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London's Biggest Blaze 1924
Description
London.
Title: "LONDON'S BIGGEST BLAZE for fifty years - 70 fire engines and floats fight 4 acres of flaring warehouses containing - rubber and tallow".
Panning shot of firemen directing their hoses from a barge on the river to smouldering warehouses almost completely destroyed by...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Amelia
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 24430
- Sort Number:
- G 1049
- Time in/Out:
- 01:55:09:00 / 01:56:31:00
- Canister:
- G 1049
- Film ID:
- 326.28
- Issue Date:
- 14/01/1924
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