John Players Factory Nottingham 

This bought back memories of my mum. She worked at Players when she left school at fourteen in 1940 till 1950. Then again for a few years in the 1960's. I'd forgotten about the overalls. I think they were dark green with a beige collar. I remember her washing them at the weekend. She worked really long hours as they said in the film but sometimes they would be on short time. Although the work was long and boring I think the friendships the girls made helped them get through the day. My mum worked in the leaf room initially but didn't like it so she got a job in the canteen and always said it was the best job she ever had. She later worked in packing. I wish she was here today to see this film sadly she passed away two years ago ages 95.

I love the old British '60s documentaries wish there more

The woman trade union rep is brilliant, we need more people like here today

I worked at Stapleford Cemetery as a gravedigger.Stanton & Staveley moulding concrete pipes,2 times Gregory's Roses, Lowes Rose Gardens, a golf course near Bramcote Hills and numerous other jobs and then in 1970 went to Toronto Canada came back and worked 12 hour shifts at Raleigh Cycles to save some money and then went overland to Australia through a dozen countries and never returned . Retired now in Australia after 20 years working in Asia. But I do have wonderful memories now at 70 of the times and girls of Nottingham. What a wonderful documentary that was and the characters of the females.

No one ever thought about following up to find these people years later . See if they're still alive and what happened to them later in life.. Locking all the doors is a really really bad idea. Health wise..

My mum worked at Players during the 1950s and 1960s while my sister and I were at school. It makes me sad now to look at this film all these years later and see how bleak it was. I wish I could talk to her about it, but sadly she has been gone for a while now.

Amazing how much people cared about each other even the work floor inspector visting an employee who had been ill and lived alone and help her to get out and meet people again. They even kept in touch with retired employees and gave them home bust a too. Such a shame there is no sense of community in today's soceity,no one seems to care for those who haven't got family .❤

Players, Raleigh, Gerards soap factory, and the old lace factories. Absolutely brilliant years. xpat

Doo Wah Diddy by Manfred Mann featured in the film with teenagers dancing to it, was released in the UK in July 1964. Based on the lack of tree foliage in the shots of the personnel lady and her husband by the river Trent, you can therefore assume this was filmed in late Autumn 1964. Fascinating stuff regardless.👍🏼

As a 1960 baby born just south of Nottingham this documentary drew my attention and it is interesting to read the many comments from others; my immediate observation though was the diction and relatively mild regional accent of the factory workers, they certainly seemed much more eloquent than I would have expected.

I love the union lady. She's smart, genuine, and absolutely practical. Little did she know that women would still be fighting for equal pay and opportunities for promotions in 2018.

This definitely has the 'Saturday night ,Sunday morning ' movie vibe

Great post. The union rep is an amazing woman and the lass from personnel can tick me off anytime.

I love the honesty of this. Nobody would be this honest in a documentary filmed at work now!

Amazing video!!Ive just witnessed this factory being demolished,all the history from this place is unreal.Many families were supported by the work this place offered.Shame,but life moves on

Born and bred in the Meadows in the early 60s and proud of it, mi duck.

I could tell that Irene Fowler was naturally intelligent. That's why she won a scholarship to Nottingham University. But, I've worked alongside employees like Irene, that left school earlier, with few qualifications, but are naturally very intelligent, but couldn't thrive in a school system. On leaving school, they become successful.

Very interesting. Good folk from Nottingham.

Whatever happen to the women in the film, it would be very interesting to know.

Nottingham born and bread and Proud, great time capsule, a time machine back to the 60's.

My auntie worked at john players in the 70s its strange seeing the market squire

Brilliant, thanks.

Lived in Notts from 1982 for a year or two …loved it, but i can’t remember the beautiful speaking voices of the ladies as depicted in this utube… things have changed!

I have a 35mm film advert, "people love players" needs to be seen, free to someone..

Loved the sixties

My god we've come no further

Long before i was born interesting video thank you so much

The trade Union lady wanted equality but then thanked her husband for giving his consent allowing her to do trade Union work.

Very interesting to watch !!!!!!

The UNI qualified personnel manager shares the same traits of the modern UNI graduate i.e. that they have never experienced the working life of the people they deal with and therefore see them as low lives, nothing changes.

Love the train union lady.

The woman in the trade union is only 40 ... my goodness! Seems like a nice woman though.

My ex’s father got me a summer job in the cafeteria there one year. My relatives liked the free cigarettes. It was actually a good place to work.

I wounder what happened to that gorgeous young lady with the blonde hair i do hop she went on too have a wonderful and successful life god bless

Factory work was hard, however you earned more than salesladies and office workers.

memories..1966 left school...no desire to work..loved reading in central library...some jobs car wash projectionist harry wheatcroft roses in middle of winter..camera shop...stole picture from nottingham castle museum...lincoln prison then borstal...came out bought a motorcycle..headed for londone.. never went back to nottingham..

ahhhh those early days of our slavery

Doors locked?

