Manchester - Annual Relay Race (1937)

Full title reads: “MANCHESTER“. Manchester, Lancashire. Start of the annual relay race through Manchester - runners are off. Various shots of the contestants running through the streets, batons changing hands, crowds watching, cheering. The winners are Birchfield Harriers. There is no mention of this item in the original paperwork for this issue. It probably belongs to another issue. 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.