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  1. Tarzan Dustman Commended for Bravery

    Date released
    25 Oct 1956
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2677
    NoS ID
    046936
    Story no
    2 / 8

    Man who’s lived in tree-top home twenty-seven years receives Royal Humane Society’s scroll for attempted drowning rescue.

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  2. Joy Turned into Sorrow

    Date released
    28 Jul 1930
    Series name
    Pathe Super Sound Gazette
    Issue no
    30/17
    NoS ID
    088545
    Story no
    7 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Tragedy ended President Hindenburg’s triumphal tour when crowded pontoon bridge collapsed drowning over 50 people.

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  3. Police drowned at Blackpool (1983)

    Genre
    Press conference

    Press conference account by survivor PC Mark Hewitson of the accidental drowning of his colleagues Angela Bradley, Gordon Connolly and Colin Morrison when they went to the aid of a man in the sea.

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  4. Youthful Cinema Hero

    Date released
    2 Apr 1917
    Series name
    Gaumont Graphic
    Issue no
    629
    NoS ID
    076660
    Story no
    5 / 5

    Robert Channing, aged 5, holding his sister’s hand beside waterfall. Kisses her cheek. He had rescued her from drowning because he ‘saw it on the Pictures’.

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  5. Keep Calm, and Live

    Date released
    5 Aug 1963
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    63/63
    NoS ID
    110784
    Story no
    4 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    New training teaches men of three services how to escape from drowning.

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  6. Police Sergeant Hero of the Sea

    Date released
    13 Aug 1925
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    1215; Super Issue No.: 25/56
    NoS ID
    084481
    Story no
    3 / 8
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Sergeant Morgan, who plunged into the sea fully clothed and saved girl from drowning, later wins 40 yards uniform race at Brighton Regatta.

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  7. Land’s End school drowning (1985)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Rita Lamden, mother of Ricci, one of the four boys from Stoke Poges Middle School who drowned during a school trip to Land’s End, on the inquiry report, which criticises headmaster Alec...

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  8. Jacqueline Fletcher infanticide conviction quashed (1992)

    Genre
    Interview

    Euan(?) Smith, solicitor for Jacqueline Fletcher, comments after an Appeal Court overturned her 1988 conviction for drowning her baby Glen who is now believed to have suffererd cot death. On how Jacqueline...

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  9. Pupils from Stoke Poges die in tragic accident (1985)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Report on the outcome of an inquest into the drowning deaths of pupils from Stoke Poges Middle School on holiday at Land’s End, Cornwall. Includes comment from grieving parents; teacher Robin Harrington...

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  10. Enborne Valley Says Stop Dam Scheme

    Date released
    29 Jul 1948
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    1817
    NoS ID
    041168
    Story no
    2 / 7

    Fertile seven thousand acres on Berkshire-Hampshire border, threatened with "drowning" for new London water scheme, is scene of many protests. Lord Teviot leads local opposition.

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