Christmas Parcel Rush (1937)

Full title reads: “Christmas Parcels Rush“. Paddington Station, London. Royal Mail sorting office at railway station. Railway porters collect parcels from bottom of chute and load them on and off trolleys. Parcels are piled under large signs reading ’North’ or ’South Wales’. A man in a kiosk reads out weights of parcels as they are placed on a set of scales. Various speeded up shots of porters at work. M/S of porter talking to driver and fireman in cabin of steam engine. M/S of steam engine pulling out of platform. FILM ID:945.2 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957