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"Fairy Grotto" Fire! 1932
Description
Full title reads: "Blackpool - 'Fairy Grotto' Fire! 60-mile-an-hour gale turns huge store into blazing inferno. Assistants risked their lives to save many of the hundreds of monkeys, parrots,etc."
Blackpool, Lancashire.
Pan down the front of a shop. It is damaged by fire and firemen...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 4608
- Sort Number:
- 32/005
- Time in/Out:
- 01:00:05:00 / 01:01:55:00
- Canister:
- 32/5
- Film ID:
- 641.01
- Issue Date:
- 18/01/1932
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