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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

453

Title

DOWN TO THE SEA

Producer

Cuthbert J. Cayley/Kinograph Distrib.

Date

1938

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

sound

Running Time

16 mins 00 secs

Description

Follows the River Mersey - source at the Cat and Fiddle Inn (called the Goyt here); Fernilee Reservoir; Stockport; Manchester Ship Canal; Warrington; Runcorn Transporter Bridge - loading and crossing; Speke airport; the estuary - Birkenhead and Liverpool - docks and shipping; Mersey Tunnel, overhead railway, and Mersey ferries.
[The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]

 

 



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