Manchester - Annual Relay Race 1937

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Full title reads: "MANCHESTER".

Manchester, Lancashire.

Start of the annual relay race through Manchester - runners are off. Various shots of the contestants running through the streets, batons changing hands, crowds watching, cheering. The winners are Birchfield Harriers.

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
13881
Sort Number:
37/077
Time in/Out:
01:30:08:00 / 01:31:16:00
Canister:
37/77
Film ID:
935.41
Issue Date:
27/09/1937

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