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Great Mersey Enterprise Completed

Date released

20 Apr 1931

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

2095

NoS ID

385500

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Mr. Walter Graham, President of the Board of Trade, opens Bromborough Dock, started December, 1924.

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Down To The Sea In Bits!

Date released

4 Jun 1931

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

2108

NoS ID

385234

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Due to its immense proportions, new floating dock made at Newcastle-on-Tyne for Wellington (N.Z.) has to be launched in sections.

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The Prince At Merseyside

Date released

9 Nov 1931

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

2153

NoS ID

385604

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: H.R.H. as Master of the Merchant Navy, makes a tour of the docks.

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GPO fathoms a problem

Date released

1946

Series name

Britain Can Make It

Issue no

10

NoS ID

352060

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: Setting up an undersea repeater station to improve cable commmunication with the Continent

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Sea Shells

Date released

23 Apr 1956

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

069

NoS ID

120192

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Sea-shell importer Millicent Rich is seen with various exotic shells in her Balham, London, flat.

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School for Divers

Date released

11 Aug 1958

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

189

NoS ID

120597

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: "Skin diving" with aqualungs has recently become a favourite holiday sport - but it also has many commercial uses. At a famous diving school at Chessington, Surrey, we see how divers, both...

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Lamp-Lighters of the Sea

Date released

22 May 1961

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

334

NoS ID

121063

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Shows the crew of a Trinity House ship, the "Vestal", cleaning and repairing lightships and buoys in the Thames Estuary.

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Army Frogmen

Date released

4 Sep 1961

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

349

NoS ID

121108

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Trainee divers from the Royal Engineers perform various tasks.

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Skin Diving

Date released

Feb 1963

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

10

NoS ID

327548

Story no

5 / 5

NoS synopsis: The new activity of skin diving for work or recreation relies on rubber for the aqualung and wet-suit. This item provides a brief history of diving, including the invention in 1943 of the...

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Diving to Riches

Date released

Sep 1963

Series name

Carrousel Britanico

Issue no

2

NoS ID

324587

Story no

1 / 7

COI synopsis: Twenty years ago people only dived in search of fish, pearls and sponges. Nowadays the invention of the aqualung has started a tremendous new development - the systematic underwater farming of...

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