Women's Wartime Fire Brigade AKA Ladies… 1915

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Women's wartime fire brigade. Location of events unknown.

World War One; home front war work; women. Yet more of the women's fire brigade; practising rescue work.-- Opens with shot of a woman sitting out on a window ledge above a shop front; a rope is stretched from that window to the ground-...

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Cataloguer:
Cheri
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
71707
Sort Number:
ON 032 G
Time in/Out:
01:57:21:00 / 01:58:35:00
Canister:
ON 032 G
Film ID:
1858.41
Issue Date:
1915

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