Princess Elizabeth Opens Sailors Home 1944

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Item title reads - Princess opens sailors' home.

Aberdeen, Scotland.

M/S of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) makes speech then opens the Merchant Seamen's Home. Everyone applauds.

Cataloguer's note: the sound is slightly out of sync in the speech.

Data

Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44776
Sort Number:
44/082
Time in/Out:
01:17:31:00 / 01:18:40:00
Canister:
44/82
Film ID:
1366.12
Issue Date:
12/10/1944

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