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Title: KIRKINTILLOCH OVERSPILL

Reference number: 5502

Date: 1959

Production company: [ Templar Films]

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 1.23 mins

Description: The provost of Kirkintilloch unveils a plaque to commemorate the first industrial business to transfer premises from Glasgow to Kirkintilloch, under the "overspill" plan for Scotland.

Shotlist: Ext. gvs housing in Kirkintilloch. Provost of Kirkintilloch shakes hands with a couple, and walks with them into their garden; (0.16) exts. new housing, terraces and semi-detached; (0.48) brief ext and int. factory (Low and Sons Ltd), c/u masked man soldering (0.52) Provost unveils plaque; c/u plaque, reading: "this plaque was unveiled by N.B. Fairservice Esq. J.P. Provost of the burgh of Kirkintilloch on 15th September 1959 to commemorate the opening of these new premises of Archibald Low and Sons Ltd. This being the first industrial establishment to transfer from Glasgow to Kirkintilloch under the "overspill" plan for Scotland" (1.23)