Lived in Radford,Mum hung the washing out ,it stank of tobacco when brought in .

i love it so much

My beloved city has been ruined by inept councillors.

i wonder what became of the beautiful blonde girl

I’d been at work elsewhere for a year when this was made. When looking at Top of the Pops from the 60’s I often think about those attractive girls, and in this video, and how the aging process whilst inevitable seems unfair when you go back 60 years.

The accent seems strange to me and Nottingham was my home around this period and for 20 years afterwards. I think a lot of people "posh up" their voice and behaviour on camera. I knew quite a few people as well as my mother who worked at Players and they all gave the impression that it was a happy place to work with good wages and pension scheme.

The Nottingham accent was stronger then ,so much more diluted now

Working there was like living in strange ways prison The reason for this of course is because they didn't want thefts of the cigarettes it had more security than Fort Knox In Kentucky

I've worked in a place like this............ Alcan Ekco in Chesham.... I'm so glad the site got demolished ... As my work pension got totally fucked up! For what! Stress????

Working ten hours a day five and half days a week.

Brilliant👍

20:43 a dashboard light comes on and there's a click as she approaches the car and opens the door. She gets in, closes the door and the light goes out. This ought not to be possible. This is the 1960's and there should be no remote central locking.

You went to players,boots,Raleigh ,or Drury and Edward's or Bastows

There's a jib between East and West, ie, men and women, things in circumstance, that year 1960s, now 2021, a whole new world.

Admit things may have been tough if you were a woman working at John players but trust me when I tell you I built all the bloody Council estate housing with my bare hands so they could have a decent home to live in rather than the squalor & filth Of post war housing. You can't have it both ways Those kids in the 60s didn't know how good they had it

At last scientist have found something that can do the work of 10 men...... 1 woman!

The young blonde woman I bet was an actress.. Very posh voice slipping through, not the management one.. who loves to say she works for the management

Anyone rember when the fountains were instaled in slab square? And how the water went blue when a copoer got thrown in? 😂

My gosh --- no personnel officer today would be called on to do social work. Not in my experience, anyway.

Think this film was made by one of those left-wing “angry young men”! Gives a totally wrong impression of working at Players, and I was there for over 30 years. Highest wages in Nottingham, a large annual bonus, a huge athletic and social club. An enlightened and philanthropic employer.

looked so much healthier bk then. teeth aren't so jacked up

Privileged to work in that factory ,I have watched these docos on the London slums etc these people are me makes me sick I'm so called white and privileged. Great film

Jill hates that place.

These are the women that helped make it possible for Players to sponsor motorsports for many years. Anybody know where they were getting their tobacco? USA or elsewhere? In retrospect, tobacco firms spent a pile on marketing through motorsports. Here in the US, Winston was a lynchpin sponsor for NASCAR.

wheres the names...wheres the follow ups...with family

Speaking to older people who were employed in these sort of factories I find that the women invariably couldn't wait to meet a man and get married as this would alleviate the monotony of a factory job. Some women I have spoken to saw marriage as a blessing and preferred being a housewife and mother to the noisy fast paced factories

111 he’s back ♟

I'm surprised at how well articulated were,considering the fact that education was very limited or non existant in some cases.

❤

Nottingham accent sounded different back then meh duck 🦆

3:50 she has failed at her job right at the start... Because she is supposed to remain a liaison, instead she used the phrase "the other side" so she's already chosen a "side". She will fail the employees before she's begun.

Its all terrible pay and conditions but at the end of the day, higher wages demanded by the unions and foreign competition lost them their jobs. Some would say what was really needed was real change in this country. Total slum clearance, free health care, and they were better off without those sort of jobs and living on a better dole system. Not forgetting better education to start with..!!!

Hyson green Radford Nottingham, born n bred

God save the governing class thankyou your lordship an your Earl shit

Im a HCA and lve been under paid 2000 year for 15 years management new all along whats so disgusting I work for the NHS

One Building remains now. What was left. exploring the grounds felt Dystopian. I- Need a Time Machine. Seeing that one remaining building at night- Makes me feel nostalgic! Or somewhat Spooky.

Human Resources is there for the employer. They pay their wages.

it was alright making them as long as it was not you smoking them cancer sticks mmmmmm

bob a lob

Overtime - Overtime, what's Overtime ... Overtime should be voluntary not compulsory, many people would live at work if they could because they are just greedy sods.

I feel so sorry for that one black woman in this vid 9:00mins , I wonder who she was? I wonder how racist it was at Players, must have pretty bad on top of all the other injustices all of the other women were facing. Both my mum and gran worked at Rolls Royce in this same era, they never spoke about it.

A lot of work to assist people in killing themselves by smoking

Such ignorance of business and economics coming from the trade union woman and the others. Shameful 🤨