40,000 Tons Of Coke (1920)

North Woolwich, London. Intertitle: “40,000 TONS OF COKE on fire ... and likely to burn for a month!“ Panning shot from three workmen standing on a railway line to a massive pile of coke with clouds of smoke coming off it. M/S of a crane, behind it is the burning pile of coke ( less exciting than it sounds - it's coke as in coal!). 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.