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1957: Blackburn's WAKES WEEK Holiday | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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4:28Now PlayingFuture Oscar-winning director John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) directs a short film illustrating the effect on Blackburn of Wakes Week - the annual holiday in the Lancashire cotton towns.
This clip is from Tonight, originally broadcast 16 August, 1957.
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