FIRST ATOM POWER STATION: WORK PUSHES AHEAD Designed to generate electricity for National Grid new project will be working in eighteen months.

Record ID: 231097

  • Title: FIRST ATOM POWER STATION: WORK PUSHES AHEAD Designed to generate electricity for National Grid new project will be working in eighteen months.
  • Date: 29th December 1954
  • Summary: Cumberland, England: GV Work going on at Power Station at Calder Hall in Cumberland. TV Construction work. GV Ditto. LV Articulated lorry (Pickford's) towards with hunk of Power station equipment thru very narrow street. Another V Ditto. LV Removing equipment from lorry at site. Closer V Ditto. GV Construction work going on. Angle V Material on end of crane being lowered into position. Closer V Ditto. GV Construction work. SV Men getting girder into position on crane. CU Ditto. SV Girder being raised. LV another girder being put into position. LV Man working on drum with oxy-acetylene apparatus. SV Men working on equipment underneath large drum.-(hose-pipes) SV Men working on drum covered with knobs. Closer V Ditto. GTV Power House under construction. BIG GV Ditto. Atomic Energy; Great Britain Initials MOVIETONE. Cumberland Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th January 1955 12:00
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  • Location: CUMBERLAND, ENGLAND
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Reuters ID: LVA9MUIIPEY5MRKOVW5VO5QES94N
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  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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