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A great surge of workers pushes through the gates of a Lancashire mill.
Non-Fiction 1902 1 mins Silent
The filmmakers, or their showmen colleagues, clearly persuaded the first wave of workers coming through the gates of the White Cross Mills to make their exit at a run. It certainly looks impressive, though the rest, all men and boys, are calmer. The Storey brothers had began producing oil cloth and baize at the mill when the bottom fell out of the cotton market in the mid-19th century.
Non-Fiction 1901 3 mins Silent Location: Rotherham
Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: St Helens
Weary glassmakers head home after morning shift.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Blackburn
Cheery child workers, averaging around 10 years old, leave the cotton mill after a shift.
Non-Fiction 1900 2 mins Silent Location: Blackburn
Lancashire cotton workers hurry to lunch after morning shift.
Non-Fiction 1900 2 mins Silent Location: Blackburn
Male and female millworkers - young and old - spill out after their shift.
Non-Fiction 1902 2 mins Silent Location: Warrington
A jovial crowd of Edwardian workers head home at dinner time in the Cheshire town.
Home movie 1950 9 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Congratulations to the happy couple! A lovely record of a special day in Lancaster.
Non-Fiction 1901 2 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Lancastrian workers spill out of a huge textile factory.
Non-Fiction 1902 3 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Some nifty product placement creeps in to this formal portrait of the Lancaster Volunteers.
Non-Fiction 1902 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Mitchell & Kenyon capture the 'lighter' side of Lancastrian officialdom.
Non-Fiction 1902 2 mins Silent Location: Lancaster
Workers at a Lancaster linoleum factory leave and the gate is firmly shut behind them.
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1933 2 mins
Hand-drawn sound experiment by Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy.
Advert 1974 1 mins Location: Shaftesbury
A classic slice of British advertising history, though that hill's not as Northern as it looks...
Non-Fiction 1901 3 mins Silent Location: Rotherham
Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.
Non-Fiction 1900 1 mins Silent Location: Great Moor St, Bolton
Eager youngsters burst out of the gates of a Victorian cotton mill.
Sport 1901 1 mins Silent Location: Henley-on-Thames
It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames
Advert 1898 1 mins Silent Location: St Pancras
An unusual farewell in this charming early film
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