Object Number: PD9426

Collection: Industrial and Maritime History

Object Name: film negative

Description: Photographs of original images. Shows ‘walking billboard’ man William Henry Colston Vowles (1897-1958), on the left, advertising various shows on at local cinemas in Bristol. This image shows him dressed as a clown outside the ‘perfect talkie theatre’ (probably the Park Picture House in Church road) advertising ‘The Big Cage’. Photographs loaned for copying by Mrs Irene Williams