"To Help Barts!" 1931

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Full title reads: "London. 'To Help Barts!' Nurses and students revive Rahere's (founder of Empire's oldest hospital) famous Jester's Song."

St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

A man reads a short speech about the founding of Bart's Hospital.

Medical students and nurses rehearse...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
8272
Sort Number:
31/009
Time in/Out:
01:03:08:00 / 01:04:47:00
Canister:
31/9
Film ID:
759.04
Issue Date:
29/01/1931

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