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  • Miniature Railway (1936)

    🎬British Pathé – A small scale railway carries passengers around the grounds of a large house. Shots of a steam engine starting off along the track. It looks real but as the shot widens we see that it is a scale model and is being driven by a young child sitting in the cab. The miniature railway was started by the brothers Holder in the 1890s. Various shots around the mini railway - there are several engines, engine sheds. lots of track etc. The carriages are big enough to carry adults. Shots of two men in a workshop doing repairs to the wheels of a train. Various shots of the trains on their 10 1/4 inch gauge tracks. We see a young Miss Mary Cook feeding coal to the boiler before she drives the train off along the tracks from the engine shed. Various nice shots from on board the train as it travels around the extensive grounds of the house
    389 Views
  • Historic Cars In New Museum (1959)

    🎬British Pathé – Guest from the world of motoring attend opening of Montagu Motor Museum at Beaulieu. Titles read: "HISTORIC CARS IN NEW MUSEUM". Hampshire. L/S of Beaulieu Abbey with flowers in foreground. Various shots of guests arriving at Palace House, Beaulieu for the opening of the new Montagu Motor Museum. Lord Montagu and his fiancee Belinda Crossley greet people, including the mother of the late Mike Hawthorn, Stirling Moss and his wife Katie. Several shots of veteran cars in the exhibition hall. M/S of Sir Henry Segrave's Sunbeam car. We see the 1906 Renault that Montagu will drive to his wedding. Lord Brabazon of Tara unveils a commemorative plaque on the wall while Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks and Raymond Mays applaud. Outside Beaulieu Abbey the guests watch a drive past of several veteran cars, including an Hispano-Suiza and a Leon Bollee from 1895
    421 Views
  • The Changing Face of the M27 (2015)

    🎬August 1975 marked the 40th anniversary of the opening of the M27 motorway. Paul Clifton looks back at the sometimes dramatic life of the road.

    The first section of the motorway near Southampton opened in August 1975. The original idea was for a south coast motorway stretching from Kent to Cornwall. For financial reasons, this would never happen.

    BBC South Today Production
    19th August 2015
    686 Views
  • Fawley Refinery (1953)

    🎬British Pathé – A look at the exterior of Fawley oil refinery in Southampton, Hampshire. Fawley refinery. Southampton, Hampshire. Various shots of oil tanker in dock with pipes running from it, camera pans across to oil refinery where the crude oil goes. C/U pipes. Various good exterior shots of the refinery. M/S steam rising out of pipe. L/S flare stack which burns off excess gases
    473 Views
  • START OF VETERAN CAR RUN (1980)

    🎬British Movietone - NO SOUND - MS No. 122 Panhard-Levassor 1902 of Mr. R. Gates passes camera MS No. 55 Napier 1900 passes MS Cars collecting MS No. 53 Locomobile Steamer 1900 MS No. 140 Albion 1903 reversing MS No. 157 De Dion Bouton 1903 pushed in reverse MS No. 175 Humberette 1903 with bonnet open (x 2) MS Adjust- ments made to No. 31 Marot-Gardon 1899 (x 2) GV Cars to start MS Pan Town Crier walking with car MS Pan No. 39 Daimler 1900 driven by LORD MONTAGU LAS pan down to wheels of No. 123 Panhard- Levassor 1902 of Mr. E. Boorman MS No. 149 Daimler 1903 with Minister of Transport MR. NORMAN FOWLER in front passenger seat pan MS Pan up No. 110 James and Browne 1902 MS No. 6 Lutzmann 1896 MS Cars start GV Cars crossing Westminster Bridge MS Pan with No. 90 Renault 1901 over Bridge
    560 Views
  • RIDING ON AIR (1964)

    🎬British Movietone - At Hythe by Southampton Water a full scale experiment is underway - Development Engineer Anthony Plunkett takes control of a rather ungainly contraption. Although it weighs three tons, air pressure raises it half an inch off the ground, allowing it to be pushed along with one finger. Enclose it in a aerodynamic shell and you have a hovertrain which could travel at a comfortable 200 mph.

    British Movietone News ran in the United Kingdom from 1929 to 1986.
    458 Views

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