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Whit Holiday Rail Strike

Series

Series Name
Universal News

Issue

Issue No.
2596
Date Released
2 Jun 1955
Length of issue (in feet)
733
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Whit Holiday Rail Strike
  2. *Whit Walk

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
1 / 1
Summary
Strike scenes (95 feet) Tay River rail crash (52 feet) Road traffic (42 feet) Rambler’s Hotel in Lake District (22 feet) St Paul’s Morris Dancing (28 feet) Tours around London Airport (61 feet) Berlin riots (42 feet) Don Cockell returns (16 feet) Boxing: Famechon v Kelly (90 feet) Goodwood holiday racing (78 feet) Records at British Games (160 feet)
Keywords
Sport; Horse racing; Music and dance; Entertainment and leisure; Customs and traditions; Aviation; Railways; Transport; Athletics; Labour relations; Riots; Accidents and disasters
Length of story (in feet)
686
Story extras:
Production Documents

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Film Archive

Name
Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
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Web
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Phone
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Address
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Notes
British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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