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Description: | The closure and sale of WTM Snape, Tea and Coffee Merchant, Queen Street, Wolverhampton.
Produced and directed by Brian Holmes. Running time 44 minutes.
Dedicated to Anne, Debbie and Nicki.
General shots of Wolverhampton city centre (to 2.05)
Archive photographs of Wolverhampton (to 3.00)
Stills of Snapes Tea Shop at work (to 3.30)
Interior of Safeway Supermarket (to 4.20)
Interior of Snapes at work to (4.50)
Interview with Phillip Parkes (1934 - 2002) owner, overlain with stills and moving images of Snapes (to 17.42)
The last trading day - customers and passers by give their thoughts on the end of an era (to 27.00)
Auctioneers in the shop removing items (to 30.00)
Snapes shop at auction, Sep 2002 (sold for 112,000) (to 38.05)
Ian Waldon, Director of Black Country Museum explains why they did not purchase the shop (to 39.32)
Views of the empty shop with comments from former customers (to 42.39)
Views of shop 'to let' (to 43.00)
Credits (to 44.00)
Thanks to members of the Parkes family, Bristol Record Office, Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies, Chris Sidebottom, Walker Barnett and Hill Auctioneers, Express and Star, Black Country Living Museum, Safeway Supermarkets, former customers of Snapes, Paul Holmes for cover deign, John Bland, Mike Brown and Nick Brown for technical advice.
Edited and narrated by Brian Holmes.
Closing poem from 'Twelve Songs' by WH Auden, used with permission of Curtis Brown Ltd. Copyright 1940 All Rights Reserved.
Music was 'Discovery', AKM Music Themes
An Ivy House Production | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Subjects: | Video (VHS) | Temporal: | 2002 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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