View of Nancy Witcher Astor, (Viscountess Astor), the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament, in London, England. Nancy Astor, an advocate of prohibition, poses as she gets the Parliament support to prohibit liquor for minors. Officials in the background. View of a bridge overlooking a body of water, with a hillside in the background; possibly Plymouth on the Plymouth Sound, which Lady Astor represented. Two British navy warships decorated with bunting. A motorboat in the foreground.
Women display feathered bonnets in London, England. Women wearing feather bonnet at a gathering. A woman adjusts the bonnet onto another woman. Girls display feathered bonnet for the city girls club. A man wearing a cap. A girl wearing an eye mask. The judge presents a trophy to the winner Mrs. Robin Wilson.
A woman flies a small airplane in Liverpool, England. A young woman pulls a small 'airplane roadster' across an airfield. She poses with a small dog at the airplane, then places some golf club luggage in a rear compartment of the fuselage, and a briefcase or suitcase in a front compartment. Her dog is sitting in the airplane. The woman places a large suitcase in a forward fuselage compartment, climbs in the cockpit, checks her makeup in a mirror, and then takes off. People standing near a car watch. (This is a Comper Swift monoplane, filmed at Hooton Park, near Liverpool, where these planes were made. Probably the first one built, filmed for publicity, It is powered by a 40 hp ABC Scorpion piston engine. Later versions had a more powerful radial engine.)
100th anniversary celebration of the first cargo of the British tea in London, England. Cargo unloaded at St Katharine Docks. Cargo being packed on backs of elephants for a parade to the auction rooms at Mincing Lane. People and elephants in a parade.
Riots break in the city of Manchester, England as a bystander is killed. Policemen investigate near a bombed area on a street. Men look at the damaged area. Concrete pieces spread on a street. Broken window panes of a shop. A damaged building. People and policemen stand on street. Bombs kept in a building. A power grid. A house beside the power grid. A tree in the foreground.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother is greeted in London, England. She is presented with a bouquet. She is greeted by men and she talks to people.
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