Bridlington 1939

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Full titles read: "BRIDLINGTON"

L/Ss of people marching through the streets of Bridlington on the way to Bridlington Priory Church, Yorkshire. They commemorate the death of seventy people who lost their lives during a storm in nearly seventy years previously. M/S of the only survivor of the...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
14085
Sort Number:
39/014
Time in/Out:
01:13:28:00 / 01:13:59:00
Canister:
39/14
Film ID:
1001.16
Issue Date:
16/02/1939

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