Guildford - an Engineman's View (steam locos and men)

DVD available from SVS Film at svsfilm.com
82 minutes plus bonus scenes on the Bluebell and A4 'Kingfisher' tour in March 1966.
Guildford -- an Engineman's View features the unique collection of 8mm cine film shot by Guildford driver Lew Wooldridge between 1963 and 1966. Lew's films are special as they were mostly taken while he was at work or from viewpoints not generally accessible to the public. Often filmed in poor light and never with a tripod, they nevertheless give us a rare insight into the people and their lives at the steam locomotive depot - over 80 staff members are identified. Lew also took his camera on some of the Guildford workings to such diverse locations as Woking, Walton, Feltham, Aldershot, Reading and even as far as Salisbury and Redbridge. Nothing physically remains today of the Guildford steam depot which closed in July 1967 but its memory lives on in these rare films.

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• Guildford
• steam
• locomotive