Huts For The Homeless 1944

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Item title reads - Huts for Homeless

East Poplar, London.

Various shots on a building site as workmen lay foundations for the first of London's prefabricated houses. Various shots showing the houses at various stages of construction, they can be built in three days. Various shots of...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
39182
Sort Number:
44/078
Time in/Out:
01:30:11:00 / 01:30:58:00
Canister:
44/78
Film ID:
1125.13
Issue Date:
28/09/1944

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