Like A Giant Cheese Cutter 1929

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Item title reads - Like a giant cheese cutter. Messrs. Chivers & Sons cut great wartime hangars on behalf of National Trust to give clear view of Stonehenge once again. Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.

M/S of a man at the top of one of the hangars, securing rope which he slides down. M/S as they...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
18587
Sort Number:
G 1640
Time in/Out:
01:07:03:00 / 01:08:56:00
Canister:
G 1640
Film ID:
802.05
Issue Date:
09/09/1929

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