Home Front Squatters 1946

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Title reads: "Home Front Squatters".

Scenes from the Ivanhoe hotel, Bloomsbury, London, recently seized by squatters. Those squatting in the hotel are protesting about housing shortages in Britain.

M/S of the Ivanhoe Hotel, Bloomsbury, crowds surround it. C/U of London Police move...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45905
Sort Number:
46/074
Time in/Out:
01:10:03:00 / 01:10:59:00
Canister:
46/74
Film ID:
1410.07
Issue Date:
16/09/1946

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