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: Cheerful Sparrows Fete On Sleeve As Cheerful Sparrons Fete (1926); Children's fancy dress parade.

: Mass Attack On Channel (1951); Cross Channel Swim won by Mareeh Hassan Hammad with Brenda Fisher 1st woman.

: Ken Dodd - Swimming Coach (1963); Comedian Ken Dodd demonstrates some novel ways to train Channel swimmer Bill Pickering.

: Hope New Edition (1922); Two young girl swimmers train for a cross channel attempt.

: Greta The Great (1958); Greta Anderson wins Channel Swim in record time.

: Girl Wins Mass Swim (1957); Greta Anderson wins mass Channel swim.

: Feminine Pictorialities No. 37 - Some Swimmer! (1934); Austrian swimmer Emma Faber shows us her skill in the pool after swimming the Channel.

: Everybodys Doing It Now AKA Everybody's Doing It Now & Cuts (1926); Mr. Derham of Southend swims Channel in 13 hours and 56 minutes.

: Egyptian Wins Channel Race (1955); 3 swimmers out of 16 finished this year's Channel Swimming Race - Winner, Abdel Haif.

: Channel - Under Sea Drama (1960); American woman, Jane Baldasare, fails in attempt to swim Channel below surface.

: Channel Swimmers Romance (1930); Swimmers Mercedes Gleitze and Patrick Carey get married in Dover.

: News In The Swim (1954); At Folkestone 17 entrants train for cross-Channel swim.

: Out-Takes / Cuts From Cp 249 - 2 Of 2 - Channel Swim (1959); CHANNEL SWIM - Cuts (rushes, out-takes) featured in CP 249.

: Portuguese Wins Channel Swim (1954); Baptista Pereira wins Channel swim race, Hassan Hammad comes second, Brenda Fisher third.

: Boy Swimmer Beats Channel (1949); 18 year old Philip Mickman swims the English Channel - Jose Cortinaz from Cuba fails.

: Arabian Princes Visit Dover (1943); Two Saudi Arabian Princes visit Dover.

: All Wet For Fun (1965); Bob Platten sails the Channel in a huge bottle, and people play football in the mud. Southend.

: Across The Channel And Back In 107 Minutes (1928); The Honourable Mrs Mary Bruce races across the English Channel and back in an outboard hydroplane. Dover, Kent.

: Cycling The Thames - Miss Zetta Hills (1920); Miss Zetta Hills rides her strange water bicycle contraption on the River Thames.

: Trudie Turns Teacher On Sleeve As Trudie Returns Teacher (1926); Channel swimmer, Gertrude Ederle, teaches children how to swim.

: The Butlin International Cross Channel Swimming Race 1957 (1957); Long version of the newsreel story GIRL WINS MASS SWIM - special for Butlin's.

: Swimmers Here For Daily Mail Prize Contest (1950); Swimmers arriving for Daily Mail prize Channel swimming competition.

: Shirley May - But She Did'nt Sic (1949); American swimmer Shirley May France fails to make it across the English Channel.

: Russian Swimmers Continue Their Training In Winter (1960); Swimmers dive into a small channel of water, cut into the ice of frozen River Moskva.

: Channel Swimmers Memorial (1925); Memorial to Captain Webb is unveiled on occasion of 50th anniversary of his Channel attempt.

: Channel Swimmers - Dover (1920); Nice footage of swimmers preparing to swim the Channel and larking about.

: Channel Swimmers (1960); Swimmers come in after negotiating the channel

: News In A Nutshell Ice Jam Blocks Niagara Falls AKA Niagara Falls Frozen Solid , Scenes On Aintree Sunday, Ships In Collision At San Francisco, Soap Box Derby In South Africa, Wedding Of Hon. Joan Milne In Tower Of London, Landslide At Folkestone, French Rail Smash, Shamrock Presented To The Irish Guards, The King Visits Duchy Of Cornwall Estate, Lincolnshire Handicap, Grand National Sweepstakes Draw (1937); Roundup of the world's latest news

: Hellfire Corner AKA Hell Fire Corner (1944); A look at the damage to Dover and its residents, and allies preparing to bomb Calais.

: Butlin Channel Swim-Race Folkestone (1956); Various shots of swimmer in rough sea.

: Channel Tunnel - Yes Or No? (1957); Investigation into prospects of building undersea link between Britain and France.

: Cycling The Channel; We see Mr H. A. Rigby cycling towards the shore after his 12 hour journey from Folkestone to Calais.

: British Success In Channel Swim (1950); The Egyptian Hassan El Rehim wins the English channel race.

: Austrian Chancellor In England; Austrian Chancellor Kurt Von Schuschnigg visits London and pays visit to Buckingham Palace and Foreign Office.

: Aquatic News (1951); Competitions for the Daily Mail Cross Channel Swimming Race.

: Air Post To Cologne (1919); Air Mail plane takes off to deliver letters to British Soldiers in Germany, c. 1919.

: A Splendid Failure (1927); Mercedes Gleitze attempts a channel swim.

: A Mother's Gallant Bid For Fortune (1929); Myrtle Huddlestone stays in water for 21 hours in her attempt to swim the English Channel and raise money for her son's education.

: Seal Swims Channel (1949); Americans tow a seal across the English Channel.

: A Queer Craft (1927); A strange craft, half boat, half seaplane on show in the water at Dover.

: Channel Swimmers (1949); Cortinaz, Mickman, France and Croes channel swimmers at Dover on the beech & at Hotel.

: Channel Swimmers (1950); Channel swimmers on training in Kent.

: Channel Swimmers (1949); American swimmer Shirley May France fails to make it across the English Channel.

: Channel Swim Skit (1926); Odd item showing fancy dress high-jinks at Cookham Regatta.

: Channel Swim (1956); People on boats, swimmers, rough sea, Meester being fed.

: Channel Swim (1959); Item showing people swimming the English Channel.

: A Gallant Failure (1925); Lieutenant Colonel Sir Bernard Freyburg, V.C. just misses swimming Channel by 1/4 of a mile.

: Channel Swimming Season Opens (1946); Jorge Berruetta of Chile trains for his cross Channel swimming attempt. Dover, Kent.

: School Girl Channel Swimmer (1929); Joan Brunton, aged 11, gets in training for swimming the English Channel. Dover, Kent.

: Beaten Only By The Cold (1927); Plenty of grease and good luck for Mrs. Corson, setting off on a channel swim.

: Beauty Contests Folkestone (1913); Nice shots of young women in beauty contest in Folkestone.