Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22973 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
HARTEPOOL NUCLEAR POWER STATION: THREE | 1972 | 1972-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 5 mins 38 secs Credits: Dennis Wompra Genre: Rushes Subject: Transport Ships Industry Architecture |
Summary The third and final camera roll shot by Dennis Wompra showing the transportation of a large metal tank or tower, believed parts for the advanced gas-cooled reactor being installed into the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station. Tugboats move a barge on which the structure rest to the construction site on the northern banks of the River Tees. Once on site low-profile caterpillar tracked vehicles slowly move the structure from the barge making its way to site of the station itself. |
Description
The third and final camera roll shot by Dennis Wompra showing the transportation of a large metal tank or tower, believed parts for the advanced gas-cooled reactor being installed into the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station. Tugboats move a barge on which the structure rest to the construction site on the northern banks of the River Tees. Once on site low-profile caterpillar tracked vehicles slowly move the structure from the barge making its way to site of the station itself.
In the distance...
The third and final camera roll shot by Dennis Wompra showing the transportation of a large metal tank or tower, believed parts for the advanced gas-cooled reactor being installed into the Hartlepool Nuclear Power Station. Tugboats move a barge on which the structure rest to the construction site on the northern banks of the River Tees. Once on site low-profile caterpillar tracked vehicles slowly move the structure from the barge making its way to site of the station itself.
In the distance two tugboats manoeuvre a barge through the waters of the Tees Estuary. The barge is carrying a massive cylindrical metal tank or tower with additional metal tubing attached to the sides. Entering the River Tees it approaches a dockside, a ‘BP’ emblem is attached to the side of the metal structure as the barge is tied up by workmen. The tugs push the barge into final position against the quayside.
Back in the Tees Estuary the tugboats once again push the barge through the water. Men work onboard the barge as it approaches a docking area, in the background the partially built Hartlepool Nuclear Power station.
Workmen on both the quayside and barge work to tie up and make ready the structure to be moved off the barge. Stencilled along one site it’s weight; ‘960 Metric Tons’. A ‘BP’ banner is also tied onto the structure as well as a large banner who’s lettering is unreadable due to the distance away from the camera.
Three ‘Rigging International’ low-profile caterpillar tracked vehicles slowly drives the structure off the barge. Men in hardhats watch over the procedure as the vehicles slowly make their way onto dryland. A man wearing a set of headphones looks over and smiles at the camera, the drive of one of the vehicles looks the other way. The film ends on the structure continuing to make slow progress towards its final destination.
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