Full title reads: "Bedford. In the shadow of John Bunyan and John Howard's statues- Bedford's most distinguished sons - Sir Reginald Poole opens magnificent new entrance gates of famous centuries-old Grammar school."
Full title reads: "Bedford. In the shadow of John Bunyan and John Howard's statues- Bedford's most distinguished sons - Sir Reginald Poole opens magnificent new entrance gates of famous centuries-old Grammar school."
Bedford, Bedfordshire.
A speech is made (presumably by Sir Reginald Poole) to seated crowd. Gathered pupils of the Bedford Grammar School stand at the back.
Shots of the new school gates being opened. Public schoolboys and masters walk through the gates.
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