Building the Industrial Revolution. Industrial architecture of the East Midlands. A film for European Architectural Heritage Year - ACE050.5

Decorative architectural features. A "combination of Renaissance palace and Byzantine church", the Faire Brothers warehouse, Leicester, and the Frank Wilkinsons’s Anglo-Scotian Mills, Beeston (1886). Stone lettering on Castle Ashby, home of the Marquis of Northampton; a similar feature on the nearby Barratt’s shoe factory. Small shoe-maker’s workshop; commentary talks about the organisation of shoe factories as an example of the people’s response to industrialisation. The Manfield building, Northampton (1857). Commentary reports on the strike of 1859; VO reading appeal by employers to local workers not to obstruct introduction of machinery. Shoe factory. Interior and exterior Manfield building; VO reads Boot and Shoe Workers’ Mutual Protection Society’s response to appeal. Shoe factory. Portrait of Richard Arkwright. Credits.