Youtube, courtesy of the British Film Institute ("BFI"), has THIS FILM, some ten minutes long, of Mosley and the BUF (on 3rd October 1937) seeking to undertake a planned march from Westminster to Bermondsey: Mosley himself, flags and standard bearers, British fascists, female British fascists, a Scottish pipe and drum band, British communists/left wingers giving the clenched fist salute, mounted policemen, lorried policemen, lots of policemen....and a final segment on the "BUF Black House" in the Kings Road, Chelsea (complete with passing Norland nanny in uniform and pram). If nothing else, filmed evidence that being "on sentry duty" at the front entrance of the Black House must have been an extremely wearisome job.....
Some background on the 3rd October 1937 march can be found HERE, an extract from "Rebel Footprints" by David Rosenberg.
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