Work and industry

Mail workers and machines cope with mountains of Christmas post, and the manager explains why Ipswich has been chosen as the regional sorting office for London mail.

The oyster industry is being revived in Suffolk, thanks to the efforts of Mr Pinney of Butley. He says their imported Portuguese oysters will rival the Colchester natives.

At a broiler factory, chickens make their way round the production line. The company is planning to improve its production methods so chickens will be even cheaper, says a company spokesman.

The huge site of the first Sizewell power station is full of activity as building, which had begun the previous year, goes on.

Documentary in Anglia’s ‘Here and Now’ series about the process of growing and harvesting peas in Suffolk and then picked over, packed and frozen at the Birds Eye factory in Lowestoft.

A misty day in Lowestoft. Local people are asked whether it’s right that the busy fish market on the quayside should no longer be open to the public.

A look at the processes involved in making lawnmowers, from pouring molten iron into moulds to the finished Suffolk Punch mowers being fitted together at the company’s foundry in Stowmarket.