Battersea Power Station, 1950s - Film 1093783

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1093783 in our Film # search bar: Britain’s fuel industry in the 1950s. Battersea Power Station, manufacturing and coal mining Interior of a tractor factory, in which recycled rubber is used to make tyres, busy shop floor with factory workers assembling different parts of the agricultural machinery. One man takes a rivet gun from a suspended wire. He uses it quickly to attach a metal plate to a wheel. Another does the same, tightening the nuts. Outside Battersea Power Station on the river Thames, London, a barge loaded with coal - clear view of the funnel as an iron claw comes down and lifts up a quantity of coal, as it gets pulled upwards, we see the crane which is manoeuvring it and the smoking chimneys of the power station in the distance, the claw opens and empties its load into a large funnel. Coal miners underground at the pit face, several men with lamps on their heads crawl towards the camera in the mine, a miner wearing overalls pauses to look around. Dark view of a miner digging at the ground, you can see his headlamp battery strapped to his belt. A motorised coal hurrier pulling several waggons, corves of minecarts through a tunnel. Huntley Film Archives is a film library holding tens of thousands of films. The large majority of the films are documentaries. Films cover a wide range of subjects and production dates range from the 1890’s to the 2020’s. As with all libraries we make no judgement on the content of our holdings and make them available for educational purposes for all to see. Films may have content or express opinions some may think inappropriate or offensive, but it is not the work of a library to censor educational resources. Films should be viewed with historical objectivity and within a context relevant to the times in which they were produced