Cornwall's Longest Serving Vet

From the collection of

Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

Cornwall's Longest Serving Vet (Today South West)

The Box
Par
1989-02-23
Sound

Veterinarian recalls longstanding career.

Tom Jackson, Cornwall's longest-serving Christian vet, is retiring after 50 years of running his rural local practise. In an interview he mentions the practises which were around when he first started, such as the use of ether and chloroform as an anaesthetic for sedation. He discusses how these practises have changed over the years.

Working Life and Homelessness

Life and economics in the South West.

Here we have some harder hitting titles from the SWFTA collection at The Box, revealing what it's like to live in the South West during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Several stories explore issues around work life / home life balance, while we also see people struggling with redundancy, mental health issues, rural homelessness, tax and recession. But it's not all doom and gloom: there are also uplifting news stories of entrepreneurial spirit, people discussing the economic growth of the South-West, a fit-for-work awards ceremony and a dentist's office opening its doors in order to debunk myths that all dentists are scary.

25 videos in this collection

Futurework Part 1

Hatherleigh
1986-09-01

Futurework Part 2

Ilfracombe
1986-09-01

One and All: A Question of Cornwall pt 3

Truro
1989-02-21