Assembling a bearing, British Timken Works, Daventry, Northamptonshire 1957. Photograph by Maurice Broomfield, courtasy HOST Gallery.
The BBC has some beautiful pictures by Maurice Broomfield of factories across the UK in the 1950s. They are definitely worth a look.
But worringly - and in keeping with how the BBC portrays manufacturing - the piece leads off suggesting the 1950s and 60s was "an age in which Britain's industry was at its zenith".
Well, the sector is now bigger, leaner and more innovative as well as greener, safer and more efficient than it was in the 1950s and 60s. Yet the BBC insists on showing clips of industry rooted in dated myths of dirt and decline.
Maybe the BBC should commission another set - or better yet, hold a photographic competition to celebrate British industry, rather than constantly relying on stock footage.