Further information: In 2013, filmmaker Mike Cole-Hamilton provided this background information about his London films: 'I had planned to make a short film that showed the side of London then so little known outside. The subject was the East End of London (with emphasis on the Docks) to show the working end of London through the eyes of a stranger. A young man from the country, Sid, wanders around the familiar sights - including the Guards outside the railings at Buckingham Palace - and gradually works his way eastwards via the Embankment. He sees the Guards again, marching to the Bank(a lucky shot!), gets lost and asks directions from a passer-by (Dave), who is an East-ender. His new-found guide shows him such areas as Petticoat Lane, St. Katherine's Dock, the Ratcliffe Highway, Blackwall Yard, the Royal Group of Docks full of ships, Silvertownand the Thames at Woolwich (pre barrier), and the docks in the vicinity of the Tower. The closing shot is of the two parting company at Aldgate East tube station. The projectwasshot in the summer of 1959, during my own apprenticeship at R&H Green & Silley Weir, Royal Albert Dock. Regrettably, I had to do all filming at weekends so the docks are almost totally inactive. Filming was done on an absolute shoestring. Sid and I went up west one Saturday afternoon on my mother's Lambretta. We did all the West End footage and then met up with Dave to shoot the Sid/Dave meeting and departing. Most of the other East End footage was shot on a Sunday with a friend and a fellow apprentice. Sid was also a fellow apprentice and Dave was one of the turners at G&SW who had an elderly Riley of which he was justly proud and was used in filming.Everything was shot with an early '50s Kodak 8mm cine camera, no zoom. Because the project was not finished, no editing was done; so each reel is as shot. I had planned to dub voices over on a separate tape with background music. For this, I had a tape of 1950s pop played on a barrel organ , which was was one of many owned by a Mr. Tomasso of Mill Hill/Hendon area. Heran a jeweller's shop there and lovingly maintained the superb original family instruments.Sadly, the tape of Mr. Tomasso's barrel organ was lost.'