GUARDS AT HOLYHEAD DOCKS; CLYDE FERRIES; COASTERS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GUARDS AT HOLYHEAD DOCKS; CLYDE FERRIES; COASTERS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BTF 209
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Home Guard on duty at Holyhead station and docks. Setting up Bren gun on AA mounting. Ferry coming in. Police checking civilian passengers' identities as they pass through gate. Troops and civilians getting on (or off?) the Ireland ferry Cambria. II. Ferry Glen Sannox of Glasgow at dockside (probably on the Clyde), and departing. III. Princess Margaret (?) departing in halflight (probably the Clyde). IV. Small coasters Cateli, Runic and Seine, unloading cargoes of rough ingots (scrap iron?) and sackloads. Seine departs. Electric trolleys on quayside. (Probably Scotland)
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: BTF 209
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (BTF 209)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: London Midland and Scottish Railway Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Home Guard (regiment/service) Police (regiment/service) London Midland and Scottish Railway (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, British military - routine (object name) weapons, British - smallarm: Bren (object name) GB, Scotland & Clyde, Firth of (geography) GB, Wales & Holyhead, Anglesey (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 615 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BTF 209

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