Full title reads: “London. Sweep away all slums! Princess Alice lays foundation stone of another block of flats for working classes - where once was one of London’s worst slums.“
London.
Princess Alice, the Countess of Athlone, lays a foundation stone / memorial stone. She makes a speech about the importance of housing to the moral and physical health of the Community.
Cut away to local tenement blocks. People are listening from the windows. CU of Princess Alice. Shots of people listening as a brass band plays ’There’s No Place Like Home’.
N.B. These flats are opened by the Princess in 33/60.
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