Here's a royal walkabout at the Barbican estate from November 1972, well into the building of the flats but a decade before the arts centre was open. The event was caught with fawning absurdity by the British Movietone News commentator. As well as the Queen unveiling a plaque and going walkabout, the film is notable for an unlikely figure striding about the grounds of one of Britain's most extensive brutalist building schemes: Prince Charles caught smiling before a wall of pick-hammered concrete. It's worth watching for that alone.
