Author Topic: British Pathe film footage: Youth on Q4  (Read 3060 times)

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Offline Stowaway2k

British Pathe film footage: Youth on Q4
« on: Dec 19, 2009, 04:20 PM »


"Youth on 736"

Note: the film is a bit hazy, but the same film footage can be seen in the British Pathe link (see below)

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link to Vimeo with film footage of Youth on Q4
Media:  video/film footage
Description:  film footage showing and naming some of the John Brown apprentices working on the ship, in the Drawing Office, and the IBM Key Punch operators in the accounting office.   
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Offline Waverley

British Pathe film footage: Youth on Q4
« Reply #1 on: Aug 30, 2010, 10:05 PM »
Nice to see.   This is the link to the same film footage on British Pathe web site. 



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Source: British Pathe film footage: Youth on Q4 Media URN 56358; Film ID 2037.35
Media:  video/film footage
Description:  film footage showing and naming some of the John Brown apprentices working on the ship, in the Drawing Office, and the IBM Key Punch operators in the accounting office.   
« Last Edit: May 28, 2024, 07:49 AM by Lynda Bradford »
Robert

Online Lynda Bradford

British Pathe film footage: Youth on Q4
« Reply #2 on: Sep 29, 2010, 09:20 PM »
Robert

Thanks for posting this video clip about the young people who had worked on the QE2.  It is easy to forget that in the 1960's the school leaving age in Scotland was fifteen and young people started work at this age.   Apprentiships may have been started at sixteen (need to check this out). 

I found this video particularly interesting as my brother started his working life as an apprentice electrician in John Brown's then he changed his apprentiship to the Drawing Office.  I know that he had worked on QE2 drawings so I was particularly interested to see the young people in the Drawing Office who would have been there at the time when my brother worked in John Brown's. 

It was also interesting to see the IBM Key Punch Machines as when I started work in 1966 I was offered a job as a key punch operator in John Brown's but I turned it down as I did not want to work in John Brown's beside my brother and Dad (you could be choosy in those days as there was lots of jobs to choose from). 
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I was proud to be involved with planning QE2's 50 year conference in September 2017 in Clydebank

Offline Bob C.

British Pathe film footage: Youth on Q4
« Reply #3 on: Sep 30, 2010, 01:46 AM »
That was my age group back in '69.  It was all very intersting stuff to me back then - great programs.
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