• BROFA/0056
  • HTV 90T 3329 (reel BR) 3213
  • 4 Feb 1963
  • Item
  • 4 minutes 4 seconds
  • The visit of Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport, for the inauguration of the Cumberland Basin Scheme, 4 February 1963. Shows the Minister arriving at the Council House and at a temporary stage placed on the construction site. He’s accompanied by Gervas Walker and other civic dignitaries at a very snowy Hotwells. He is introduced and makes a speech. The Group and a crowd of onlookers including the press view a bulldozer demolishing a house in preparation for the construction works. Marples is shown signing an autograph for a youngster and a woman before he leaves.
  • Open
  • High band U-matic
  • Maker unknown
  • 16mm
  • Video cassette
  • Mute
  • Colour
  • Digital file format - MPG
  • Digital File Format - MPG
  • Removable hard drive
  • Previously suggested to have come from HTV 90T 3213 but paperwork does not support this. Available to view in our public searchroom.