The Stanlow Story

1/6/2025

Stuart Legg wrote the narration here as this documentary uses some actuality and quite futuristic looking artists impressions to explain the plan of action before, and then proceeds to follow the construction of a facility that would require 4,000 people to excavate, build and fit before it became the largest plant of it's kind in Europe. The film production started in 1949 and followed the ground preparation, tunnel boring and lining, then the gradual elevation of thousands of tons of reinforced concrete as the complex takes shape. The photography captures the industry ongoing during this process well, and as altitude filming becomes easier the grand scale of the proposition begins to emerge, easily dwarfing those working on the project and their hundred foot high derricks. There's the bu