Billingsgate Hats (1949)

Billingsgate Fish Market, London. L/S exterior Billingsgate Market. Various C/Us fish porters unloading van outside market, they carry large crates on their heads. Their heads are protected by the special type of leather hat they wear: “bobbins“. Various shots of master-cordwainer John Williams Fain, at work making a leather bobbin hat. He works alone in his workshop in Lovat Lane, he is the last of the bobbin craftsmen. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage ca