Looking at London: Victoria Line, 1969

This film explores the development and construction of the Victoria Line, with a look at Highbury and Islington and Euston Underground stations. Original footage of engineers using specialist machinery to bore tunnels is shown, with an explanation of how tunnels are lined and decorated once created.
Footage is also shown of escalators being tested for weight and the new introduction of automatic fare gates, with a brief retrospective on Underground trains during the late 1800's and how they look now.
Date: 1969
Reference No: ILEA/VID/01/1151
Collection: ILEA
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[@mikekavanagh8952]

Good Presentation.

[@burgerman2337]

That guys voice is SO F****** creepy!

[@TheMelamia]

Thank you! I don't know if I will make it through the entire film. His voice is incredibly annoying...

[@owood2288]

+BurgerMan233 It's a young Fred West isn't it?

[@user-jt1jv8vl9r]

He is odd! Whereas she has a lovely voice.

[@mickeydodds1]

He sounds off his head.

[@diobrando2160]

Better than a "BAME" :)

[@Dripfed]

No St Pancras, although they did intend to close it...And London Bridge has jumped the river. Fact Nazi checking out. Gotta love the guys patronising voice from about 2 minus onwards.

[@davidyoung5114]

Isn't that the late Pete Posthethwaite? He was born in 1946, so he'd have been in his 20's when this was produced, and this would be the kind of acting job a young actor would take.

[@user-jt1jv8vl9r]

He looks older than 20s

[@barbaraannecortina7899]

You need to go to fucking Specsavers if you think that's Pete Postlethwaite. The late actor was born in Warrington for starters and he had prominent cheekbones - this feller must be a teacher. Fancy thinking that was Pete Postlethwaite - I suggest you stick a dunce's cap on and go to the back of the room for that, not to mention your bad fucking spelling.

[@LorcanMak]

LOL yer man

[@heathstjohn6775]

Was this for children ?
Some groaningly obvious remarks, made at an excrutiatingly laborious pace, for anyone over 8. ' It's necessary to move people through London...', and '...there's quite a lot down there...', when refering to the services underground, possibly being the most eyelid lowering examples.
The lady's voice made it endurable.

[@marksinthehouse1968]

It was made for the inner London education authority the dept in the GLC that looked after schools in the Greater London area from mid 60s until thatcher abolished it in the mid 80s I was in school from 1971 until I left in 1984 to join the post office and the standards of education were good unlike now sad to say,it even had its own Tv service like this one only schools could receive it it was called the closed circuit Tv service studios in county hall I think the bbc helped too

[@heathstjohn6775]

@@marksinthehouse1968 Ah ! Thanks very much.