Havant By-Pass construction, Langstone and Pook Lane

From the collection of

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

Havant By-Pass construction, Langstone and Pook Lane


We open with rose pruning scenes before seeing large mounds of freshly dug earth in open woodland. A woman walks down a leafy lane as yachts sail on Langstone Harbour. A digger waits on what will become a new road as traffic passes along the original coast road close to the harbour then more earthworks and new roads are seen. We take a drive on a newly opened section of the Havant by-pass before the action moves to a London office, where we get views from a window and see people at work.


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