Evacuation of elderly during Toxteth riots

Title

Evacuation of elderly during Toxteth riots

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:01:24

Description

Pastor Dave Valentine explains how he organised a ceasefire with rioters in Toxteth, Liverpool to allow old-aged residents to escape from a burning residential home and on possible causes of the riot. Original actuality (unedited) by Andrew Simmons and Paul Davies on a night of the riots- not clear which is interviewing.

Contributors

Paul Davies?; Andrew Simmons?; David Valentine

Keywords

Damage; Fires; Liverpool; Elderly; Hospitals; Riots; Toxteth; Urban areas; Evacuation; Residential care homes; Fire damage

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