A visual documentation of the construction work during the building of Potter Hill Water Tower. Produced by the Sheffield Waterworks Film Unit for Sheffield Corporation Waterworks. Title card - ‘Sheffield Corporation Waterworks’ overlaying image of Potter Hill Water Tower. A waterfall/dam is shown. A countryside landscape is shown. Potter Hill Water Tower is shown. A map appears, which points out the location of the water tower. A logo appears which reads ‘Waterworks Potterhill’....

A visual documentation of the construction work during the building of Potter Hill Water Tower. Produced by the Sheffield Waterworks Film Unit for Sheffield Corporation Waterworks. Title card - ‘Sheffield Corporation Waterworks’ overlaying image of Potter Hill Water Tower. A waterfall/dam is shown. A countryside landscape is shown. Potter Hill Water Tower is shown. A map appears, which points out the location of the water tower. A logo appears which reads ‘Waterworks Potterhill’. Intertitle - ‘A record of its construction by direct labour in 1957 for the supply of new property in the neighbourhood. It supersedes a smaller elevated tank seen at the end of the film.’ The construction site of the bottom part of the water tower is shown - brick formations are shown built up whilst other debris is scattered on the floor. Workers are shown on the construction site next to a crane. The progress on the lower part of the building is shown. A truck labelled ‘Andrew’s Quarries’ dumps a load into a pile and a worker starts shovelling it. Large concrete structures are shown ready to be put into the building work. A worker hooks chains onto a large concrete structure and signals for a crane to lift it up. The concrete is lifted up by the crane and the workers on the ground guide it to where it needs to be. A worker uses a spirit level to make sure the concrete is settled in place correctly and levelled straight. Many of the concrete structures laid in formation are shown. A worker shovels cement on the ground and then packs it into place in the structure using a trowel. Hooks are lowered down from the crane and workers hook them onto another concrete structure. It is then lifted up, and workers guide it into place. A worker is shown at the top of a ladder scraping cement into place with a trowel, on the joints of the concrete structures. More concrete structures are shown being lowered and fixed into place by the workers using their tools, spirit levels and wedges. Progress on the tower is shown as the structure is now much taller. Scaffolding surrounds the structure. Workers continue lowering concrete into place and cementing it down. Workers are shown moving a tall structure of scaffolding. Workers are shown continuing to lower concrete onto the wet cement, and removing the hooks from the concrete on the crane. Tools such as hammers, wedges and spirit levels are continuously used to make sure everything is positioned correctly. A landscape shot of the construction reveals the progress on the water tower building. The crane continues to move more concrete to the top of the construction using hooks and guidance from the workers on the ground and at the top of the tower. Workers are shown strapping the hooks to girders which are now lifted by the crane to the top of the building. A rotating winch is shown. The overall progression of the building is shown, still surrounded by scaffolding. A type of clamp is shown in a worker's hands. A worker is shown tightening things with a spanner. Workers continue developing the structure at the top of the building; pipework is now shown. A view from the top of the tower is shown. Machinery working on the ground is shown. Workers are shown shovelling cement mix onto brickwork. and into buckets next to machinery. Other workers collect cement mix into wheelbarrows. A wheelbarrow is shown being sent up to the top of the tower construction on a lift, with a note that says ‘no persons are allowed to ride on the platform’. A worker collects the wheelbarrow from the lift and takes it to the necessary area, where the load is dumped out and other workers start shovelling it. The process of collecting the cement mix in wheelbarrows and sending it on a lift is repeated. Workers are shown moving the cement mix from the wheelbarrow and patting it down into position on the top of the structure with cement scrapers/trowels. Landscape shots of the general progress of the structure are shown, including pipework. Workers are shown hammering planks into place. Workers are shown shovelling the cement into wheelbarrows and sending the wheelbarrows onto the lift. At the top of the tower the cement mix is tipped out, and smoothed out into the necessary areas. Landscape shots of the local area are shown. A worker is shown smoothing out cement onto a brickwork structure. Cement is shown being mixed in a drum. Workers are shown wandering around the construction site. Workers are shown standing at the top of ladders at the windows on the side of a house. Workers are shown taking a large delivery in a box into a house. The completed water tower is shown. Credits - ‘Produced by the Sheffield Waterworks Film Unit, 1957’.