• Short Summary

    A look at the crooked houses in Dudley caused by subsidence from mine works. The Midlands.

  • Description

    Crooked houses - Dudley.

    The Midlands.

    L/S's pans across coal and tin mines in countryside. M/S's of town centre and streets. Various shots of crooked houses due to subsidence, doorways and doorsteps are sloping, and walls have cracked and come unstuck, chimneys lean together. Various shots of the drunken looking houses. They are going to be knocked down and replaced with new ones.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1284.02
    Media URN:
    42800
    Group:
    New sound pictorials
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    11/01/1940
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:18:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:01:40:00 / 01:02:58:00
    Canister:
    NSP 197

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