"Let The Good Work Go On"! 1932

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Full title reads: "Somers Town. 'Let the good work go on'! Lady Patricia Ramsay opens another block of 35 flats of working classes - 160 have been built in last 6 years - on what was once one of London's worst slums."

Somers Town, London.

Lady Patricia Ramsay stands next to a priest,...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
5177
Sort Number:
32/083
Time in/Out:
01:07:50:00 / 01:09:16:00
Canister:
32/83
Film ID:
685.07
Issue Date:
17/10/1932

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