The Changing Face of London

Series

Series Name
Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.
394
Date Released
16 Jul 1962
Date recorded
22 Jun 1962
Length of issue (in feet)
738
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 2
Summary
NoS Summary - Aspects of old and new London, including skyscrapers, the Whitbread shire horses pulling a dray, old houses on a bombsite being demolished, and the shire horses on ‘holiday’ in a meadow.
Researcher Comments
Commentary: Then we see the changing face of London. The familiar skyline. The modern skyscraper buildings. A mixture of old and new. We see splendid brewers’ horses passing the new glass and concrete towers. We see a bomb site, one of the many cast areas being cleared by demolition. Here gangs of hard-working labourers are pulling down the large town houses, and replacing them with miraculous speed with lofty elegant office-buildings and flats. For the horses, away for a holiday in the green Kent countryside, the streets through which they haul their drays become unfamiliar overnight.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Horses; Scenery and travel
Locations
London; Kent; England
Written sources
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Credits:
Commentator
Brian Cobby
Length of story (in feet)
511
Story extras:
Film clip

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'The Changing Face of London', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 394, 16 Jul 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121245 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)