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A smith and a hammerman forging a large square billet using an heavy duty B & S Massey steam hammer in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Pieter van der Merwe, the cameraman, and the presenter, believed to be Fred Beckwith, chief foreman of the smiths, in an office or rest room in Chatham Dockyard viewing the video they have made of No. 1 Smithery. (Colour transparency)
Pieter van der Merwe making a video of locksmiths in their workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A film crew setting up in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Filming a smith making a new spring at his bench in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Two members of a film crew and the senior locksmith in the locksmiths' workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
An head and shoulders portrait of Pieter van der Merwe during filming of the chain pit in the chain testing facility in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Filming a smith at work in the chain testing facility in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A film crew on the site of No. 2 Smithery filming the west facade of No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Three members of a film crew preparing their equipment in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Members of the Chatham Home Guard standing at ease while on parade. (Monochrome transparency)
A general view of Docks 2, 3 and 4, the Clock Tower Building and the Admiral's Offices on Main Gate Road in Chatham Dockyard, taken from an elevated position on a crane adjoining No. 3 Slip Shed. (Colour transparency)
A smith making a new spring using the John Bull coiling machine in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A smith forging a large square billet using an heavy duty B & S Massey steam hammer in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A smith working at the John Bull coiling machine in the spring making workshop in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Three smiths sitting near on open furnace inside the extension in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
Smithery workers with various type of lifting gear, probably in the chain test house in Chatham Dockyard (Monochrome transparency)
Looking into an open gas-fired furnace in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A smith and a hammerman using an anvil to shape a chain link in the chain making shop in No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard (Monochrome transparency)
Rivetted steel units on the ground in the north bay of No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
An overhead view of part of a model of Chatham Dockyard as it existed in the mid 1700s. (Colour transparency)
A smith using a S. Russell & Sons Ltd heavy duty metal sawing machine, Yard No. 1347, in Number 5 Machine Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A general view of the main facade of No. 1 Smithery in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
A film crew making a video of metal items being treated in the tank in the zinc galvanising shop in Number 1 Boiler Shop in Chatham Dockyard. (Colour transparency)
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