British Movietone
LONDON BRIDGE ON THAMES
The remaining stonework of Old London Bridge is being removed. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
Press Association
Eggborough cooling towers demolished
Four huge cooling towers have been demolished at the former Eggborough power station. The 300ft high structures in North Yorkshire were brought down just after 8am on Sunday. The coal-fired power station was decommissioned in 2018 and...
British Movietone
THE GERMAN SCENE
LANDMARK REMOVED - Two ""Temples of Honour"" which Hitler had erected in Munich have now been demolished. ® MINERS GET HOUSES - Nissen huts are being used to re-house miners in the Ruhr area. ® WINTER NOW THE ENEMY - A spell of bitter...
British Movietone
STALINGRAD TODAY
The ruined city of Stalingrad needs extensive rebuilding and many people are living in the underground cellars of ruined houses. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video...
British Movietone
HOSPITAL TO HOTEL
A century of Hospital Progress - from the vast edifice at Netley in Hampshire, opened by Queen Victoria in 1856 to Britain's latest - the multi-million hospital at High Wycombe. Netley is being demolished - but beneath the foundation...
British Movietone
MAKE WAY FOR THE NEW
An old bridge near Aachen in Germany has been replaced by a new one, so the old one's being blown down. The charges are placed in such a way that the old structure falls the right way without harming the new bridge which is just a few...
British Movietone
THE CHURCHILL CHURCH
St. Mary's Aldermanbury - a London church is being dismantled stone by stone before shipping the whole building to America, it will be rebuilt as it stood in London - on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton Missouri, as a memorial...
British Movietone
DOWN AND UP
French workmen, clearing an old factory site left the most difficult job to the last - the chimney, over 130 feet high which had to be destroyed. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within...
British Movietone
THE TOWERS OF LONDON (in colour)
Some 250 tall buildings have changed the face of London since the war. For 260 years, the dome of St. Paul's has towered supreme above the City. Part of Sir Christopher Wren's design for London after the Great Fire, it lived through that...
British Movietone
HOUSING - OLD AND NEW
The demolition and rebuilding of the Gorbals District of Glasgow. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical...
British Movietone
CHIMNEY DEMOLITION
The two lofty chimneys of a power station in Southern England are demolished, but on film it's possible to put them together again. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the...
Bridgeman Arts
Demonstrations of Violence
Shots used to portray a riot breaking out - filmed for a trailer. Includes breaking glass, flames, people threatening behavior to camera, waving Molotov Cocktails.
Bridgeman Arts
WWI, ground, naval and aerial warfare, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff
WWI, ground, naval and aerial warfare, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff
Press Association
Demolition starts at flat where couple were poisoned with Novichok
The flat where a woman was fatally poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok is being demolished. Dawn Sturgess, 44, collapsed at her partner Charlie Rowley’s home on June 30 2018 after coming into contact with a perfume bottle containing...
Press Association
Moment giant Redcar blast furnace is demolished
The Redcar Blast Furnace, Casting Houses, the Dust Catcher and Charge Conveyors, at the former steelworks site which have dominated the Teesside skyline for over four decades, are brought down by controlled explosion.
Bloomberg
China Evergrande Shares Halted on Demolition Report
Shares of Chinese property developers tumbled earlier after reports that China Evergrande Group has been ordered to tear down apartment blocks in Hainan Province. Evergrande halted trading in its shares but that didn't stop other...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Israeli forces destroy properties around Palestinian family house facing eviction
Heavy machinery destroys properties in flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah, following a standoff between Israeli police and a Palestinian man who carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home as his family faced eviction (Footage by AFPTV via...
AFP News Agency
VOICED : Architectural history in tiny Tokyo capsules
VOICED : Architectural history in tiny Tokyo capsules
Bridgeman Arts
Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 3 - shots of houses in disrepair, kids playing on street in working class neighbourhood, demolition of old houses
Clip from a documentary type account of the slums of London and the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council in slum clearance and building and its plans in the...
Sky News
Germany sets clean energy target as villages are lost to a coal mine
VOICED: Shows aerial and exterior shots area of land where village of Immerath used to be but now demolished to make way for an open cast coal mine, interview with former resident, aerial and exterior shots huge RWE's open cast...
Bridgeman Arts
Somewhere Decent to Live 1967 part 8 - family at home, demolition site, council housing
Clip from a documentary type account of the provision of new housing for Londoners. Looks at London's housing shortage, the work of the Greater London Council. Surveys opinions of tenants rehoused on GLC estates as to their new houses...
Curated Video
RR7735 SOUTH AFRICA CAPE TOWN SQUATTERS
The Bantu Administration Board for the Cape peninsula
ordered the demolition of shanties, in the hope that
squatters would return to their tribal homelands.
But the action has resulted in making some 170,000
blacks homeless during the...
Curated Video
Nassau Training Report
Story 8 ref 226 C 6200 b&w mute
Nassau Training Report 1940s
02:31:30 On the training of OSS personnel for underwater demolition at Salt Key, Nassau, in the Bahama Islands during World War II.
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Curated Video
SYND 1 7 73 BATH REDEVELOPMENT BUILDING SCENES.
The city of Bath is subject to new redevelopment schemes that threaten to clash with its Georgian past.
1. ms sign 'Bath Georgian City', zoom in to city
2. ws new building pan to church spire
3. ws Georgian bridge
4. ws Royal Crecent
5....