Description: 38” Poor quality black and white footage of tug boats (with smoke billowing from chimneys) pulling a large boat. 57” Further footage of different types of boats in docks with industrial buildings and chimneys in the background.

1’28” A tug with its chimney lowered to enable it to go under a bridge.

1’38” Tower Bridge opening and closing before two policemen allow horses and carts and vehicles to cross.

2’08” Footage of the industrial dockland buildings and people working in them. Two men load sacks. Two horses eat from bags around their necks. A man rolls a barrel for loading. A crane operating outside the Prospect of Whitby (Wapping wall).

2’42” View of a street name, Wapping Old Stairs, on a wall. View of the exterior of the Town of Ramsgate pub on Wapping High Street. Sign for Port of London Authority Cherry Garden Pier (Bermondsey Wall East). Street signs for Nightingale? Lane, Oliver House. Bermondsey Wall.

3’08” ‘Behind the Wall’. View of people walking through a tunnel. Tall chimneys. People walking around and area of industrial buildings with metal walkways linking them above the road. Sign for the Ministry of Labour Employment Exchange on Marylebone Road NW1. Men queuing.

3’49” Sign saying:

All out to

(?) National Hunger

Marchers

Thurs Oct,27th

Berm. Town Hall

12 Noon

Likely this was 1932?

3’53” Footage of a large building (possibly Time and Talents building 187 Bermondsey Street) with iron structure on top. Sign saying:

Time and Talents Club House

Small Girls Club Starts

5.30

To-night

Further views of the same building.

4’21” Street sign for Sard’s Rents. Footage of houses, children playing and adults walking in the street.

5’01” ‘The Blue’. Footage of a busy market place – The Blue Market on Southwark Park Road.

5’34” ‘The Playing Fields of Bermondsey’ Children playing football in the street and having to stop for the occasional car or carriage. Views of the river and children playing on a site in the docks before being told off by an adult and running away.

7’38” Girls playing hopscotch. A clock shows the time of 5.20pm and the girls run off to wait to be let into a building at 5.30pm. they run through the building (the Time and Talents Club?). Footage of girls dancing on what looks like the roof of the building with the iron structure shown earlier. 9’32” Girls taking out books from a library, presumably in the same room. Footage of them reading books and newspapers. Girls making model dolls’ houses using matchboxes to make furniture. Girls painting, knitting and sewing, then washing and hanging up clothes. At 6.30pm the girls get together for a religious gathering.

12’40” ‘Camp’. View of tents and boy scouts being inspected. A camp rota is shown. Boys carry water buckets with water to be heated for tea on the camp fire. Boys bang their plates waiting for food. Food is dished out. 15’12” They play cricket and then play in the field in their pyjamas before being told to go to bed. They keep running out of the tent.

16’33” A man operates a moving bridge in the docks. Footage of boats on the river.