School Trip to Bricklayers, 1970s - Film 1006728

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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 with another man.
The bricklayer shows the children how to use a brick hammer to split bricks into smaller chunks. He gives the brick hammer to the teacher who breaks another brick in half. After the teacher has a go he gives the hammer and a brick to one of the children. The young boy struggles to hold the brick and use the hammer but eventually he manages to break the brick in half and the other children applaud.
The builder goes back to work and uses a small tool to fill in gaps in the mortar and smooth it down. The children go to look at a completed built house and then look at the bricks in the outside wall.
The children use sheets of paper and crayons to take rubbings of the brick wall. Back in their classrooms the children use paint to decorate the rubbings they have taken. Other children use wooden blocks to build a wall on the desk. The teacher shows the children different types of house bricks. The children pin their rubbings and paintings to the wall of their classroom.
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