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"Here Lived Mary Newman"

Date released

28 Aug 1930

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

2028

NoS ID

384028

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Mayoress of Saltash unveils tablet to wife of Sir Francis Drake.

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Drake’s Last Voyage (1996 Video)

Producer

Alan Ereira

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

With Drake’s reputation destroyed just eight years after defeating the Spanish Armada, the film retraces his final voyage and finds that, contrary to prevailing belief, it was a shrewdly planned venture...

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Saint George’s Day (1948 Radio)

Series

Children’s Hour

Producer

Derek McCulloch

Radio play for children written by L. du Garde Peach and produced by Derek McCullough. The plot which encompasses the lives of Burbage, Shakespeare, Francis Drake, and Ben Jonson, touches on themes commonly...

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Prince Charles at launch of sea voyage (1978)

Genre

Speech

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales speaks at the launch of a young persons’ round-the-world expedition to mark the 400-year anniversary of Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe. Charles expresses...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Royalist cadet training ship (1982)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Music

Rodney Bennett interviews a group of young volunteers aboard a cruise on the Royalist cadet training ship. Also interview with the Captain Francis Drake on what the cadets learn on board and taking on girls....

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

News in Colour: Sir Francis Chichester Returns

Date released

1 Jun 1967

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1982A

NoS ID

026911

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: News in Colour - Sir Francis Chichester Returns. DESCRIPTION: After his epic, single-handed round the world voyage in Gipsy Moth Four, Sir Francis Chichester returns to Plymouth, to the...

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When England Was Threatened

Date released

2 Mar 1918

Series name

Pictorial News (Official) / War Office Official Topical Budget

Issue no

340-2

NoS ID

126462

Story no

5 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "The largest mural poster ever painted depicts Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada. Mr Bert Thomas’s painting calls attention to Germany’s threat in 1918." Section of the mural (in...

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Sir Francis

Date released

10 Jul 1967

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1988

NoS ID

026961

Story no

4 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sir Francis. DESCRIPTION: Sir Francis Chichester receives the Accolade of Knighthood from the Queen at a ceremony at Greenwich, recalling another ceremony, nearly four hundred years...

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News in a Nutshell: Sir Francis Drake Plays Bowls

Date released

14 Oct 1935

Series name

Pathe Super Sound Gazette

Issue no

35/82

NoS ID

092776

Story no

6 / 10

Extras

1 film clip

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Golden Hind

Date released

27 Sep 1964

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

509

NoS ID

121565

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Memories of Sir Francis Drake leap to mind when you see this £25,000 replica at anchor in Brixham Harbour. The guns are silent, even harmless-looking by today’s standards. Yet these are...

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