Shameful Episode AKA Racial Riots 1958

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Full title reads: "Notting Hill. Shameful Episode".

West London. Race riots are sparked, possibly by outsiders coming to attack immigrant families.

SV Afro-Caribbean Family carrying cases and bags walking towards camera, as they walk out of picture a small boy is left pushing a pushing-chair....

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
49762
Sort Number:
58/071
Time in/Out:
10:09:12:00 / 10:10:16:00
Canister:
58/71
Film ID:
1551.04
Issue Date:
04/08/1958

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