THE LOST CITY OF EXETER

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Exeter is a city of great beauty and a place very close to my heart. These are a few still images sourced from the public domain and edited together to make this montage. The damage to the Odeon Cinema by a wartime bomb can still be seen today if you look at the chunks missing from the steps and entrance way. It must be said the City Council are systematicaly finishing the work of the Luftwaffe, and so…

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THE LOST CITY OF EXETER

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Exeter is a city of great beauty and a place very close to my heart. These are a few still images sourced from the public domain and edited together to make this montage. The damage to the Odeon Cinema by a wartime bomb can still be seen today if you look at the chunks missing from the steps and entrance way. It must be said the City Council are systematicaly finishing the work of the Luftwaffe, and so…

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Michael Collins Part 1 1890 to 1917

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Directed and edited by Marcus Howard. Part 1. Members of Michael Collins family and historians and book authors Joseph EA Connell Jr, Tim Pat Coogan, Marcus Howard and members of the Collins 22 Society recount the early stage of his life from childhood, those who influenced him, London, the 1916 Rising and his thoughts on it, his time in Frongoch, and how he started to become the famous icon of Irish history. The film attempts to humanise Collins…

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The Session: The Pogues & The Dubliners (Special Guest Joe Strummer)

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RTÉ recording from 1987 - This recording is from TG4 17th/18th March 2017. The set list: Streams Of Whiskey The Ballinalee If I Should Fall From Grace With God The Dubliners set I Fought The Law London Calling Lullaby Of London South Australia The Repeal Of The Licencing Laws Turkish Song Of The Damned The Irish Rover

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Borstal Boy

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Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as "the enemy," a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both…

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Exeter Devon England 1970s old cine film

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Old Cine film of Exeter Devon England from the 1970s. If you enjoy looking at old cine films, please subscribe to my channel as I have a large collection of films that I am working through and I try to upload at least two new films a week of clips that I think could be of interest to other people. You can buy me a coffee if you want to help support what I am doing at https://bmc.link/geoffclaydon…

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Survival! The Shackleton Story

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To license this clip go to http://www.natgeomotion.com/bell/clip/447N01W_112.do Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew took bitter defeat and turned it into heroic survival.Early this century, members of the imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition watched as their ship, the Endurance was crushed by the frozen sea.They were left with no radio and no hope of rescue.For more than a year, they drifted on packed ice, surviving on seal, penguin, and eventually dog meat, while battling freezing temperatures and mind-numbing boredom.When Shackleton, along…

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