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Fens Fight Floods

Date released

9 Jan 1939

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

821

NoS ID

036389

Story no

6 / 7

Rush work stems fen floods as experts go ahead with prevention scheme.

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Cambridgeshire and the Fens (1989 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 50 min., 1996 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Sequences include Wisbech street scenes in the 1920s, Cambridge Territorials 1921, Papworth TB Hospital 1918, jam making at Chivers factory at Histon 1931, reclaiming Adventurers Fen during World War 2, the...

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Pageant of Fens

Date released

9 Sep 1929

Series name

Empire News Bulletin

Issue no

351

NoS ID

050078

Story no

2 / 7

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A Real Son of the Fens

Date released

18 Feb 1929

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

912-2

NoS ID

132512

Story no

1 / 4

D Pearson wins the British Professional Skating Championships at Lingay Fen.

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British Amateur Skating Champion

Date released

24 Jan 1929

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

909-1

NoS ID

132466

Story no

1 / 6

CW Horn wins Duddleston Cup for one mile skating on the Fens.

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(Untitled record)

Date released

1955

Series name

Scrapbook

Issue no

7

NoS ID

349951

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: drainage of the Fens

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Record Crop Crowns Farmers’ War Driver

Date released

11 Aug 1941

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1090

NoS ID

037923

Story no

6 / 6

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Bumper harvest everywhere! Minister of Agriculture sees crop off reclaimed land. Troops, tractors and civvies lend a helping hand to gather crops.

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Fens an Inland Sea

Date released

24 Mar 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1676

NoS ID

040471

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

More than one hundred square miles of Finland [sic] is submerged. Troops and prisoners of war make desperate bid to close gap in banks of Ouse.

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Flood! (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 54 min., 1996 sale: £17.50 (inclusive)

Films of the 1953 floods in East Anglia and earlier floods including 1937 and 1947 in the fens. Includes sequences filmed around Hunstanton, Gorleston, Felixstowe, Harwich and Canvey Island and a film...

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Jonathan Meades Collection, The (2008)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £15.99

This three DVD box set includes eleven films made by Jonathan Meades for the BBC. Meades explore the ways human beings interact with the structures and places they create. With a distinctive style and...

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