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  1. Blacksmiths of Chatham Dockyard (1983 Video)

    Director
    Tony Othen; Angus Petrie
    Producer
    Philip Sugg
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    An archival record of the blacksmith’s shop at Chatham dockyard showing a number of craft skills: forging, chain making and testing, spring making, locksmithing, stanchion making and galvanising. The...

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  2. Cruachan Hollow Mountain, The (2009)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 81 minutes), £19.56

    The story of the construction of the Cruachan pumped storage Hydro-Electric Scheme, one of the most ambitious schemes of its time. All stages of the construction are detailed in this meticulously produced...

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  3. Fred Dibnah’s World of Steel, Steam and Stone - Part 1 (2006)

    Subject
    Engineering; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes), £19.99

    A series of 6 30-minute programmes in which the late Lancastrian steeplejack Fred Dibnah traces the development of industrialisation in Britain.

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  4. Hand Rolling of Steel (1982)

    Director
    W.K.V. Gale
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 47 minutes), £12.00

    A record of the last Black Country hand steel rolling mill (John Bradley & Co.) made in 1982, only 3 days before it closed. The production follows the process from raw material to the final rolled section,...

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  5. Seven Centuries of the English Windmill (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    The history of windmills in England from the wooden post mill and the timber smock mill to the stone tower mill, showing windmills in the Midlands, East Anglia and southern England. With wind power gathering...

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  6. Past at Work, The. Part 4: Spindle and Shuttle (1982 Video)

    Producer
    Susanna Capon; Suzanne Davies; Michael Garrod
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Uses working museums and surviving buildings to demonstrate the impact on the landscape and the lives of working people, of inventions in the textile industry during the 18th and 19th centuries. Shows the...

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  7. Hampshire’s Steam Pumping Stations (2 Parts) (1975 Video)

    Producer
    Judith S Leathart
    Subject
    Archaeology; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 4, 10 min., 1996 sale: £35.00 (inclulsive) each part

    1 (1972): Shows a water pumping station in 1926 that survived virtually unchanged until 1971. Shows a general view of the pumping station, and then moves step-by-step from the hand stoking of the steam...

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  8. Life on the Edge III: Nottingham Lace (2010)

    Subject
    Crafts; Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 26 minutes), £35.00

    With unemployment rising across Europe, why isn’t there more demand to learn the specialist craft skills that once brought wealth and fame to the industrial heartlands of the UK? Across the developing...

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  9. Tour of Carrs Mine, A: Exploring the Nenthead Visitor Mine (2004)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 31 minutes), £14.95

    Carrs mine is part of the Nenthead lead-zinc mining complex high on Alston Moor in the Cumbrian North Pennines. Carrs was first recorded in 1679 and by 1750 it was one of the largest mines in the area. From...

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  10. Farm Machinery Film Records: Harvest (2007)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), 9.99

    This programme use extracts from a collection of films made by the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering over a period of about ten years from 1945. Some of the films record machinery working in the...

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