Plymouth, Devon: Plymouth Reconstruction 1947

 This newsreel from 1947 includes footage of bomb sites, rows of tiny pre-fabricated houses packed closely together, pre-fabricated shops, students from Czechoslovakia working on the building sites without any safety gear whatsoever (even their shoes look flimsy), and new streets under construction.

The Mayor puts in the foundation stone to a new radio factory, which will provide employment to several hundred local men and women.

Bombed Plymouth, England rebuilds homes and industries following WWII (1947) - British Pathé on YouTube