'London Rock' Making Candy Factory (1957) | British Pathé
Do you ever wonder how rock candy is made? Check out how the producers of 'London Rock' candy produced it in 1957 in a candy factory in Wood Green, London.
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(FILM ID:57.18)
Wood Green, London.
An object which looks like a large boiler or distilling barrel appears on screen. A man wheels a trolley with a basin on and places it under the strange barrel. He opens a tap at the bottom and a glue-like liquid starts pouring into the basin. After the basin is filled, he closes the tap and wheels the basin next to a long working table. He pours the liquid across the table helped by another man.
This is a sweet factory in Wood Green where London Rock is made. Glue-like liquid is toffee of which the London Rock is made - a mixture of glucose and cane sugar boiled in the strange barrel at 260 degrees Fahrenheit.
A man pours a colouring into the toffee and starts mixing it slowly. C/U shot of the man's hand mixing colour into toffee. M/S of the two men making letters. The man wearing glasses is Mr Jerry Toll who has made the rock for 38 years. He and another man (young, possibly apprentice) are mixing strips of red and white toffee into rolls, each containing an individual letter. Rolls with individual letters are then placed into a large roll (a huge one) which, when stretched and cut, becomes London rock.
Three men are lifting a huge roll to chain it on one side so they can hang it to stretch. After the roll is stretched, hand rolling takes place. Rolling has to be done very fast since it takes an hour for the toffee mixture to become too hard to handle. Succession of shots showing how huge thick roll is stretched and rolled into thin strips of London Rock. Rock is then measured and cut (with large scissors) into strips seven inches long ready for packaging.
Film ends with a great C/U shot of a pile of circles, each reading 'London Rock'. No wonder they are famous!
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The fact that you see candymakers today using gloves because of the heat makes you respect those mofos back in the day even more, beasts' hands they fear nothing lol
@romainvicta3076
7 ай бұрын
And No leeched Estrogenic microplastics from Plastic gloves into the Sweets either!
@abductedbyfairies
7 ай бұрын
@romainvicta3076 yeah, I'm kinda annoyed by this obsession with gloves. Soap and water is literally what lowered the transmission of every disease. If you're healthy and wash your hands you can't give people anything. Plus, it's the same people who complain about the lack of gloves, ignoring the long ass beards and hair flowing around instead of wearing a cap and keeping well groomed. Goofy aah wannabe hygienists.
@Osigot
2 ай бұрын
@@romainvicta3076 but pieces of sweat, skin and maybe blood (which comes off hands much more easily than microplastic comes off gloves) - very tasty 🙃
@resentfulsoulofthetoilet589
2 ай бұрын
@@Osigot Adds flavour
@BBPalmer420
2 ай бұрын
@@OsigotI love a lil flesh in my rock
I am equally amazed by the quality of the narration.
@francissantiago4110
Жыл бұрын
Bare hands, no gloves
@edwardcamp3376
3 ай бұрын
Old Received Pronunciation was smooth as buttah!
@victorarmijo8434
2 ай бұрын
He's been making ROCK for 38 years!! Quite they experience.
Amazing doesn’t even sound like a real word anymore after looking at these comments.
@coloradostrong
10 ай бұрын
Amazing you would say that.
Back in the day it was totally normal to be an apprentice for six years to be a candy maker. I wish I lived when times were so simple
@Liusila
Ай бұрын
No upwards mobility options though - that same job you started as a teenager you have for life.
that first machine looks straight out of wallace and gromit
I know you can still see this amazing work in Yarmouth, UK.
@ariangh815
2 ай бұрын
Nice 👍👍👍
this is amazing. Many people think that factory work is low skilled work which justifies low oay. Yet this shows that some factory work requires a more wider skillset than some office jobs. Having to do an apprenticeship which lasts six years which is more longer than a university degree
it's amazing
I bet those guys have muscles like piano wires 😲
@Liusila
Ай бұрын
Why?
It’s amazing
i have tried searching for this candy. i only knew what my foster welsh gma called it.ive google search for it by that name.never found it. now i know what the proper name for it is called and i will finf it. tyvm much for this info
@sebeckley
3 ай бұрын
The umbrella term is picture candy.
It's amazing
Those old copper boilers and bowls would cost a fortune now…..perhaps stainless steel wasn’t available back then.
@sarahlouise7163
2 ай бұрын
copper is preferred as it allows for a more even temperature, apparently
@sweypheonix
2 ай бұрын
Commercial candy makers generally still use copper. I have seen brittle makers still using what looks like the same pot for 40 years
Never ceases to impress me. Amaze even.
