| 1,700 FEET BELOW THE MERSEY The Mersey Tunnel is broken through! The Lady Mayor of Liverpool and the Lord Mayor of Birkenhead shake hands through the hole. | ||
|---|---|---|
| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5383 |
| Catalog #: | 54716 | |
| Clip Number: | 54716-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1491 | |
| Timecode: | 01:42:37 - 01:43:43 | |
| Location: | Merseyside. | |
| Year Shot: | 1928 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CONSTRUCTION: Tunnels ENGINEERING: Tunnel, Misc FASHION: Rain Gear LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Merseyside | |
| Description: | 1,700 feet below the Mersey - Lord Mayors of Liverpool & Birkenhead greet each other after last partition of £5,000,000 Tunnel is broken through. The Mersey Tunnel, Merseyside. M/S of a group of men and women walking down a wooden stairway, dressed in sou'westers and rain hats. M/S of them waving handkerchiefs at us as they stand in an open lift, going down; the Lady Mayor of Liverpool, Miss Margaret Bevan, is one of them. M/S shows a man in a sou'wester standing at a rock face in a tunnel; he starts hacking away with a pickaxe. Cut to M/S of Margaret Bevan shaking hands with the Mayor of Birkenhead through the hole in the rock face - the Mersey Tunnel is broken through! (The Mayors have their chains on over their sou'westers.) M/S of the two Mayors pose for the camera with another gentleman; they all have their hands joined on something I can't quite make out - a pickaxe? Brief shot of the other gentleman making a speech as the Mayors stand beside him; we can see the faces of workmen grinning in the background, looking through the hole. | |
WPA FILM LIBRARY
