| CLEVER AMATEUR FIREMEN Flax Mills are saved from destruction by the company's own fire brigade when they catch light in Selby. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5220 |
| Catalog #: | 496897 | |
| Clip Number: | 496897-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 799 | |
| Timecode: | 01:49:09 - 01:50:16 | |
| Location: | Selby, North Yorkshire. | |
| Year Shot: | 1921 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Fires FIREFIGHTING: Work LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Yorkshire | |
| Description: | Clever amateur firemen. Flax Mills worth quarter of a million saved from destruction by company's own fire brigade. Selby, North Yorkshire. M/S of piles of burnt flax on the ground, a man holds a hose over it while others walk about. The camera pans across the smouldering pile to another man hosing it down. Various shots of men hosing the smoking flax. M/S of men using pitchforks to move the flax away while it is still smouldering. | |
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