Border Towns Unite (1929)

Item title reads - Border towns unite. Duke of Buccleuch, head of the great Border Clan, with impressive ceremony, joins Dumfries and Maxwelltown in one great Burgh. Scotland. M/S as a band marches along followed by Elders and officials. M/S as the Duke of Buccleuch shakes hands with two officials then walks along and opens the gates dividing the two towns. He makes a speech. M/S as they walk along after the ceremony. L/S as the camera pans across them all on a platform, M/S of two flags in the middle, they look to be the same, this is probably the flag of the new Burgh. FILM ID: 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 (