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  1. Prime Minister in Cardiff

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097230
    Story no
    1 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Speaks on "encirclement". Sync Sound.

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  2. Mile of the Century

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097231
    Story no
    2 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Sidney Wooderson goes into the lead at the start of the race and is leading when Whitehouse comes alongside and in slow motion we see how his shoulder is pushing in front of Wooderson’s face. Wooderson...

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  3. Fatal Fire in London

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097232
    Story no
    3 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Fire breaks out in a block of offices in Queen Victoria Street, and as a great crowd gathers few realise that a typist is trapped in the flames and is burnt to death.

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  4. Another City Blaze

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097233
    Story no
    4 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    A blaze in a block of offices brings out a general fire brigade call and thirty engines. Three people are injured.

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  5. Belgian Canal Bursts Its Banks

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097234
    Story no
    5 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    The new Albert Canal is the scene of tragic disaster when water is found trickling through one of the embankments. Suddenly the whole embankment becomes covered with cracks and the ground begins to move. One...

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  6. Pigeon Race at Berwick on Tweed

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097235
    Story no
    6 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Forty thousand birds take to the air for a jaunt of hundreds of miles.

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  7. Big Blast at Westmorland

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097236
    Story no
    7 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    A hundred thousand tons of rock are brought down by ten tons of gun powder from a quarry in Westmorland.

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  8. Cotton Queen at Blackpool

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097237
    Story no
    8 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    18 year old Elsie Kerseley, a weaver in a mill, is the new Cotton Queen.

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  9. Leeds Children’s Day

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097238
    Story no
    9 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    And in Yorkshire too, a Queen is crowned, this time a little girl by the name of Vera Stony.

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  10. Irish Bomb Outrage

    Date released
    29 Jun 1939
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    39/52
    NoS ID
    097239
    Story no
    10 / 13
    Extras
    1 film clip

    Another series of bomb outrages, with explosions at Piccadilly Circus and Aldwych, in Piccadilly and Park Lane. Seventeen people are injured.

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