Mount Pleasant Bombed 1943

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Mount Pleasant Bombed. London.

Various shots of mail sacks being sorted and moved outside the now bombed Mount Pleasant sorting office in London. Several shots of the still smouldering sorting office with fireman...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
60701
Sort Number:
UN 0330 D
Time in/Out:
01:44:59:00 / 01:48:10:00
Canister:
UN 330 D
Film ID:
1817.15
Issue Date:

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