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Fleet Valley Project, The (1989 Video)

Director

Tony Graco

Producer

Liam Paterson

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 11 min.

Excavations in the Fleet Valley by the Museum of London’s Department of Urban Archaeology are throwing new light on the earliest periods of London’s occupation and helping to rediscover the history of...

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London’s Docklands. Tape 1 (1990)

Distribution

Reference only, Videocassette. Betacam.

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Dunbar Wharf (1989 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 104 min.

Shows Dunbar wharf (a Butler’s Wharf warehouse), the last surviving wharf operating in London’s docklands to handle sacked goods, in this case juniper berries imported for the manufacture of gin. It has...

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Fire of London, The (1945 Film)

Subject

History

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Made as a tribute to the Londoners and, indirectly, to the inhabitants of all bombed cities, this is an account of the great fire of 29 December 1940. Contains extraordinary footage of London in flames and...

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London’s Docklands (1990 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

Shots of London’s Docklands comprising NCC building, East India Dock, Canary Wharf, West India Dock Road, Narrow Street, Dunbar Wharf. Filmed August 1990.

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Routemaster: The Story of an Icon

Subject

History; Travel & tourism

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 92 minutes), £14.99

This DVD brings together for the first time a range of official films produced over the 60-year life of the Routemaster, including the film made by Transport for London marking the final withdrawal of the...

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Pearl Assurance Plant Room (1991 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min.

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Technology and the Victorian City (1985 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p)

Dr Denis Smith, Chairman of the Greater London Archaeology Department, describes how new technology was used to tackle some of London’s main social problems such as providing clean drinking water, hygenic...

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Durga: The Goddess Comes to London (2008)

Director

David Wallace; Wayne Derrick; Jeremy Jeffs

Producer

Aaron Young

Subject

Religious studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 45 minutes), £12.99

Documentary which tells how Indian craftsmen, directed by sculptor Nemai Chandra Pal came to London, to construct a giant tableau of the goddess, Durga, and her family in the Great Court of the British...

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Daniel Libeskind (2014)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £17.99

Daniel Libeskind is one of the most important architects of the 21st century, and one of the most controversial. At once sensual and intellectual, his architecture plays with the geometry of perception. In...

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