Chalfont St Giles 1946

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Item title reads - Chalfont St. Giles.

Buckinghamshire.

M/S of a signpost pointing to Chalfont St. Giles, the site of the first squatters' town. The camera pans across the huts in the army camp taken over by squatters. Various shots of the interior of one of the huts, seen through...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45830
Sort Number:
46/067
Time in/Out:
01:14:43:00 / 01:16:59:00
Canister:
46/67
Film ID:
1408.14
Issue Date:
22/08/1946

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