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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...
Shots of London’s Docklands comprising NCC building, East India Dock, Canary Wharf, West India Dock Road, Narrow Street, Dunbar Wharf. Filmed August 1990.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
One of the first businesses to manufacture locks by hand in the West Midlands. Interviews and shots of the process.
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.
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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