Full titles read; “Lord Chelmsford - opens new installation of first of four Pithead baths erected by Miners Welfare Committee at Pooley Hall Colliery.“
Polesworth, Warwickshire.
M/S shows a large group of men and women standing beside a covered platform where Lord Chelmsford is making a speech. M/S of Chelmsford talking before a microphone on a table. M/S shows a crowd of men in bowler hats walking down the steps to the new wash house; Lord Chelmsford, at the head of the group, unlocks the door and hands the key and a document to another man; the group goes inside.
Inside the baths we see the group walk along a corridor with several small cubicles leading off it.
M/S of miners alongside the wash house.
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