Billiards Hall Collapses (1920)

Wolverhampton, West Midlands. Intertitle: “BILLIARDS HALL COLLAPSES. Fortunately only two were killed and 20 injured“. L/S of work men moving heaps of rubble in wheel barrows and shovelling heaps of debris into carts, clouds of dust obscure most of the picture. M/S of a man walking around the ruined remains of the Hall. He walks between billiard tables covered in rubble. 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 (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.