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King Cotton’s Palace (1984 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows how Manchester Town Hall was designed to afford practical accommodation for a municipal bureaucracy and at the same time to express the growing power and wealth of the city of Manchester in the 19th...

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Time Team: The New Town of a Norman Prince (1994 Video)

aka: New Town of a Norman Prince, The

Director

Graham Dixon

Producer

Tim Taylor

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A oak beam and some stone arches link a house in Much Wenlock in Shropshire to the development of the new town 800 years earlier. The discovery of evidence of a 13th-century aisled hall, identification of...

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Town Bloody Hall (1979 Film)

Director

Chris Hegedus; D A Pennebaker

Producer

D A Pennebaker

Subject

Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A record of a debate on the issues of women’s liberation held under the aegis of the Theater for Ideas, in New York’s Town Hall on 30 April 1971. Novelist Norman Mailer chairs a panel consisting of...

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Aston’s Villas (1977 Film)

Director

Nigel E Haverly; Jennifer Tann

Subject

Architecture; History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the development of the township of Aston, built within the old park walls of Aston Hall. When the direct line of the Holte family died out Aston Hall was leased to James Watt Jnr and it was only after...

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Ts Eliot Reading the Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems (1993)

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette), £10.99

TS Eliot reads some of his most celebrated poems, including ‘The Wasteland’. In this poem, Eliot expresses his view that the Western city had become a stale and sterile desert. In ‘The Four...

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Wigan Technical and Mining College (1988 Video)

Director

Chris Maule

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 133 min.

A visual record of the Wigan Technical and Mining College, a Grade 2 listed building with many unique features of social and architectural interest. The building is due to become the new town hall and...

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Industrial Babylon: The Victorian and Edwardian Architecture of Manchester and Liverpool (1989 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, 15 slides., 2000 sale: £16.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Shows Liverpool and Manchester at their most ambitious and exciting phase of architectural development, during the Victorian and Edwardian periods, with views of buildings from original site photographs....

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Blonde in Love, A (1965)

Director

Milos Forman

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 83 minutes), £16.78

Life in Communist Czechoslovakia in the 1960s wasn’t much fun; and life in Zruc, a provincial town, was particularly bleak. There were 20,000 factory girls and not enough boys to go round. The factory’s...

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Woman to Woman (3 Parts) (1983 Video)

Producer

Marilyn Wheatcroft

Subject

History; Women’s studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 30 min.

Conversations about politics and personal change. Women review their experiences and the profound effect of becoming involved in both local and national campaigns. Part 1: Helen John joined the peace march...

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Know Your Customer (1983 Video)

Producer

Gavin Nettleton

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

A bank manager moves to the Town Hall branch and finds that he has to restrict his golfing activities while he gets to know his corporate customers. His golfing partner, a civil engineer, turns up his...

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