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Laying of the foundation stone of the new North Pier.

The top-hatted dignatories include The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Michael Hicks Beach).

The flat capped men are doing the donkey work.

Note in the backgrpund the lighthouse on Red Acre Cliff.

The film by the British Film Institute was shot by showman and cinema pioneer George 

Henderson.