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1929 CHRISTMAS: Supplying Christmas Hampers to Lightships on the Mersey
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1:15Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1929
Location: England, UK
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
SLATE INFORMATION - 'Christmas Cheer! Hampers for lightship crews delivered under difficulties in the Mersey.'
ENGLAND: Merseyside:
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BAR Lightship / Formby Lightship / hamper being prepared to be passed across to lightship using ropes / man using loudhailer to communicate with lightship crew / hamper collected by lightship crew / people waving / lightship just seen through gloom / ship delivering hamper to lightship / people singing / man speaking through loudhailer / Crosby Lightship
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