BUSINESSP: Constructon of the Nidd Valley Dam (1926)

GAUMONT GRAPHIC NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Construction workers on the Nidd Valley Dam site. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: A Big Job: Building Bradford’s great dam in the Nidd Valley. It is a part of the water supply scheme and will employ 1000 men for 15 years. ENGLAND: Yorkshire: EXT Workers on dam construction site laying sections of huge pipe Trucks of rubble along on railway track Men pack explosives into rock, then sound warning on horn as dynamite explosion blows up rock face Men with pick-axes chip at rock as excavating machine gathers rubble Background: Construction workers on the Nidd Valley Dam site. FILM ID: VLVA187IS0Y9VUQABWCV4J9Q1N3Q To license this film, visit Archive: Reuters Archive managed by: British Pathé