This amateur film looks at a wood products manufacturer in the docks area of Hartlepool. The firm specialises in pit props. The film concentrates on the wood yard and its environment, and provides panoramic views of Hartlepool Docks, Headland and coastline. The film opens with two men sawing a piece of wood using a circular saw bench. It then cuts to a street scene with overhead gantries spanning the road carrying power lines for trolley buses. A single decker trolley bus travels towards...

This amateur film looks at a wood products manufacturer in the docks area of Hartlepool. The firm specialises in pit props. The film concentrates on the wood yard and its environment, and provides panoramic views of Hartlepool Docks, Headland and coastline. The film opens with two men sawing a piece of wood using a circular saw bench. It then cuts to a street scene with overhead gantries spanning the road carrying power lines for trolley buses. A single decker trolley bus travels towards camera. Two men walk towards the camera, stacks of piled wood nearby. One of the men is wearing a smart black coat and a bowler hat, the other is a workman carrying a log. The smartly dressed man points to one of the stacks of wood. The two men walk off. The next shot shows a man working amongst the piles of pit props. He is sawing through one of the logs using a bow saw. A left to right pan shows other piles of props. Another pile of wood seems to have collapsed or blown over. Two men in dark coats inspect the damage. A brief shot shows men standing next to neat piles of pit props. Two men load a railway wagon with pit props. Another two men work with a pile of props, one of them cutting logs to length. They throw the cut lengths through a side opening into one of the wagons. Panoramic shot of a misty coastline: a concrete pier in the middle foreground, in the distance an outline of a church which could be St Hilda's Church on the Headland, small boats anchored in the inlet to the docks area, a small ship, the 'Katvaldis', with cranes on the quayside, a number of cargo boats, and, in the background, a wooden coal staithe with coal wagons parked on top. A small steam engine pulls a train of wagons. A road runs alongside a higher railway embankment. The camera begins panning right to left, there are large industrial sheds in the landscape, including one named 'F W Ainsley & Co. Ltd, Timber Importers'. The camera continues to pan right to left over a very misty landscape. An assembly of industrial sheds comes into view The camera completes a 180 degree pan as revealed by the the road and railway embankment now seen in the opposite direction. The film ends with a close up shot back in the woodyard where three men measure a piece of wood.