İt's amazing.
Absolutely amazing. I would love some of this rock from 1957. It looks delicious.😄♥️😄
@oldhippie81
Жыл бұрын
I have some Blackpool Rock from the 1970;s. Hi. from Tasmania Australia.
@tedoneilclark4710
Жыл бұрын
@@oldhippie81 Have you tried eating it 🤣🤣🤣
@oldhippie81
Жыл бұрын
@@tedoneilclark4710 Still looks goodenough to eat🙂
@tedoneilclark4710
Жыл бұрын
@@oldhippie81 let me know 😀
Amazing it is
That sugar syrup is a huge pain to clean when it hardens, it becomes like concrete.
@rusipotam
9 ай бұрын
Just use hot water
it’s amazing
Absolutely amazing!
Losing most of my teeth in my early teens was mostly down to the wonderful world of Rock, But everything has to come to an end at some point, But it was worth it, These rock makers are so skilled in the art of rock making, they are probably long dead by now, But we wont forget you guys. Rock on !
@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn
4 ай бұрын
What does it taste like?
@robharding5345
4 ай бұрын
It depends on what flavour you prefer, from mint, to liquorice.and many more to boot.@@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn
@DefendTheStar
2 ай бұрын
@@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn sweet it was equal parts fructose and cane sugar
The heat that’s gotta be coming off those and no gloves those guys are crazy skilled
Anyone else here because if the morning brew?
@101Volts
Жыл бұрын
I'm here because of the channel this is uploaded from; British Pathe.
WHY EVERYONE IS SAYING "its amazing"
@theemeraldomed6856
2 жыл бұрын
it’s amazing
@NoK1dding
Жыл бұрын
They made the words LONDON ROCK come out legibly and placed perfectly at such a large scale working with giant ropes of colored sugar. Wow!
@nunyabiznes33
Жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@PlutoTheSynth
3 ай бұрын
it is amazing
Thanks KZread algorithm, now I know how rock’s made… still unclear on the why though.
@cynthiaprentice8420
Жыл бұрын
Silly, it is made on purpose just to rot your teeth whilst enjoying the process!!
@sarahlouise7163
2 ай бұрын
you are actually asking why is rock made?
So relaxing watching your channel
Love the little hats the candy makers wear. When I eat candy I will pretend they made it.
Amazing work!
To the person who was asking about gloves….. nobody had gloves for very much indeed, including hospitals! As a Student Nurse we had to do everything with bare hands, including the very worst imaginable things! But it made sure that you learned how to scrub up properly!!
@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn
4 ай бұрын
My dermatologist never uses gloves. He's world class also.
It’s amazing 🍬
It's amazing!
These make me so hungry lol.
I'm amazed
Very interesting!
I bet candy tasted so much better back then
A lot work doing it by hand.
That looks so amazing!
The art of making such ornate candy is impressive. The narrator is a meme producer, though.
Absolutely amazing. And quite incredible today.
Anyone know the background orchestra song is?
It's amazing! Just joining the crowd!
It's AMAZING!
I grew up in Wood Green
Impressive!
@justinbetland9792
2 жыл бұрын
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Rock on!!!
I live in Wood Green, London - they recently replaced the factory with blocks of flats.
@georgezee5173
2 ай бұрын
I live in Wood Green too and this video just popped up in my feed. Where was that factory? Was it next to the chocolate factory?
@sammyboyjnr5520
Ай бұрын
@georgezee5173 Yes that's right
@georgezee5173
Ай бұрын
@@sammyboyjnr5520 thank you!
In the former US and UK, manufacturing is still affecting the world.
Shutup It's amazing
Is it amazing? Yes, it is🍭
Now you just get a rock thrown at you in Wood Green
Delicious
Honest fire
My god, the lettering!
Holy crap, that's a lot of sugar... And if it were Lofty Pursuits making it, that's gonna be a very big batch of Unicorn Droppings.
@johnnyace1300
10 ай бұрын
yes!
Quite a feat.
Wonderful and amazing candy, right about enough to get 100 people diabities
@ncs8730
Жыл бұрын
You're not expected to eat a pile of those.
No gloves, damn they used to be tough back then. I feel like every generation is getting a little softer...
