Sydney Martin: Picnic in Epping, Trip to Brixham and Scenes Around London
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9.5mm film Black & White Silent 1930
Summary: Compilation includes picnic in Epping Green, a trip to the seaside at Brixham, and numerous locations in London
Description: Compilation includes picnic in Epping Green, a trip to the seaside at Brixham, and numerous locations in London - London Zoo, Buckingham Palace, St James's Park and an unidentified market.
Further information: Sydney Francis Martin lived in Wanstead & Woodford with his wife Mary and daughter Eileen. A very accomplished amateur filmmaker, he joined the Ilford Cine Club and went on to become a founder member of the Wanstead & Woodford Cine Club. He became chairman of the IAC (Film and Video Institute).
Whilst not all of these films show the London Borough of Redbridge, they are kept together as an archive of his filmmaking.