Weaving for Ships

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Weaving for Ships

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Location

Belfast, Belfast Harbour

Year

1960

Date

1960's

Length

02min 25sec

Audio

silent

Format

Betacam

black and white

Source

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

A clip from Norman Stockton's programme about the UTV archives. 

Footage shows process of transporting flax at the Belfast docks, before it is put through a machine and spun onto a large spool. Following this, there is a line of women weaving nets and another machine creating rope. 

Notes

Belfast blossomed as a commercial and industrial centre in the 18th and 19th centuries and became Ireland's pre-eminent industrial city. Industries thrived, including linen, rope-making, tobacco, heavy engineering and shipbuilding, and at the end of the 19th century, Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the largest city in Ireland. The Harland and Wolff shipyards became one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, employing up to 35,000 workers

Credits

A Martin : Stockton Production for UTV.

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