A bridge is constructed - South Benfleet, Essex.

Opens with scene of various vehicles fording a flooded area or shallow river; while on left a bridge is being constructed. MS as horse-drawn cart and small bus cross; meanwhile in foreground a man is spreading the earth around; so as not to have deep ruts where they drive out of water? Cut to an old truck that died while still standing in water - the driver is at the front cranking away for quite a while.

Several trucks drive across - 1 with a large pipe held by men riding at the back. Small truck now started; drives out. Pedestrians carefully walk across stepping on narrow strip sticking up. Pan left over frame of new bridge under construction. MS Rolls Royce crossing. Man crossing carrying bicycle; another wheels his across.

Ceremony for dedication of new bridge: crowd on bridge - Girl Guides lined up; priests stand at right. Priests shake hands with VIP who has arrived. VIP meets other men. CU worker with machinery - VIP flips switch. Clergyman says prayer; then they; followed by VIP with wife etc. walk down ramp. 2 little girls give bouquets to ladies. MS crowd around a tower / scaffolding / pan up - various shots as block on top keeps dropping onto pole (like pistons) hammering it down. CU pole sinking deeper in ground. MS vehicles fording river.

Title - 'When Imperious Spain - at her mightiest - in 1588, sought to impose her will, it was Drake and the Wooden Walls of England that kept her proud boast - "This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the (timecode obscures rest)'.

Title - 'Nelson - greatest of all Sailors - at Trafalgar handed down to us for all time our glorious heritage - The Rule of the Sea. In our day - we remember, with pride that the British Navy kept her command of the Sea, the essential to victory - in the Great World War'. MS drawing of battleship.

Cataloguer's note: the titles at the end do not seem to be related to the item.
FILM ID:2342.03

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