Where Have All the Tradesmen Gone

In 1945 a young lad enters the gates of the Carriage & Wagon Works at Derby to start his apprenticeship building and repairing railway stock, little knowing it would be some 43 years before he would pack up his tools and leave the gates for the last time. Join him on his journey through his working life and meet the wonderfully skilled tradesmen who worked alongside him. Take a glimpse of a time when the Carriage & Wagon Works was a major employer and when jobs really were 'for life'.