Liverpool's £2,000,000 Dock Blaze 1949

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Full title reads: "Liverpool's £2,000,000 Dock Blaze".

Liverpool, Merseyside.

MV Fire burning at night. SV Firemen in foreground with fire burning at night. CU Pan upwards of flames. LV GV aerial shot of burning warehouse in dockland. MV Aerial shot of burning warehouse in Liverpool...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
45957
Sort Number:
49/091
Time in/Out:
01:43:59:00 / 01:45:05:00
Canister:
49/91
Film ID:
1411.32
Issue Date:
14/11/1949

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  • The fire began on 9 November 1949, finally being extinguished on the both.

    The fire occurred on Gladstone Dock.

    jamied 7th Sep 2012

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