Barrow-in-Furness : Shipyard clip (1935)

Colourised snippet from the film Shipyard showing Paul Rotha's "fast cutting" montage clip style.

At one point there is a poster advertising a "Hospital Parade and Carnival" for Saturday July 7th. Saturday 7th July making the actual year of this clip 1934.

[LuvBritTV]

Lovely! I have walked across that bridge many a time as a girl born and raised in Barrow. I worked at the shipyard right out of school on the PBX switchboard! Emigrated age 18 to Canada in '72... I do miss Barrow, the sea, the people were great back then. I've seen videos of it's decline, it's very sad. Happening everywhere, even where I am in Canada... damn politicians ruining our lands near and far! Thank you, brought back warm memories. ♥

[davidnoble]

Great that you keep finding these little gems.

[rogeremmott]

Fantastic insight into the life of the town.

[paulstix]

Hallo Neil, wow the proper old days .

[incrediblefruit]

I worked there back in the early 90s and remember that noise when it was end of shift and the swarm who erupted from the gates...i remember seeing at least one bloke getting knocked off his bike by a car and heard of another who pinched some lead and wrapped it round his body but fell over on the way out, couldn't get up and was nicked

[lundsweden]

Up until the 80s, when most things were made in what was then called industrialised countries, making things equalled being developed. Now developing countries make most things, and developed (formally ca.led industrialised) make very little, other than agricultural products and "knowledge".

[howardmckeown]

why did they make the roads/streets so wide? Weren't we lucky they did