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Southall - Laundry Done At Your Work! 1959
Description
Titles read: "SOUTHALL - LAUNDRY DONE AT YOUR WORK!".
Southall, Middlesex.
Various shots of office girls at work, typing. Among them are Margaret Coote and Anne Leak.
Exterior shot of the Taylor Woodrow building. Women arrive at the building for work; some carry bundles of...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 50248
- Sort Number:
- 59/004
- Time in/Out:
- 01:41:18:00 / 01:42:42:00
- Canister:
- 59/4
- Film ID:
- 1565.16
- Issue Date:
- 12/01/1959
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