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London stockshots - Tower Bridge - horseguards on sentry duty. Horse-drawn delivery van from Scotts of Piccadily - drivers in top hats. Two men in top hats having conversation. Rural countryside - farms - agriculture. Manor house - home of Washington family. Gravestone of William Penn. Farmer driving tractor in orchard. Tractor ploughing / plowing - good shot line of tractors through field (British farmers are the most mechanized in the world) Night shots - Houses of Parliament - night shots Piccadilly - London West End with lights. Bovril sign. Blackout and blitz during WWII. Construction / building work in post war London - bricklayers. Blocks of council flats. Interior grocery shop / store - woman buying food - weighing bacon on scales - weighing butter - some food still on ration. Cheese weighed. Exterior: Liptons grocery shop. Housewife having ration book marked. Housewife leaves with her shopping. Flashback to Jarrow in 1930s - closed factories. Depression, men on street corners - closed shops. 08:16:01 Summer 1950 - same street, shops open and prospering. Shipyards - docks - stock of ships propellers. Open cast mining of ?. Farmland next to factories. Interior factory - production lines - women workers taking bars of soap? from line. Interior cotton mill - women working on looms. Scotland - whisky production. Shots distillery - old man rolling barrels marked with Glenlivet etc. Interior man in white coat smelling whisky in glasses and identifying which malt they are. Bottling plant - bottles on production line - being labeled. Export shops for tourists - tax free. Man being shown suiting material, socks and other men's clothes. Wife trying jumper. Part 2 Exterior Firestone factory - interior tyre /tire production. Rubber - carbon black - Finished tyre. Tractor factory - man driving finished tractor at speed. Tractors on back of flatbed truck for transportation. Trucks - British road services - loaded with various machinery for export to help the economy. Line of Vauxhall cars along road - sign in window Manufactured by Vauxhall of Luton. Cars lined up on dock waiting for loading onto ship. Barge taking on grain USA - shops in America selling British goods. Traffic on roads. 5th Avenue shops. Woman shopping in British Tweed store. British furniture and Church's shoe shop in New York. UK - Food imports - unloading meat/carcasses at docks. Port of London. English leisure pursuits - crowds at swimming pool - men playing bowls - Old Pub - interior pub people drinking. Landlord calls time. Montage shots - going to work, walking across bridge - traffic - Train crossing bridge (Forth ?). If you need broadcast quality of this film or want to know more about our public domain collection, contact us at info@footagefarm.co.uk