Heat wave in the 1930s, Londoners Escape the City and Head to the Beach

608 views · Published 5 July 2013 · 2:39 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: Kinolibrary · 2013 · Entertainment

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From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref BP25

01:00:23 HA shots London. Waterloo Bridge. Street scenes. Smartly dressed man in suit lifts off his hat and wipes head with handkerchief. Heat wave. OTS shot woman packing her suitcase. Man packing tennis racket. Man in shorts leaves house, greets man outside holding bike with child on backseat and side car, passes man with bike a coin. 
01:01:20 EXT train station, men and women pick up suitcases and walk into Booking Hall entrance. INT train station, Train waiting on platform. Man rides off on bicycle, tandem with wife, children on back seat. Train pulling away. 
01:02:18 Busy roads. Men and women disembark buses and trains. Little children in swimwear run down street, holiday. Beach. Busy pier. Ferry full of people. People sit on seafront, sign 'Palace Pier' in BG. 
01:03:26 ENDS

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