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After WW2, new towns were designed as social utopias to create (in the words of the post-war government) "a new type of citizen, a healthy, self-respecting, dignified person with a sense of beauty, culture...
Includes Southend publicity films from 1936, 1953 and 1959, Leigh-on-Sea in the 1930s, Londoners on a day trip 1948, and the Queen Mother opening the new Civic Centre in 1967.
Film history of Southend Pier from the 19th century to the present day. Scenes include the visit of the Fleet in 1909, the installation of new trains in 1949, a 1953 holiday publicity film and the pier...
A record of life on the River Crouch in Essex. Includes interviews with the farming community and people from old established businesses that relied on the river’s existence for their survival. Filmed in...
Sequences include the Fleet at Southend 1909, oyster fisheries at Brightlingsea 1920, Marconi works at Chelmsford 1934, holiday makers at Clacton, Alan Cobham’s Flying Circus at Brentwood, newspaper...
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