Housing: 'The Faith in Action': Parts 1 & 2: The rebuilding of London's Somers Town slums (1910)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
To license this film, visit www.britishpat...
'The Faith in Action': Parts 1 & 2: The rebuilding of London's Somers Town slums by the St.
Full Description:
SLATE INFORMATION: The St Pancras House Improvement Society Ltd presents The Faith in Action
1928 - 1929
ENGLAND: London: Euston:
Various shots of living room cum bedroom in house: table with food and trilby hat: exterior shots of back to back houses
SLATE
Women and children about in street of poor terraced houses: broken windows: washing hanging in yard; slum houses and tenements:
SLATE
Church procession along: churchman along street of poor houses and talking to local people:
SLATE
St pancras House Improvement Society Estate manager rent collecting
SLATE
House building underway
SLATE
Large size model of flea
SLATE
Houses being demolished
SLATE
Foundation stone for new block of flats
SLATE
Earl Jellicoe visits work and shown round by architect Ian Hamilton, Estates managers and Chairman, Father Jellicoe
SLATE
Earl Jellicoe and Father Jellicoe beside rose bush in first garden
SLATE
Bishop of London along in procession to bless the new flats
SLATE
Bishop of London blessing new block of flats
SLATE
Old terraced housing and new block of flats
SLATE
Old houses being knocked down
SLATE
Father Jellicoe lays first brick of new flats - January 1929
SLATE
Flats under construction
SLATE
First floor completed - April 1929
SLATE
Partly constructed block of flats surrounded by scaffolding and fencing
SLATE
Father Scott taking a walk on the top floor of flats - July 1929
SLATE
Builders on an outing to Chichester Theological College - September 1929
SLATE
Further building on Sidney Street Garden Estate inaugurated - January 1931. General Sir Ian Hamilton ignites ceremonial bonfire on site of second block
SLATE
Effigies of bug, rat and louse burnt in the fire: workmen demolishing old houses:
SLATE
Second block of Garden Estate nears completion - August 1931 - roof being laid:
SLATE
Young children playing on pile of sawdust: children gathered in street
SLATE
Adults and children along narrow alley: people to and fro in street:
SLATE
Children in nursery school run by St Pancras House Improvement Society
SLATE
Menu board for nursery school mid-day meal: food being prepared: children eating:
SLATE
Children after lunch: children playing in street: mother and children looking from upstairs window: faces of young children: people and children boarding van: children away in vans: children arriving at new block of flats: psalm: old housing:
SLATE
Background: 'The Faith in Action': Parts 1 & 2: The rebuilding of London's Somers Town slums by the St. Pancras House Improvement Society - A Roman Catholic body, close both to community and church and in the main organised by local Priests. Charting the story from the early failure to reconstitute the old houses, impossible due to bug-infested walls, etc. (A symbolic burning-in-effigy or a rat, a flea and a mouse), the film deals primarily with the building of new 'Garden Flats' in thier place, over the period 1928 - 32:
FILM ID: VLVAEF6YQDCO6IR0N3PHBQZ5UHESP
To license this film, visit www.britishpat...
Archive: Reuters
Archive managed by: British Pathé