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Sewage Strike

Date released

8 Oct 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2157A

NoS ID

028522

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Sewage Strike. DESCRIPTION: Britain’s council workers - striking over a pay claim - present the authorities with a nasty problem. Troops are standing by to man sewage pumping stations...

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Drainage (2004)

Subject

Civil Engineering & Building

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 28 minutes), £65.00

Briefly summarises the evolution and current practice of drainage in the UK. The first part of the film highlights, using a variety of contemporary images, texts and photographs, the problems of disease and...

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Running of Beckton sewage works during strike (1983)

Genre

Interview; Special

A worker at Beckton Sewage Works describes the running of the works as they walk round it, and how the water workers strike might affect processes. Male speaker and reporter not identified.

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Ocean Sound This Week No.9: Programme 9 of a weekly news and sports review (1986)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 9 Programme 9 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 12 December 1986. Presented by MATT HOPPER....

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Prince Charles on sewage recycling (1990)

Genre

Speech

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales speaks at a meeting of water and sewage company representatives, urging a leap in imagination to plough sewage and sludge back into the land in place of harmful chemicals,...

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David Trippier on beach pollution report (1990)

Genre

Interview

Environment Minister David Trippier responding to the publication of an Environment Select Committee report into beach pollution and the risk to bathers of catching minor ailments from untreated sewage in...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Council workers killed at sewage works (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with an unidentified police officer who describes the discovery of three council employees at a sewage plant in Lanarkshire, after being shot dead and then set on fire (24/07/85). Appeals for...

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Britain’s largest sewage treatment works opens (1978)

Genre

Interview

Peter Black of Thames Water Authority on the opening of Britain’s largest sewage treatment works serving East London, which cost £25 million. Male interviewer not identified.

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Our kind of town (1980)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

This week’s edition of Our Kind of Town is presented by Keith Howell and investigates the workings of London’s sewage system. Tours Beckton Sewage Treatment Works with Manager Stan Cooke(?). Then goes...

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Tour of Thames Water Authority (1976)

Genre

Documentary; Interview

Christopher Hourmouzious reports on the various treatments that water goes through before being suitable for use. Laurie Moles from the Thames Water Authority discusses how water enters the system, as well...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio