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Parkgate Iron and Steel Co., Rotherham (1901)

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Look out for what is probably the first appearance of the abusive 'V' sign in British film history!
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. For more information about the films of Mitchell and Kenyon see
http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/mk/


Added: Mar-24-2012 
By: gemini
In: Other Entertainment
Tags: history
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  • Very very cool historical stuff. The fact that this survived on celluloid is absolutely amazing.

    I do archival imaging. I've done work with thousands of negatives and prints dating as far back as the 1850's. Some of the Daguerrotypes have been by far the most amazing images I've ever seen in terms of quality. But I have only ONCE dealt with nitrate negatives that were reasonably well-preserved. It's not that there weren't plenty of them made. The problem is most of them are GONE. They si More..

    Posted Mar-24-2012 By 
    NotJim (1011.90)  

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    • @NotJim have you heard the amazing story of these films NJ?, not long after these were made they were put into three sealed metal urns and placed in his shops basement area - and here they stayed for a hundred years until thankfully found by a worker who was demolishing the street of shops ... the rest is history as they say!

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      thecleaner001 (11802.18)  

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  • Great vid, I love old stuff like this. I find it amazing how different the world is just over a hundred years later.

    Posted Mar-24-2012 By 
    spellingpolice (373.00)  

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  • gold-dust!

    Posted Mar-24-2012 By 
    thecleaner001 (11802.18)  

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  • One thing for sure, they are all dead now.

    Posted Mar-24-2012 By 
    truebrit49 (272.22)  

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  • We have an office in Rotherham

    There's hardly any industry left and now all we have are mosques and hundreds and hundreds of unemployed mussys wandering about looking like washing lines.

    What a tragedy

    Posted Mar-24-2012 By 
    Ohforfoxache (978.98)  

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  • Looks like a good place back in the day to make a pay check or catch a beat-down. Probably both.

    Posted Mar-24-2012 By 
    kamotz (202.06)

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