We wanted to share a brand new page that’s been added to our sister website, Herefordshire Life Through a Lens. It’s called ‘The River Wye and clean water’ and it features some older films made by Catcher Media for the Waterworks Museum in Hereford many years ago. Nowadays, the state of the River Wye and the nation’s rivers is the cause of grave environmental concern, and the private water companies are being rightly scrutinised, but these films were produced with a more educational bent (in some cases over 20 years ago). However, they are of historical interest as so much of their material relates to various aspects of Herefordshire county.
The first film tells “the story of the great River Wye” while the others, in their different ways, chart the development of clean water technologies in the county, and the pumps and engines that made it all possible. Alongside lovely cameos by our daughters, Aimee and Nina, the viewer will find references to Rhayader, Hay-on-Wye, Ross-on-Wye, Monmouth, Bromyard, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye, among others. The city of Hereford gets a lot of attention, as does the fabulous Waterworks Museum itself. And so it should. Check out the museum via their website.
NB: Please note, as some of the work was filmed in SD the pixel quality is 720×576.