Queen switches on Calder Hall nuclear power station

Queen switches on Calder Hall nuclear power station; ENGLAND: Cumberland: Calder Hall: EXT Shots of procession of cars arriving led, by Queen's car / Crowds of people / Members of staff onlooking / Sir Edwin Plowden (Chairman, Atomic Energy Authority) presents officials and technicians to Queen Elizabeth II / Shots as Queen walks towards building for a short preliminary tour of inspection / Giant clock/meter above entrance to building / People gathered on dais / Queen Elizabeth II speech SOF (Sir Edwin Plowden and R.A. Butler (Rab Butler) MP seen on dais) - Today as power from Calder Hall begins to flow into the National Grid all of us here know we are present at the making of history ... It is with pride that I now open Calder Hall, Britain's first atomic power station / Queen pulls lever / Needle on great "clock" over the entrance of the administrative building begins to race round, indicating the dispatch of atomic electricity into the National Grid, for the first time / Queen down steps from dais - walks away for further inspection / Giant dial PAM electricity pylon / T/X 17.10.56 / 10.45pm
Queen switches on Calder Hall nuclear power station; ENGLAND: Cumberland: Calder Hall: EXT Shots of procession of cars arriving led, by Queen's car / Crowds of people / Members of staff onlooking / Sir Edwin Plowden (Chairman, Atomic Energy Authority) presents officials and technicians to Queen Elizabeth II / Shots as Queen walks towards building for a short preliminary tour of inspection / Giant clock/meter above entrance to building / People gathered on dais / Queen Elizabeth II speech SOF (Sir Edwin Plowden and R.A. Butler (Rab Butler) MP seen on dais) - Today as power from Calder Hall begins to flow into the National Grid all of us here know we are present at the making of history ... It is with pride that I now open Calder Hall, Britain's first atomic power station / Queen pulls lever / Needle on great "clock" over the entrance of the administrative building begins to race round, indicating the dispatch of atomic electricity into the National Grid, for the first time / Queen down steps from dais - walks away for further inspection / Giant dial PAM electricity pylon / T/X 17.10.56 / 10.45pm
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17 October, 1956
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00:02:30:09
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