3-020-522 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Unemployed People Gathering on the Streets , 1929. 'The recession - sorry - depression, was touching bottom...the bread line, and plain doing nothing. But it wasn't only the jobless who suffered. In 1929, overnight the bottom fell out of Wall Street and millions held their breath as their savings melted away...It meant that in Wall Street there was no such thing as a "dead cert" any longer. It was a time of despair, and suicide, and panic'. From "Time to Remember - 1929 The Time Of The House At Bognor" - Reel 3; a documentary about the world in 1929. Illness of King George V & economic depression.