Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle (1900)

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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[@danielfreeley5217]

these change in how we work is amazing a works with 20,000 employees. It's virtually unimaginable now, for better or worse it's certainly a massive societal change.

[@Cam-pg4wl]

Of all the historical films like these , I find the factory gate ones the most interesting. When you realise that you are watching real scenes with everyday people from 120 years ago, it's actually quite mind- blowing.

[@99ontguy1]

Hat makers made a fortune in those days!

[@keithwaites9991]

Staggeringly good quality. .must be a new print off of the original negative

[@youngsteph1]

Nearly all the Mitchell & Kenyon films are like this. Eat your heart out Edison

[@FaerieCrone]

@TruckManMick And people in the future will say the exact same thing about us if they see a photo or watch a home movie with any of us in it.

[@billpowdrell]

google "Vickers Centenary" for the 100th anniversary of Vickers Armstrong. Their motto "Service In Peace & War".

[@nitramgnal]

@SteffanLlwyd They are all ghosts.

[@fabcmutd]

dis vry gud vedyo

[@juliehurst7382]

Working for a pittance all cloth caps and cigarettes kept the milliner and tobacco companys in business

[@TruckManMick]

Just think. Every single living thing in the film, is now DEAD!!! Weird!

[@terrym1964]

What's with the block capitals ? And no, it's not that weird

[@th8257]

There's a saying - "The living are just the dead on holiday".

[@charlottebruce979]

Every living creature on earth then is dead, that's mind blowing.

[@martinkulkarni3569]

@@charlottebruce979 Not all creatures. Some Turtles live for well over a hundred years!