Construction at Portsmouth Polytechnic

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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.

Construction at Portsmouth Polytechnic

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Portsmouth
1968-01-01
Silent
2m

This short film starts at a building site on which the new Portsmouth Polytechnic is about to be built. The demolished remains of previous buildings can be seen as diggers begin to excavate new foundations. Steel cages wait for their concrete infill as a batch of girders arrives on the site. After more views of the open building site we see two construction workers attacking older concrete structures with pneumatic drills.

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