new sound track shows how the old Nat West Bank was moved up the road in Ripley High Street to its final resting place where it is now – our museum.
Full title read: “GREAT DANES – Filmed at the famous ‘Send’ Kennels, Ripley, Surrey.”