Description: The film opens and closes with footage of a medical building with the title, “The completed building is equipped with the latest apparatus”. This could be footage of the Health Centre in Spa Road.

It begins with views of the exterior and then the interior of a medical building: a woman and child go up the stairs and we see cubicles and operating equipment.

The film’s first recorded event of 1937 is the opening of the Silver Street playground by the mayor E.J.Gibson. He opens the gates and waiting children and mothers go in. Children play on the swings and slide whilst the mayor and other dignitaries make speeches. [There is no sound or subtitles so we don’t know what they say]. The next event is the Coronation Celebrations at Fairby Grange (the council-owned estate). This colour footage is of mothers dressed in capes and crowns pushing their prams with union flags and ‘Long Live the King’ on them. There is more colour footage in the next event, ‘The Visit of HRH the Duchess of York’. Crowds and a local dignitary wait, as a car, festooned with flowers, travels down the road. Out get two ladies-in-waiting and the door is opened for the Duchess, who is wearing the same flowers that bedeck the car. A girl gives her a posy and HRH gives it to her lady-in-waiting. Another girl gives her flowers and HRH talks to her; the girl curtsies and then shakes her head. Photographers push past. HRH poses with the mayor and he makes a speech. More flowers are given and the mayor poses with woman, possibly his wife on the steps. The final event is black and white and records the May Day March of 1938 from Bermondsey to Hyde Park. A band leads the procession, followed by men carrying banners saying, ‘Socialism or Smash’ ‘No More War’ ‘Stop war, vote Labour’. Floats follow: ‘Here Comes Good Health’ with an operating theatre on it; another float has ‘Bermondsey Direct Labour Schemes’ on it and the slogan, ‘Fascist Destruction! Labour Builds!’ A women and children’s procession follows, including a horse-drawn carriage with children and a girl dressed as a princess inside. The Bermondsey Youth Unite Against Exploitation follow the Transport and General Workers’ Union. A float carries caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini followed by a float from the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers. The film ends after more footage of the beginning of the procession.

After a ‘The End’ intertitle there is footage of a construction worker in front of a steel frame, the film goes to black and then is followed by the intertitle, ‘The completed building is equipped with the latest apparatus’