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| [PHYSICAL EXERCISES, MOTORCYCLE DISPLAY TEAM AND VINTAGE FIRE ENGINES] | |||
| Date: 1943 Film Number: 6200 | |||
| Scenes in Avenham Park, Preston, during Safety Week, July 1943. A demonstration of physical exercise and gymnastics is followed by a motorcycle display team doing various stunts. Members of the National Fire Service are seen demonstrating vintage and modern firefighting equipment. | |||
| SAFETY WEEK 10-17 JULY 1943 | |||
| Date: 1943 Film Number: 6202 | |||
| Scenes from Preston's Safety Week, organised by the Accident Prevention Committee. Posters and bus adverts are seen on the streets of Preston and the Transport Minister visits the Lancashire Constabulary's skid pan at Hutton. In Avenham Park there is a march past and dancing display by local children, followed by demonstrations of different causes of road accidents including stepping off a moving bus and playing in the road. Speeches are made by the Mayor and the Minister and the film ends with the Royal Corps of Signals give a demonstration of their work, including the use of pigeons. | |||
| COTTON BLOSSOMS | |||
| Date: 1943 Film Number: 6033 | |||
| Film about the production of cotton and fabric in Bury and Lancashire during World War II. Includes a brief history of the origins of the industry in Lancashire; cotton being grown, harvested and baled in the USA; and cotton arriving, being sorted, graded and then transported to Bury by rail. Mill processes - including carding, mule and ring spinning, dying and weaving - are all shown in detail, and there are views of the kitchens, boiler room and maintenance department. A lunchtime concert is held in the staff canteen, and the nursery is also seen. An explanation of how waste cotton can be turned into cloth is followed by views of office and clerical staff, and different kinds of cotton products - both war and peacetime - are seen. The film ends with a look to the future and introduces some new innovations, such as modern weaving sheds, automatic looms, a Works Council, first-aid provision and new training methods for recruits. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| 28TH LANCS B. N. HOME GUARD. OFFICERS CAMP BARLEY. 5/6TH JUNE 1943 | |||
| Date: 1943/55 Film Number: 1264 | |||
| 28th Lancs B.N. Home Guard at Officers training camp at Barley on the 5/6th June 1943. Includes shots of men being trained in defence and camouflage techniques. Also includes the Royal visit to Malvern Mill in Nelson on 14th April 1955. | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 132 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 546 | |||
| A group of servicemen send individual messages home to their families and friends in Manchester, from a jungle in Burma. They end by singing together - 'She's a lassie from Lancashire'. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 183 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 621 | |||
| Members of the RAF stand in the goal mouth of a football pitch, and send messages home. Each man introduces the next. At the end, they march towards the camera, waving, as the narrator mentions their home towns of Preston, Blackburn, Rochdale, Wigan and Bolton. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 199 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 622 | |||
| Men from the Black East African Regiment moving timber in camp area. Messages home - the men, mainly from Stockport and Blackburn, pass on their messages home whilst playing badminton and map reading. Ends with an African tribal dance performed by the East African troops. | |||
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| MORECAMBE 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 811 | |||
| A look at the various events taking place in Morecambe on 11th September 1944 - the RAF Swimming Gala; a demonstration of self inflating dinghies; and a water polo match between teams from Lancashire and Cheshire - prizes are presented. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| PRESTON & DISTRICT "SALUTE THE SOLDIER" WEEK, MAY 13TH-20TH 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 1199 | |||
| Events from Preston and District's "Salute the Soldier Week," 13-20 May 1944 to raise funds for the war effort. Events shown include military processions, an exhibition relating to the North Lancashire Regiment, a charity cricket match between Fulwood and Broughton Cricket Club and an Army XI and a bowls match. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 149 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 5678 | |||
| A group of servicemen from Manchester, Salford, Todmorden and Warrington are filmed together in a jungle clearing in Burma. Each man takes a turn to step forward to the camera to send a personal message home to his loved ones before they all sign off with a short group rendition of “We’ll Meet Again”. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 178 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 5680 | |||
