MAIL BAGS; BOMBED BRIDGE; AIR RAID NOTICES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MAIL BAGS; BOMBED BRIDGE; AIR RAID NOTICES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BTF 217
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Loading mail bags into train at Euston station. II. Damaged bridge over railway (probably north London). III. Policeman donning helmet and putting out notice: "Air raid in progress - shelter across the road". Notice at Euston station side entrance: "There is no passenger air raid shelter on this station".
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BTF 217
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (BTF 217)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: London Midland and Scottish Railway Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: London Midland and Scottish Railway (regiment/service) Police (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name) society, British - precautionary: Air Raid Precautions (object name) transport, British civilian - rail: mail train (object name) GB, England & London, NW <Euston Station> (geography) North London, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 215 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BTF 217

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