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film-maker in a relative’s attic. The film shows some of the 10,000, predominantly female, head-scarfed workforce preparing the shells that would later rain down on German trenches. It’s an incredible haul, a lost, nearcentury old record of day-to-day life on what must have been a terrifying production line. We at The Beestonian will be hosting the film when it’s digitised, and passing it on to local history projects as a sad, yet precious archive of a terrible day. Lord Beestonia
OXJAM RETURNS TO TAKEOVER BEESTON ON expressing his horror. By August, OCTOBER 20TH! redundancy or relocation, and there will be a „hiatus of was at a record factory production trading‟. level. Oxjam’s Beeston Takeover raised over Story: Lord Beestonia and with the help £4,600 last year, and with 11 cities and „Relocation‟ is hardly an option for most of the staff. Those who work on part-time conThe factory eventually ofceased Cllr. Janet Patrick towns confirmed already, this year it’s and tracts will not find travelling around, and possibly outside the county ,economically productionfeasible. in 1919, and thehelpful accident other volunteers, in over signatures in hoping took to trounce that2,000 figure completely. marked little-seen memorial, Staff have not been given any sort of timeline on when this will happen, and how with long athis just a few hours, a true example information of a community pulling For up-to-date on venues, the difficultin to access for the general „hiatus‟ will last for. If the inaction and incompetency of the parties concerned originally and what has to look forward follow together to ensureline-up that Beeston a voice, andto,not publicno as one it lies behind the razorfinding a site continues in the same manner it has done for the last few years, should on Twitter Last merelyBarracks. at the mercythem to the whims(@oxjambeeston). of developers, planning wired fences of Chetwynd be holding their breath. year was a head total success, committees and chain-store offices.with many bands, acts and live performances going a long However, a recent may give an However, there maybe some hope. Since the announcement broke, a huge groundswell hasfind Ifthe youweeks would like toway make your voice heard, to give Nottingham’s Dotwrite to Dottoa your incredible insight into developed, attracting, and thus being perpetuated by, media interest in the form of the BBC MP/local councillor, and sign the online petition at http:// run for its money. Let’s keep up the good leading up to the explosion. Several Radio Nottingham and The Nottingham Post. A petition was swiftly put together by myself, www.ipetitions.com/petition/savewilkos/ work to make Oxjam Takeover History. . reels of old film, preserved from Obviously, we’ll publish the line-up and the elements after being wrapped ticket information as and when it’s available. in tissue paper and stored in a dry Watch this space.... TF box, has been uncovered by a local