The Building of an engineering works in Goldsmith Avenue, Portsmouth

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Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

The Building of an engineering works in Goldsmith Avenue, Portsmouth

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Fratton
1937-01-01
Silent
17m

W J Evans’ film starts at an office meeting before we see men working outside on the demolition and construction of a section of the Marcyn Works on Goldsmiths Road, Fratton. Trolleybuses and traffic pass along the road as the construction continues.We see new machinery being unloaded and installed in the new building and both men and women are seen working at lathes and milling machines. Around them the remaining construction work continues as glaziers complete the roof.

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