Labourers Prepare Building For Prisoners AKA Navvies Batt (1914-1918)

Alexandra Palace, London. World War One. ’Navvies’ battalion prepare Alexandra Palace for the reception of German prisoners. Labourers carrying logs; boards and sawhorses; as officer gives orders. Men loosen the ground with shovels and picks; large palace building up hill in background. A lot of men at work: some standing on some sort of platform and knocking in posts with sledgehammers; while others stand below holding the poles in place; again; the palace in BG. Construction; building; strength. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as we