Children Painting

From 'Faces of Harlow', the children of a local school create a painting on camera. It's rather good, even though, in the best Tony Hart tradition, it looks shit all the way up to the reveal.

The kid's verdict on their own work? 'Too much green on one side'.

Leisures and Pleasures

More 'Faces of Harlow', this time enjoying various leisure and sporting activities.

Faces Of Harlow

No new town ever had a better friend than Harlow did in Derrick Knight. In ‘Faces Of Harlow’, Knight makes the not particularly exciting town look like a jet age utopia of equality and social harmony, a place where a basic kitchenette is presented as state of the art; where a prefabricated social club is presented like The Ritz; a comprehensive school like The Sorbonne.

But why not?

We know that, materially, at least, these amenities were almost certainly considerable improvements on what was there before – and far better than what the residents may have been used to in whatever part of bombed London they had been relocated from. Hot water, central heating, indoor toilets, space, a garden – all things that we take for granted - why not big it up and worry about the sociology and psychology later? Yeah, let’s do that, it’s 1964, for fuck’s sake.