£40,000 Damage (1921)

Item title reads -£40,000 Damage caused by disastrous fire which destroyed North Pier Pavilion. Blackpool, Lancashire. L/S of people walking along the prom as the camera pans over the pier. M/S of people looking at it as firemen spray the wreckage. M/S as the camera pans across the burnt supports, and we see bits of the structure in the sea. L/S of people underneath gathering pieces of the wood. FILM ID:242.4 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 web