Fire! Biggest Since Blitz 1959

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Titles read: "ILFORD - FIRE! BIGGEST SINCE BLITZ".

Ilford, Essex.

Various shots of shops on Ilford High Road burning at night. Mass of flames belch out of the windows. Firemen fight the blaze. Shop fronts burning; one of the shops was a furniture store. Smoke belching from rooftops....

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50295
Sort Number:
59/023
Time in/Out:
01:12:30:00 / 01:14:05:00
Canister:
59/23
Film ID:
1573.09
Issue Date:
19/03/1959

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