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  1. Ted’s River (1989 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min.

    The Queen’s Bargemaster Ted Hunt, talks about his life. He has been a royal bargemaster since 1977 and has spent all his working life on the River Thames. He reflects on his early days, his duties as the...

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  2. Tough’s Boatyard (1989 Video)

    Director
    No information
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 98 min.

    Tough’s Boatyard on the River Thames was one of the collection points for the little ships that went to Dunkirk. The yard itself was a well-known Thames River business, building and repairing tugs, barges...

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  3. British Artists’ Films: William Raban (2003)

    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 131 minutes), £19.99

    A selection of film and video work by William Raban, whose interest in the River Thames and the City of London in particular and British landscape in general is in the tradition of romantic landscape...

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  4. River That Came Clean, The (1977 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Considers the pollution of the River Thames, tracing the history of the problem from the 19th century and showing the improvement brought about in recent years by the construction of two sewage treatment works.

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  5. London Water Ring Main: Below the Surface (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., Free loan

    Shows the London Water Ring Main, a system of gravity-fed tunnels constructed deep under London for bringing drinking water from Thames Valley treatment works into the capital. Pumping stations located at...

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  6. Modelling Pollution (1978 Video)

    Producer
    David Saunders; Martin Wright
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1994 sale: £60.00 (+VAT +p&p) combined with three other programmes from the course on a single cassette.

    In 1950 much of the River Thames was dead, being totally devoid of oxygen, the oxygen being used up in the process of decay in the sewage. But the river authorities used a mathematical model to predict the...

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  7. Slipping ‘Peter P.' (1989 Video)

    Director
    Nick Lane
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min.

    Views of one of the last dry-dock operations on the north bank of the River Thames. Shows the taking in and then the slipping of the ‘Peter P.'. Filmed in December 1989.

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  8. David Blaine - Above the Below (2003)

    Subject
    Art; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £19.99

    Magician and performance artist David Blaine undertakes his most intense physical challenge yet when he attempts to endure 44 days of solitary confinement in a glass box suspended above the River Thames....

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  9. 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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  10. Look at Life: Swinging London (2006)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 132 minutes), £14.99

    Sixteen films from the colourful LOOK AT LIFE series, produced by the Rank Organisation every week for screening in Odeon cinemas between 1960 and 1969. Stories covered include the boutiques of Carnaby...

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