Window Cleaning

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

414

Date Released

3 Dec 1962

Date recorded

2 Nov 1962

Length of issue (in feet)

760

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Window Cleaning
2. 2Daylight Dome
3. 3The Madison in Sardinia

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - Shows professional window clearners working inside and outside buildings in London, at the Belvedere Electricity Power Station in Essex, and in Norwich, using an ex-fire engine fitted with a window cleaning cradle.

Researcher Comments

Commentary: These days window-cleaning isn’t women’s work. Pathe Pictorial takes you up Britain’s tall buildings with the modern spiderman window-cleaners who train for three years before they graduate from the rank of "tumbler" on a ten-foot ladder to the rank of "shiner", when you ride in a cradle or a bosun’s chair at skyscraper height. We even visit a Norwich window-cleaner who operates with a fire-engine that has a power-operated ladder taking him up to a height of well over a hundred feet.

Keywords

Industry and manufacture; Newsreels

Locations

London; Norwich; England; Essex; Norfolk

Written sources

British Pathe online database
Pathe Pictorial Issue Sheets   Used for commentary

Credits:

Commentator

Tim Brinton

Length of story (in feet)

252

Story extras:

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