Old Ways New Ways

How it feels

This documentary shows the closing of a biscuit factory in London that had been open for nearly 100 years. It looks at the factory's history and the people who worked there.

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What happens

Old Ways New Ways is a 1988 documentary film about the Peek Freans biscuit factory in Bermondsey and its closing down in the late 1980s. The film also looks back at nearly 100 years of the factory's life. Directed by Olivier Stockman and produced by Trevor Ingman at Sands Films Studios in London, with cinematography by John Fletcher. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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