New Town commercial area in Harlow, England, 1954, ten years after WW2. British people move about on foot and bicycle. Customers peering through shop windows, a long line stretchers from a store labeled "Rudgewick." Scene changes to view of multistory school building. Children roller skate in a nearby paved lot. Second angle of the school, with scaffolding surrounding and secondary, smaller building, designed in the same style, off to the side.
View of shopping and commercial district in the New Town of Harlow, England, 1954, ten years after WW2. British people move about on foot and bicycle. Young children walk beside parents, stroller pushed by mother. Motor car drives up and parks beside the shops, flat bed truck drives past. Close up of building sign "New Town Pets." Inside, two girls and a boy stand together with a cat in their arms. View of a shop's window display. "Tartan Bag Shop" and "Gas Service" signs above different buildings. Wider view of the street with people bustling about, stray dog. Close up of young boy's face. Two women leave their children in strollers by the curb and walk towards a store entrance.
Elevated view of British industrial region of Birmingham, England, in 1954, ten years after WW2. Structural frame of building in the foreground, large cooling towers and smokestacks in the distance. Cars and buses drive on a roadway lined by trees. The view pans left, showing more of the skeletal building in the foreground. New elevated position shows residential housing in the foreground and industrial zones stretching into the distance. Smokestacks and mega-scale construction project in the background. Closer views of the skeletal frame of a many story building.
Elevated view of landmarks in London, England, in 1954, ten years after WW2. Panning camera shot shows old derelict building. Across the River Thames are Big Ben and British Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster). Boats on the water. Second shot shows roadway with the Thames in the background. Motor cars, pedestrians, and a double-decker bus on the street. View of Big Ben and Westminster Bridge.
The film 'Churchill's Island' about Germany's successive attacks over England during World War II. British soldiers near artillery at a coast. Views of the British Channel. The soldiers observe through binoculars. A gun barrel. British soldiers prepare for their air raid protection. Soldiers atop a building observe through binoculars. Pedestrian traffic on a road. People on bicycles. British people work in ordnance factories. View of aircraft wheel folding into airplane under construction. View of bomb bay with bombs loaded opening on a plane under construction. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, speaks. A German railroad gun driven on a ramp. Shells in the railroad gun. German soldiers close their ears as the railroad guns hurl shells over the English Channel. Views of the railroad guns and explosions over the English Channel. An officer stands leaning against a wall and speaks. The wing of a taxiing German aircraft. Other aircraft in the background. German aircraft in flight. A British soldier holding a gun runs across a field. A British soldier on a motorbike. Soldiers stand on a tank. Two soldiers with artillery. Policemen get ready. They move out of a building on a motorbike. Policemen help people to move underground as an alarm rings. Officials in front of a map inside a hall.
Huge crowd at Grand national at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, England. A man sells tickets to people. Race started and after crossing a barrier, three jockeys with their horses fall. Spectators with binoculars see race. Nicolaus Silver comes in between crowd.
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