Employees Leaving Fowler's Ironworks, Leeds (1901)
A beautifully composed film of Edwardian factory workers as they rush for home.
Nothing remains today of John Fowler & Co.'s engineworks off Leathley Road in Hunslet, Leeds - but in 1901, when this film was made, the company was a leading manufacturer of agricultural and railway steam engines. This strikingly well-composed film of the workforce leaving the factory gives a powerful impression of the scale of human labour required by Edwardian industrial endeavour.
FACTORY GATE.