A promotional film made for Heritage Homes, the house building arm of construction company Yuill of Hartlepool presented by Peter Macann that focuses on the quality in both design and construction of their new housing range. The film features several developments including Blaise Garden Village in Hartlepool and Collingwood Court near Morpeth in Northumberland. The film also features a sheltered housing scheme built for the North Housing Association. The film also looks at the company's...

A promotional film made for Heritage Homes, the house building arm of construction company Yuill of Hartlepool presented by Peter Macann that focuses on the quality in both design and construction of their new housing range. The film features several developments including Blaise Garden Village in Hartlepool and Collingwood Court near Morpeth in Northumberland. The film also features a sheltered housing scheme built for the North Housing Association. The film also looks at the company's apprentice scheme and working being carried out by them on the restoration of a historic windmill in the village of Hart near Hartlepool. The film ends on an interview with the company's current Managing Director Phillip Yuill. A Yuill of Hartlepool replica vintage delivery van drives along a series of country roads, the livery along the side of the vehicle reads 'Heritage. Come home to your Heritage' which features a butterfly as an emblem. Following black and white archive footage of men working to build a house on a building site, the film returns to the van driving along country roads before coming to a stop. Title: Building on Quality Presenter Peter Macann steps out of the van and addresses the camera about the quality of Yuill Heritage Homes and how they have achieved this over the past sixty-years. Standing beside a fence Peter points out the field behind him which has been carefully selected and purchased for Heritage Homes. From a helicopter the replica van parked in the lane beside the field which then drives away. The image of the van transforms into that of a computer animation and the empty green-field site which changes into an estate of houses. At his desk in the Yuill Design Department an architect works with state-of-the-art CAD (computer Aided Design) facilities on the design of a new bungalow. On the monitor the camera going inside the house showing the layout inside before pulling back outside. The computer image of the bungalow morphs into a real house with Peter Macann walking along the path and standing beside the front door. He turns to camera and talks about both the quality of its designs as well as its construction. Going inside he walks into the living room to talk about the range of Heritage houses styles on offer. A circular sign on a brick wall for Blaise Garden Village near Hartlepool dated 1990, a Jaguar car drives into the estate followed by a montage of various houses and flats available. The Jaguar pulls into the driveway of one of the larger houses on the estate. A series of certificates and awards presented to Yuill for their house building sit in frames on a desk. At Collingwood Court sheltered housing scheme near Morpeth in Northumberland both a Civic Trust Award 1988 and National Housing Design Award 1989 are mounted on a brick wall. Along the river Wansbeck a woman sits on a bench reading while a mother and child walk along the riverbank towards the Collingwood Court development nearby. General views around the development of interlocking courtyards followed by interview with Yuill Project Architect Jane Darbyshire about her work on both this and the Blaise Garden developments. The replica Heritage delivery van pulls into a car park, from the window on the drivers cab Peter Macann talks about the various other commercial and business projects undertaken by Yuill. Back in the Yuill Design Department another architect works with the CAD system to work out time and costing plans for a new development. Another montage sequence featuring not only homes but also businesses and commercial developments as well as the Washington Leisure Centre where various sporting and keep-fit activities are taking place inside. At another development for North Housing Association Ltd a large banner sign for Yuill. Interview with Alan Kilburn from the association about what they do, and the work done for them by Yuill to produce houses to rent. At a Yuill building site on Loyalty Road in Hartlepool Peter Macann drives up and comes to a stop. He speaks to the camera about the importance of the street name and its connection to the company. A photograph of Cecil Yuill, founder of the company seventy years previous, changes to a workshop where apprentice joiners are at work learning carpentry. Views of a historic windmill in the village of Hart near Hartlepool on which the apprentices are working changes back to the workshop where an apprentice takes advise from a tutor. Interview with one of the apprentices, Andrew Harper, on the quality of training he is receiving. In a boardroom at Yuill's offices in Hartlepool Peter Macann conducts an interview with Managing Director Phillip Yuill. He is asked about what quality means to him and how he puts it into practice. Peter Macann makes his way back to the replica delivery van parked outside and opens the driver's side door. He makes a final speech to the camera about the company before getting in and driving away along another country road. Title: Building on Quality Credit: Conceived and written by Redheads Advertising Ltd Credit: Presented by Paul Macann Credit: Music Malcolm Rowe Credit: Archive footage by courtesy of Northern Film & TV Archive Credit: Film Crew Hoi Polloi Credit: Production Assistant Coreen Harvey Credit: VT Editor Andy Matthews Credit: Director Ian Singleton Credit: Producer Richard Johns Credit Quay Productions. Redheads End Credit: Heritage Yuill. Part of the Yuill Group