💗🍬
it's amazong
Все работают без перчаток. Сейчас такое не возможно, а тогда все проще было.
wonder how many arm hairs fall into this candy🤔
Oh well, we almost saw how they make the letters…
💯
Where are they now ? I want to meet them 😊
Was there already videos with so much quality and colored in 1957? Or it's remastered.
@IcheeCOTC
2 ай бұрын
video on film. Film (it's color variant was invented in about 1900) is much higher resolution than the average LCD or OLED monitor or even camera of the modern day, but it needs to go through development before it can be used. Audio may also be recorded on the unused portion of the same film for an audio-visual recording, or recorded on something else for separate audio and video recordings. it's also entirely possible that the video is indeed remastered, but given that many videos from this channel have been referred to as Reels, I believe that that is the less likely scenario, if only by a very small amount.
I thought that us was the only strange country to use Fahrenheit-degrees.But the voiceover man clearly speaks uk-english.And England are well known to use Celsius-centigrades and Miles&inch.......
@ianb9028
11 ай бұрын
This was the 1950’s. The system of pounds, hundredweight, pints, quarts, inches, foot, yard, rods and roods etc is collectively known as "imperial" measurements. The British at the time did not even use metric money (unlike the US) they used farthings, pounds, shillings and pence - 12 pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to a pound, 5 shillings was a crown. They also had something called a guinea which I think was 1 pound 1 shilling but could be very wrong about that.
😳😳😳wooooo
I hade Margate rock and it’s tasty
Now the stretching is done by a machine 😮
....what weight?
@DavidJCane
2 ай бұрын
The measure is a "hundredweight" (abbreviation "cwt"), so this was 2 cwt equal to 224 lbs or 101.6 kg.
ah yes, british crack rocks. indeed
No protection 😃 if he got burn 0:17
what's a "weight"?
@DavidJCane
2 ай бұрын
The measure is a "hundredweight" (abbreviation "cwt"), so this was 2 cwt equal to 224 lbs or 101.6 kg.
Where the rock was made😨
😗🤤candyyy
A lot of DNA in that candy 😝
Blackpool rock did for my teeth!! 😂
三座木橋！？
3:02 he's goddamn cute, i wonder how is he now
@PlutoTheSynth
3 ай бұрын
truee :3
@Blackluck9647
3 ай бұрын
@@PlutoTheSynth maybe he is now an elderly grandad or sad thing hopefully not maybe long gone, but i am certain of one thing he is no longer a cute boy
@DavidJCane
2 ай бұрын
Michael Young would probably have left school at 14. If he had served the full six-year apprenticeship mentioned he would have been around 20 in 1957. So if he is still around today he will be around 87 years old.
Asbestos hands!
The only thing makes me interested in this is the style of the 50s
It’s not toffee
Used to be able to earn a living wage working at places like this. Didn't have to compete with people from all over the world for jobs in your own country, let alone city.
@laerwen
Жыл бұрын
Wages need to go up with the cost of living. Blaming this issue on immigrants is what the fascists want you to do.
@coloradostrong
10 ай бұрын
Illegal Invaders, not "migrants". And you can thank the _small hats_ for their usury that everyone calls "inflation". @@laerwen
@DonnellOkafor-pd7yn
4 ай бұрын
@@laerwenit's the truth though
No gloves, I can see theres a hair in that candy
OHS nightmare....
Do you think they had an inkling of a suspicion their children would be replaced by pakistanis?
It’s amazing, the art of rolling rock by hand is dead now. Shame, these people used to be able to make a living doing regular jobs and now you need to sell your soul to barely survive.. that’s if you can even get a job.
Either this is AI or that man lost a finger
Rock is foul. 🤢
That why people have lost all these teeth 😅
Ah well who cares about art anyway
It's not amazing.
@justinbetland9792
2 жыл бұрын
?
@someoneelse.2252
2 жыл бұрын
@@justinbetland9792 : I was making fun of all the "it's amazing' crowd. I honestly enjoyed watching craftsmen at work.
@ilovegot7754
2 жыл бұрын
Lol these bots are ridiculous they ruin the comments
@101Volts
Жыл бұрын
@@ilovegot7754 I saw 13 or more comments saying the same exact "it's amazing" thing, and all were upvoted over 400 times. Yeah, that only seems _normal_ of bots.
It's not amazing
Disgusting
*Ew!* No gloves! Gross!
I used to live on Wood green😍🙈
@sammyboyjnr5520
Ай бұрын
This is from when Wood Green still had English people
Willy wonka-ess
it's amazing
It’s amazing
It's amazing