Window Cleaning
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Shows professional window clearners working inside and outside buildings in London, at the Belvedere Electricity Power Station in Essex, and in Norwich, using an ex-fire engine fitted with a window cleaning cradle.
- Researcher Comments
- Commentary: These days window-cleaning isn’t women’s work. Pathe Pictorial takes you up Britain’s tall buildings with the modern spiderman window-cleaners who train for three years before they graduate from the rank of "tumbler" on a ten-foot ladder to the rank of "shiner", when you ride in a cradle or a bosun’s chair at skyscraper height. We even visit a Norwich window-cleaner who operates with a fire-engine that has a power-operated ladder taking him up to a height of well over a hundred feet.
- Keywords
- Industry and manufacture; Newsreels
- Locations
- London; Norwich; England; Essex; Norfolk
- Written sources
- British Pathe online database
Pathe Pictorial Issue Sheets Used for commentary
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Tim Brinton
- Length of story (in feet)
- 252
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How to cite this record
'Window Cleaning', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 414, 3 Dec 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121307 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)