Crooked Houses Dudley (1940)

Crooked houses - Dudley. The Midlands. L/S’s pans across coal and tin mines in countryside. M/S’s of town centre and streets. Various shots of crooked houses due to subsidence, doorways and doorsteps are sloping, and walls have cracked and come unstuck, chimneys lean together. Various shots of the drunken looking houses. They are going to be knocked down and replaced with new ones. 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 well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.