Alfred Perks , Jack-of-all-trades
Alfred Perks, farmer and wheel-wright, has been kept so busy by his neighbours in Shropshire that in 30 years he has never been away from his workshop for more than two days at a time. He mends their carts, barns and water-wheels, repairs the jumps on the racecourse, refits the pews in the chapel, looks after the church clock and dispatches the dead in coffins wrought by his own fastidious hand. Narrator Deryck Guyler
Film editor PETER GIBBS
Written and produced by DON HAWORTH