Heath fire near Basingstoke and Camberley, England

Item Information

Title:
Heath fire near Basingstoke and Camberley, England
Description:
Copy image: More than a thousand troops from Aldershot equipped with steel helmet and gas masks assisted by hundreds of firemen, police, and civilians fought the huge heathland fire between Hartley, Wintney near Basingstoke, and Minley, near Camberley. Thousands of acres of heathland have been destroyed as well as hundreds of thousands of fire trees planted under an afforestation scheme. Photo shows troops stripped to the waist and wearing steel helmets fighting the fire at Minley Woods. Acme picture.
Photographer:
Blackington, Alton H.
Date:
[ca. September 6, 1933]
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Black-and-white photographs
Glass plate negatives
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Alton H. Blackington Collection
Subjects:
Fire fighters--Great Britain--Photographs
Fires--Great Britain--Photographs
Natural disasters--Great Britain--Photographs
Extent:
1 photograph ; 12.5 x 10 cm.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph061-sl228-i001
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
England
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph061-sl228-i001