Cathedral Consecrated AKA Consecration Of… 1962

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Titles read: "COVENTRY - CATHEDRAL CONSECRATED".

Warwickshire.

L/S of Coventry Cathedral. Several shots of the exterior of the new cathedral beside the charred remains of the old one and the figure of St Michael mounted on the outside wall of the new cathedral.

In the ruins...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
53573
Sort Number:
62/043
Time in/Out:
01:28:21:00 / 01:31:03:00
Canister:
62/43
Film ID:
1725.12
Issue Date:
28/05/1962

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