Summerstown Works: staff outings
Standard 8mm film Colour;Black & White Mute ? 13:05
Summary: Factory day trip.
Tea, funfair rides and massive boats feature in this film of staff from a London factory enjoying a day trip to Southend in the 1930s.
Title number: 19769
LSA ID: LSA/26212
Description: Staff from a cardboard box factory in south-west London are seen in the factory and on a trip to Southend – such outings were a popular way of maintaining morale. Workers drink tea in a café on the front, visit the pier and then head to the Kursaal funfair. Includes some great shots of the factory and of laidback, enthusiastic workers throughout the trip. In the middle of this colour footage comes some black-and-white film of a staff photograph being taken.
Further information: Summerstown, now largely lost to modern maps, is the area around Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium. Next to the Wandle, it attracted a lot of light industry such as Hugh Stevenson’s cardboard box factory. This was amalgamated with Bowater in 1971 and the site was occupied by several small commercial firms and has now been sold for housing.
Locations: Southend
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