Lock Gates Rowed [Sic] Sixty Miles to Mersey

Series

Series Name

British Paramount News

Issue

Issue No.

2209

Date Released

1 May 1952

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Walthamstow Avenue Win Amateur Final
2. 2Cup Final Trailer: a Must for You. Don’t Fail to See the Cup Final in Our Next Issue
3. 3Scouts Cheer Their Queen
4. 4Water Ski Wizards Contest Title
5. 5Atom Bomb. First Pictures Latest Explosion
6. *All Quiet on the Prison Front
7. *Lock Gates Rowed [Sic] Sixty Miles to Mersey

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Summary

Seventeen hundred ton sliding gate for world’s biggest oil dock is towed [sic] sixty miles by sea from Barrow-in-Furness.

Local distribution only

Scotland

Keywords

Ships and boats; Engineering

Library number

20352

Length of story (in feet)

64

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Film Archive

Name

Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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Phone

+44(0)1954 262052

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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