Cotton Fire - Liverpool (1910-1920)

Fire in a Liverpool cotton mill. Merseyside. Flames coming from mill with fire engines’ ladders extended - one ladder very high. Next a shot with CU part of wall at right; and smoke coming from cotton bales below at left. MS firefighter up on a ladder; half-hidden by the smoke pouring out the windows, pan slowly down ladder to other firemen on ground by truck. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.
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