School Trip to Bricklayers, 1970s - Film 1006728

This film is available to license from our website at Huntley Film Archives, by searching for film 1006728 in our Film # search bar: https://www.huntleyarchives.com/ A 1970s British education television series with an episode on the bricklaying and building industry in the UK. The film shows builders and bricklayers working on a construction site. A group of children and their teacher are shown a variety of jobs and skills used by bricklayers. They are shown how to mix concrete and how to lay a brick wall. One of the boys uses a brick hammer and the kids take rubbings of a brick wall. In the classroom children paint their wall rubbings and are shown different kinds of bricks. A group of children, accompanied by their teacher stand and watch a builder working on a building site. The man shovels cement dust and pours water into a cement mixer. In a different part of the construction site a man uses a pick to dig the ground. A group of three boys take it in turns to look through a surveyors level on a tripod. One of the bricklayers uses a brick hammer to crack one of the bricks in half. He uses a trowel to knock the chunk of brick into a hole and then uses cement to seal the brick. Another one of the builders fills a concrete mixer with cement and water as the group of children look on. Once the builder has filled the rotating drum with mixed cement he turns a large wheel and this dumps the concrete on to the ground with other cement. Another builder comes over to the pile of wet cement and uses a spade to put a hod to carry the mortar. The builder carrying the hod walks through the building site followed by the group of children. He places the hod of mortar next to a bricklayer. The skilled worker lays down mortar with a trowel then places bricks into the mortar building a wall. As the man lays bricks the children watch on. In a different part of the building site two men load hods with bricks and then carry them over to the bricklayer who lays the bricks wit