| LORD CHELMSFORD Lord Chelmsford opens the first of four new Pithead baths, erected by the Miners Welfare Committee at Pooley Hall Colliery. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5384 |
| Catalog #: | 54926 | |
| Clip Number: | 54926-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | G 1494 | |
| Timecode: | 01:22:05 - 01:23:24 | |
| Location: | Polesworth, Warwickshire | |
| Year Shot: | 1928 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BEAUTY CULTURE: Bathing LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Warwickshire | |
| Description: | Lord Chelmsford - opens new installation of first of four Pithead baths erected by Miners Welfare Committee at Pooley Hall Colliery. Polesworth, Warwickshire. M/S shows a large group of men and women standing beside a covered platform where Lord Chelmsford is making a speech. M/S of Chelmsford talking before a microphone on a table. M/S shows a crowd of men in bowler hats walking down the steps to the new wash house; Lord Chelmsford, at the head of the group, unlocks the door and hands the key and a document to another man; the group goes inside. Inside the baths we see the group walk along a corridor with several small cubicles leading off it. M/S of miners alongside the wash house. | |
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