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Subject category: Working life Click
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clip Gerald Harrison
reporting on the Liverpool Daily Post’s move
to new premises (1973) Richard Dukenfield
interviewing 72-year-old Mona Regan, a cobbler from
St. Helens (1974) Sue Potten
reporting on the catching and smoking of salmon in
Lancaster (1975) Frank Mellor
reporting on a new glass factory opened in
Ulverston (1975) Frank Mellor
reporting on the inshore fishermen of Fleetwood
(1978) Felicity Goodey
visiting Thomas Reynolds and Sons in Salford, the
country’s biggest specialist brass instrument
repairers (1978) Felicity Goodey
reporting on the dockers' strike on Merseyside
(1980) Roger Halhead,
computer operator, talking about a computer
terminal which helps his visual impairment
(1981) Richard Duckinfield
reporting on a mass meeting at Mersey Docks in
which the latest pay offer has been rejected
(1981) Julie Carter
reporting on how one of Britains smallest
breweries, based in Failsworth, has become so
successful that it’s opening a pub
(1983) Frank Mellor
highlights three traditional ways of life in the
North West: slate mining in the Lake District,
herring fishing on the Isle of Man and
blacksmithing in Lancashire (1974) Lecturer Bill
Rollinson discusses his home town of Barrow with
presenter Frank Mellor, in particular the town's
major employer 'Vickers' (1975) Young fashion buyer
Libby Pluck is shown going to work in Liverpool
(1975) An auction by real
estate firm Swetenhams of Chester is shown in which
items are sold to bidders (1975) Liverpudlian
photographer John Stoddart explains his work and we
see him photographing fashion models in a studio
(1984) Janice Long visits
Affleck's Palace in Manchester and interviews some
of the stall-owners and designers there
(1984) Frank Mellor
describes the work of rope maker Nat Bell from
Kendal (date unknown) Reporter Michael
Delahaye reports on the motor industry in the North
West from Ford's Halewood factory (1975) Shows daily
operations at both BBC Television and BBC Radio in
Manchester and Liverpool (1976) Reporter Frank
Mellor visits the South West Cumbrian coastal town
of Millom (1980) |
