An older video that I’ve got onto u-tube. I think the message is hope. There are some pretty heavy guys here some of whom baby sat my kids after a while.
Please be kind with the ageing comments.
And I will never forget the guy who was later to be Prime Minister who told these workers that under a Labour government they would get real jobs and there would not be any need for Work Trusts. Yes he said this in the early 1980s.
Mark Derby who made the video went on to do great things.
They had type writers back then?
Who was that young man? That was a great story, all pulling together and gaining skills and their sense of belonging. 
Thanks, Trev, for resurrecting and putting up that ancient bit of work we once did together.
I’ll never forget how bone-chillingly cold it was down by the river first thing on a mid-winter’s morning. But those guys really threw themselves into the work, and managed to be friendly to a skinny Pakeha from the city at the same time.
I’m surprised how tolerable the whole thing looks and sounds all these years later, given that it was shot on horrible pre-digital tape, in a crappy domestic format, and made for no budget at all. I’d completely forgotten about it but the whole experience came rushing back when I played the tape, and the memories were very pleasant ones.
Keep up the good work on behalf of people for whom being trusted and respected is the hardest job of all.
Mark Derby
Lots of things happened at Cherry Grove
It was interesting times Sherylyn – but not as much for me as others down there.