Stanton Iron Works, 16mm cine film transfer with Robert Lindsay

Another project we are working on is to resurrect the life and times of our local Stanton Iron Works which was unfortunately closed by the French owners in May 2007 but at it's height employed 12,000 local people.

Footage was found in a skip of the plant which follows the company's history in the 1940s right up to the 1960s, much of the footage shows the 500lb bomb making plant in 1944, when Stanton was converted from drain pipes and sewer manufacture to bombs, gun barrels and air raid shelters for the war effort.

All the film found is in 16mm format. We transferred this for the local Erewash museum over a perioDanny Cornsd of around a year. Now the BBC, Erewash Museum program Inside Out has put together a short film showing the footage that Timeless Moments transferred for the Erewash museum.

Actor Robert Lindsay who was born in Ilkeston retraces his steps back to his first job shovelling S**T!

This program featuring footage shot inside the now mothballed plant by Timeless Moments was originally shown shown on March3rd 2009

Ian Litchfield