| Servicemen (and one woman) from the Royal Navy send personal messages to their loved ones back in Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Mossley and Wilmslow from a coastal location in Colombo, Ceylon. The film ends with the ‘boys and girls of the Royal Navy’ walking quietly away, smiling at the camera, with the sea in the background. | |||
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| [SAVINGS WEEK AND OTHER WARTIME SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5416 | |||
| Posters for a local war savings campaign, followed by a parade and the arrival of 300 evacuees at Wilmslow station in July 1944. Savings week helpers board a train for the Buckingham Palace Garden Party and the Junior Service Corps and Church Lads Brigade compete at a sports day. A torchlit event takes place to change the savings target in October 1945 outside the Rex cinema and teenagers march during a recruitment week for Junior Services. The Air Training Corps, Girls Training Corps and RAF Cadets perform drills and the boy scouts and cubs are seen doing gymnastics. The film ends with cadets being presented with a ceremonial mace in 1945. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| [LEISURE SCENES IN WARTIME] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5417 | |||
| Two men are seen looking at war savings campaign posters and smoking, and people leave a meeting room. There are posters for a Canada v USA baseball match and for the 1943 ceremony to mark Wilmslow's adoption of HMS Winchelsea, followed by scenes from the baseball match at Pownall College, Wilmslow during Merchant Navy Week. People skating on a frozen lake, baby Brenda sitting outside and a parade featuring the Air Training Corps. There is an outdoor gathering for Allies Day with an appearance from Commander Warwick Bracegirdle. The film ends with a football match, after which St Bartholomew's Prize Band play. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| [QUEEN ELIZABETH IN PRESTON] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 6207 | |||
| Queen Elizabeth is seen during a Royal visit to Preston in April 1945 - arriving, being presented to the Mayor and talking with wounded soldiers. June Miller and her sister are seen out and about in the Lake District - walking through woods and standing outside their school, St Anne's in Windermere. | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 166 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5679 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Salford and beyond send personal messages back home to their loved ones by speaking directly to camera on location in India. In the opening sequence a truck, with ‘Hello Manchester’ chalked on the side, pulls up and the first group of servicemen leap out of the back. The film closes with the men coming together under a tree to sing ‘She’s a Lassie from Lancashire’. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 191 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5681 | |||
| Soldiers serving in the Far East send messages back to their loved ones in Manchester and the surrounding area. The film opens in a small clearing where contributors take turns to speak to the camera before introducing the next caller. Further messages are delivered in front of various buildings (the soldiers’ lodgings?) using different set piece techniques. The film ends with the whole group walking quickly towards and past the camera, waving and saying cheerio. | |||
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| NOW WE ARE FIVE | |||
| Date: 1944-7 Film Number: 4399 | |||
| The Wain family's ration books are seen in the hall of their home, and Judith and Kathryn are seen with baby George Peter in the garden. The family go to the opening of Pole Bank Gardens on 26 August 1944, and Judith and Kathryn try different hats on their baby brother. On VE Day, Kathryn, Judith and Peter are seen in the garden with the day's paper and waving Union Jacks. In August 1945, the family go on holiday to St Anne's, where they are seen playing on the beach and at an open-air swimming pool. | |||
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| ROCHDALE VICTORY PARADE, SUNDAY 16TH MAY 1945 | |||
| Date: 1945 Film Number: 221 | |||
| Troops, nurses, civilians etc. march past Rochdale Town Hall on a wet day. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 241 | |||
| Date: *1945 Film Number: 623 | |||
| Malaya, Christmas 1945 - servicemen from Wigan, Cheadle and Gatley gather to send their messages home. They end by singing ' Show me the way to go home'. | |||
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| WARRINGTON GREETS HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI | |||
| Date: *1945 Film Number: 2240 | |||
| King George VI and Queen Elizabeth are seen visiting the people of Warrington on 7th March 1945. School children line the streets and wave flags as the royal cavalcade travels slowly past. The Mayor of Warrington and other civic dignitaries, greet the King and Queen as they get out of the car. The royal party stand on the steps outside the town hall address the crowd. Also features footage of a military parade including shots of a brass band, troops and nurses. | |||
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