British professional boxers take on members of the Press in a football game to benefit the National Playing Fields Association. in London. Crowd in stand. Movie cinema star Gracie Fields shake hands with captains and then gives the first kick to the ball. Game in progress.After the game, British boxing Champion, Len Harvey, is besieged by boy autograph hunters.
Model ships of London's Model Boat Club being put on display and competing in Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, London. Crowd gathered at the pond to watch the proceedings. Model Boat Club members operate scale model replicas of famous ocean liners and attempt to maneuver them between floating obstacles.
Artillery demonstrations at British Army Royal School of Artillery, Larkhill, on the south edge of Salisbury, England. Gun crews ride in Light Dragon MkII tractors towing 18 pounder field artillery pieces. They wheel about and set up a long battery of artillery that begins firing. Military spectators line the field to watch the demonstrations. Autogyro used for observation lands behind a smoke source. Troops begin firing trench mortars. Tanks race at hight speed through smoke on the demonstration field. Battery of 4.5 inch howitzers seen firing. As the demonstration concludes, MkII tractors tow 4.5 inch howitzers away as spectators disperse.
King Edward VIII arrives at Westminster Abbey. Exteriors of Westminster Abbey (Westminster Abbey, 20 Dean’s Yard, London, SW1P 3PA). King Edward VIII arrives by car. King Edward with Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Gordon Lang enters Westminster Abbey. King Edward shakes hands with church dignitaries outside church. King hands out coins to elderly men and women.
British General G.B.O. Taylor and the Director of bomb disposal, observe troops engaged in recovery actions following bombings during the London Blitz. Troops stand on rubble. Men clear debris along side of road. Men work near damaged building. Troops work with communication wires.
Physician and nurse treating a hospital patient with radiotherapy. Flashing light signals air raid and treatment must cease. Patient is moved elswhere and physician, using chain and sling, lowers radioactive source into protective sleeve and lowers it into concrete floor below.
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