Fire on Old Bethnal Green Road! October 1963

Standard 8mm film Colour Silent 1963 1:39

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Redbridge Museum and Heritage Centre

Subcollection: Bernard Chaplin collection

Locations: Tower Hamlets Vet Old Bethnal Green Road

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Summary: Fire at Cobden House, Old Bethnal Green Road, captured from a nearby rooftop.

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Title number: 20270

LSA ID: LSA/26745

Description: A fire engine arrives to deal with a fire at Cobden House, Bethnal Green. Smoke and flames bellow from between two rows of buildings. Firemen attach the hose to a fire hydrant and run the hose up the road. Curious onlookers gather close to the fire to watch the action. The police also arrive on the scene. Once the fire has been put out, hoses are put away and the fire engine leaves the scene. The crowd begins to dwindle. The action is filmed from an elevated position.

Credits: Chaplin, Bernard (Filmmaker)

Further information: One of the fire appliances leaving has what looks like the number 26 on the side, which was B26 - Bethnal Green fire station.Bernard Chaplin bought his first camera with savings from work in 1958. He continued to shoot on film until he made the transfer to video in 1990. His films form part of a collection, which documents his family life and events in the Borough of Redbridge, as well as trips to central London, family holidays in the UK and abroad.

Whilst not all of these films show the London Borough of Redbridge, they are kept together as an archive of his filmmaking.

Keywords: Fire; crowds; fire engine; domestic fire; rooftop

Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Tower Hamlets; Vet Old Bethnal Green Road

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Subcollection: Bernard Chaplin collection

Locations: Tower Hamlets Vet Old Bethnal Green Road

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brian wrote on October 1, 2017:

one of the fire appliances leaving , has what looks like the number 26 on the side , which was…

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one of the fire appliances leaving , has what looks like the number 26 on the side , which was B26 which was Bethnal green fire station

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Fire on Old Bethnal Green Road! October 1963

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