• Short Summary

    A scale model shows the plans to modernise Hastings, shops will be built beneath road system.

  • Description

    Title reads: "Britain's First Double Decker Dream Town".

    Hastings, Sussex.

    A scale model of Hastings showing what vision and planning can do to a town. General shots of the model: automated miniature traffic travels past modern buildings. Three men, probably town planners, look at model pointing out different bits. One of them, Mr. F. Adams built the model. They lift up a section of road around the war memorial to reveal a second layer: beneath the road system will be shops, bus stations and subways. M/S of real war memorial in Hastings.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1412.21
    Media URN:
    45987
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathe
    Issue Date:
    10/10/1946
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:00:48:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:27:51:00 / 01:28:39:00
    Canister:
    46/81

Comments (1)

  1. tdkthomas says

    Love the film of my grandad, he is the one with glasses, the only thing his name was Mr Brian Adnams
    and not Mr F Adams, unless it was one of the other gentlemen.

    But thank you for the film he died when I was 10 years old

    Many thanks Terry

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