Birmingham’s Lord Mayor Inaugurates A New Housing Scheme (1938)

Soundtrack is currently missing for this item. Birmingham, West Midlands. Various shots show the Mayor of Birmingham inaugurating a new housing scheme at a building site. He climbs up a ladder onto some scaffolding and places a special hallmark brick above the porch of a new house being built. The ventilation brick has the letters ’BDHBA’ on it for ’Birmingham District (?) House Builder’s Association’, and will be included in every new house built to a certain standard. The Mayor is handed a small box by the President of the House Builder’s Association and they shake hands. 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 Bullet