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OLD LEEDS

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WORK ID: YFA 1242 (Master Record)

TitleYearDate
OLD LEEDS1945 1945-01-01
Details Original Format: 16mm
Colour: Black & White
Sound: Mute
Duration: 5 mins 40 secs
Credits: Photography, editing and script - W. Pearson. Commentator: J. D. Bottomley. Acknowlegements to the National Coal Board and Leeds City Museum

Subject: Transport
Railways
Industry



Summary
This film includes footage of the Middleton Colliery Railway taken by W. Pearson.
Description
This film includes footage of the Middleton Colliery Railway taken by W. Pearson. Title - pearson pictures presents OLD LEEDS Photography Editing and Script W. Pearson. Commentator J D Bottomley The oldest railway in the World 1812 There is a book open to a page on which is displayed a picture of Matthew Murray - Pioneer Engineer. This is followed by miniature models of railway pieces moving. Two men make their way towards an entrance of a railway tunnel which has been overgrown with...
This film includes footage of the Middleton Colliery Railway taken by W. Pearson. Title - pearson pictures presents OLD LEEDS Photography Editing and Script W. Pearson. Commentator J D Bottomley The oldest railway in the World 1812 There is a book open to a page on which is displayed a picture of Matthew Murray - Pioneer Engineer. This is followed by miniature models of railway pieces moving. Two men make their way towards an entrance of a railway tunnel which has been overgrown with shrubbery. This is followed by a scene of a woman walking around a church yard and near a high tower somewhat in ruin. At the railway yard, there is footage of the factory. This includes smoke stacks and a few pulley systems. In the train yard, there is a man standing in the control compartment of a steam engine. The train then leave the yard. Two men walk towards the factory, and from outside one of the windows, a coal chute sends coal into a kart. Inside the factory, there is a machine which sifts the coal into different sizes. In a wood yard, there are stacks of logs. Two workmen use a table saw to cut the logs into planks. There is also a man who fixes a kart. There are more shots of the interior of the factory as well as a shot taken of the yard from high above. The film closes with a train engine backing into the year. Title - The End Acknowledgements to Nat. Coal Board and Leeds City Museum.
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