Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 6755 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| SHEFFIELD WATER WORKS 3 | 1955 | 1955-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 6 mins Genre: Documentary Subject: Working Life Science/Technology Environment/Nature Architecture |
| Summary General work on the activities of the water works around Sheffield, including clips of a committee meeting, the customer counters, office workers, and the building of new plant. |
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Description
General work on the activities of the water works around Sheffield, including clips of a committee meeting, the customer counters, office workers, and the building of new plant.
A group of men are shown standing over a table looking at some plans for Bradfield filter station.
A sign on a door handle reads ‘Water Committee in Session’.
A committee meeting is shown in progress - men are all sat around a table flipping through papers.
Workers are shown in a classroom.
The exterior building...
General work on the activities of the water works around Sheffield, including clips of a committee meeting, the customer counters, office workers, and the building of new plant.
A group of men are shown standing over a table looking at some plans for Bradfield filter station.
A sign on a door handle reads ‘Water Committee in Session’.
A committee meeting is shown in progress - men are all sat around a table flipping through papers.
Workers are shown in a classroom.
The exterior building of the offices is shown.
Workers at the customer counters/help desks are shown.
Workers in an office with desks of paperwork are shown.
A woman is shown using a typewriter to fill in a form.
Two men are shown talking across a desk. One of the men answers a telephone.
Workers are shown using rulers and mathematical measuring equipment to make markings on maps and diagrams.
A construction site for a new plant is shown.
A worker secures bricks in place with cement.
Progress on the building is shown.
Work on the pipes is shown.
A reservoir is shown in the landscape.
Two men are watching the work from a distance, and a photographer is seen in the background.
A digger releases a load.
Tubing is shown being directed by a worker on the end of a crane.
Pipework is shown laid in the ground.
Construction work continues.
Cement is shown pouring.
Men are shown shovelling.
A container of cement is hoisted in the air by a crane.
Men on the ground direct the container as it pours cement onto a specific part of the concrete structure.
A bucket on a crane is shown pouring debris on the site.
A map is shown of the water network around the City of Sheffield.
Title card - ‘Part 2’.
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