Phew!! 1921

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Item title reads - Phew!! Fields, Commons and Forests ablaze - but the kiddies, so long as there is water about, don't mind.

Intertitle - 'Are Comparisons odious? Trafalgar Square - July and January.

Two men walk through Trafalgar Square and fan themselves with their hats. Various...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22376
Sort Number:
G 0789
Time in/Out:
01:23:28:00 / 01:27:14:00
Canister:
G 789
Film ID:
238.22
Issue Date:
14/07/1921

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British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.
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