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  1. John Perry’s Wallpaper Company (1990 Video)

    Director
    Nick Lane
    Subject
    Crafts; History
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 138 min.

    John Perry’s company is a small factory in north London making hand-printed wallpaper using the 18th-century block-printing technique. Interviews and scenes showing the manufacturing process. Filmed...

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  2. 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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  3. Memories of Hoover (1990 Video)

    aka: Hoover Employees - Wales

    Director
    Carolyn Jacobs
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 371 min.

    The Hoover factory, which moved to the Merthry Valley in south Wales in 1948, faces closure. Interviews with some of the early workers recall memories of those early days. Scenes show the manufacture of...

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  4. New Age Travellers (1990 Video)

    Director
    Gareth Morris
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, 3 videocassettes. VHS. col. 429 min.

    Interviews with people who are current or ex-travellers. Sequences illustrate different lifestyles, with the travellers’ distinctive attitudes, situations and cultures. Shots show travellers living in...

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  5. Butterworths: Working in Publishing (1989 Video)

    Director
    Nick Wray
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 493 min.

    Interviews with personnel employed in different operations at Butterworths publishers, discussing the changes in publishing processes. Scenes of present-day compter-based typesetting and printing. Filmed...

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  6. 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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  7. Duncan Douglas, Savile Row Tailor (1989 Video)

    Director
    J Melland
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 207 min.

    Interview with Duncan Douglas, a Savile Row tailor who came from Grenada and worked his apprenticeship for a number of tailors before setting up on his own. Shows the processes involved in making a suit.

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  8. Locksmiths of the Black Country (1989 Video)

    Director
    Jonathan Smith
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Preview, 5 videocassettes. VHS. col. 957 min.

    One of the first businesses to manufacture locks by hand in the West Midlands. Interviews and shots of the process.

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  9. Portland Iron Foundry, Brighton (1989 Video)

    Director
    John Warr
    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 185 min.

    Blaber’s Portland Foundry, a working foundry in Brighton, under threat of development, shown at work. Interviews with the foreman and demonstrations of casting and fettling. Filmed March 1989.

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  10. 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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