Rock Of Ages 1935

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Full title reads: "Rock of Ages - Thousands remember Toplady at Burrington Coombe".

Burrington Coombe, the Mendips, Somerset.

WS. A crowd gathered to remember Toplady the author of the hymn 'Rock of Ages'. A speaker at a microphone tells the congregation how on his way to his vicarage...

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Cataloguer:
Bond
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
12409
Sort Number:
35/061
Time in/Out:
01:47:07:00 / 01:48:39:00
Canister:
35/61
Film ID:
833.24
Issue Date:
01/08/1935

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