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Saint Albans England United Kingdom 1931 stock footage and images

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Saint Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and Tower Bridge during WW2

London during World War II. View of Saint Paul's Cathedral. YMCA board near Saint Paul’s Cathedral (St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom). Various monuments in London. A barrage balloon in the sky. Entrance to Buckingham Palace. A soldier parades up and down at the Palace gates. People watch from outside. A barrage balloon in the sky. Boats sailing near Tower Bridge (Tower Bridge Rd, London SE1 2UP, United Kingdom) on the Thames River. Soldiers unload food supplies from the boats. Sacks of food piled on a boat. Soldiers and people on a bridge. An Irish policeman keeps vigil on Fleet Street.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675020894
British firemen work to control fire in buildings in London, England following German Luftwaffe Blitz attack (WW2)

War damage in London, England during blitz or blitzkrieg over London in World War II. People walking on the street. Parts of the city of London are on fire. Flames engulf buildings. Firemen at work extinguishing the blazes. Narrow streets filled with debris. The dome of Saint Paul's Cathedral is dimly visible through smoke and glare in the sky. Smoldering ruins and debris on the streets. A postman rummages through the debris for a letterbox. The destroyed church of Saint Lawrence Jewry (Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AA, United Kingdom) next to the Guildhall.

Date: 1940, December 29
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062257
Cross country motor bike race in Richmond England, United Kingdom.

Annual motor bike race in Richmond, England. Motorcycle riders participate in the cross country race. The men get ready for race. Crowd watches as the race starts. The motor bikes race on the hilly terrain. Crowd stand on hills to watch the race. Close up views of the motorcycles as they plunge down dips and approach camera leaping into the air at crest of a hill.

Date: 1931, March 30
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041981
The world’s first commercial jetliner, the de Havilland Comet, departs Hatfield airfield for delivery to BOAC (British Overseas Airways Company)

The British Overseas Airways Company (BOAC) receives their first delivery of the de Havilland Comet, the world’s first commercial jetliner. Employees working at de Havilland gather to witness the departure of the aircraft from the company’s Hatfield airfield aerodrome (Hatfield, Hertfordshire; 3NM NE of St Albans). The de Havilland chief test pilot, John "Cats Eyes" Cunningham, climbs the airstair to board the aircraft. The BOAC de Havilland Comet airplane, registered G-ALYP ("Yoke Peter"), taxis for takeoff. The de Havilland Comet airplane takes off from the airfield. The Comet jet airplane in flight.

Date: 1951, April 2
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049704
Ruins of building and destroyed area in London, England after German blitzkrieg attack (WW2)

War damage in London, England during World War II following aerial blitz bombing by German Luftwaffe. An aerial view of the bomb-damaged city. A view of the destroyed city from Saint Paul's Cathedral gallery (St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom) looking northwest over the city fire damage. Ruins of buildings. Smoke rises in the foreground.

Date: 1941, January
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062255
People gathered at Westminster Abbey to pray for peace in London, England.

People gathered at the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, Westminster Abbey (Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom) in London, England. People read a poster on the wall. A busy street with people walking and vehicles on the road in front of Westminster Abbey. Men and women enter the gate. View of the church building. People pray for peace inside the church.

Date: 1938
Duration: 3 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675064182