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
- British Pathe online database
Pathe Pictorial Issue Sheets Used for commentary
- Credits:
-
- Commentator
- Brian Cobby
- Length of story (in feet)
- 511
- Story extras:
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How to cite this record
'The Changing Face of London', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 394, 16 Jul 1962. https://test.learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121245 (Accessed 26 Jun 2025)