Subsiding Town Mining Subsidence In A Swadlincote Causes Buildings To Fall Apart And Roads To Slope Footage

SUBSIDING TOWN Mining subsidence in a Swadlincote causes buildings to fall apart and roads to slope.
This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA.	Tape Master:	7177
	Catalog #:	24936
	Clip Number:	24936-1
	Orginal Film:	NP 531
	Timecode:	01:21:04 - 01:23:08
	Location:	Swadlincote, Derbyshire.
	Year Shot:	1954 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	CONSTRUCTION: Restoration & Repair DISASTERS: Landslides INDUSTRY/MINING: Misc LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England
	Description:	SUBSIDING TOWN Mining subsidence in a Swadlincote causes buildings to fall apart and roads to slope. Swadlincote, Derbyshire. LS Coal mine. Coal mine camera pans from this to houses. CU Notice reading Mining subsidence - Danger road surface Camera following car as it goes over humpy road. CU Road showing dips in it. LS Houses in bad state. LS House with scaffolding around it men are busy working. MS Two men by the house are holding a plank along the roadway showing how much the road has fallen. CU Man holding the stick by plank he is measuring how much the roadway has fallen. LS Children playing in school playground. Camera pans from this to school which is being held up by scaffolding. MS Showing school being held up by scaffolding. MS Public library. CU Showing beams of wood that have split from the walls of the library. LS Interior of library. A woman wheels in a trolley which contains books. She stops by bookshelf to put new books from trolley onto shelves. As she does so the trolley starts to run away. She looks and runs after it. CU Wooden blocks on library floor that have been forced up. CU (Exterior) Sign reading This property is dangerous keep out. MS Showing walls of church that are very badly cracked. CU Camera panning up walls of church showing the large cracks. LS Man walking up to house. MS Man walks up to brickwall of house and looks at very large crack by baywindow. CU Showing man pulling pieces of cement from large crack in wall. LS Showing men working on house scaffolding is all around it. MS Showing man filling in cracks with cement. LS House showing large cracks in wall by side of the house is a notice reading No Admittance. Camera panning over large cracks in wall. MS Large cracks in wall. MS Showing windowsill of house it is sloping sideways. Dissolve to - MS Interior two men are looking at a model site of houses. CU Model layout a man is pointing over model town. Dissolve to - MS Two men looking at plan (Exterior). MS Camera pans from men looking at plan over to workmen building new houses. LS New houses. (2 shots). LS Town.