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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

812

Title

CHORLEY SUBSCRIPTION BOWLING GREEN JUNE 1942

Producer

Meldale Studios

Date

1942

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

5 mins 00 secs

Description

Bowlers on the Chorley Subscription Bowling Green. First aid training for the Home Guard - a man is stretchered and taken to a waiting ambulance. Windsor Park League Cup winners - the team pass around the cup whilst posing for a photograph. Mayor's procession - includes men and women in uniform, girl guides,boy scouts and policemen; a wreath laying ceremony at the war memorial; a shot of USA link Captain Larry Doyle.
[The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]

 

 



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