Customs + Excise War Memorial 1955

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Custom House, London.

SCU. Customs Memorial, assembly standing. CU. Draping and Customs and Excise badge at the base of the memorial. SCU. Side view, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir John Anderson Waverley - Lord Waverley. CU. Lord Waverley. SCU. Chancellor of the Exchequer,...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
31310
Sort Number:
55/090
Time in/Out:
01:40:36:00 / 01:41:07:00
Canister:
55/90
Film ID:
553.31
Issue Date:
10/11/1955

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