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Record 10145 – 10164 of 15384 news stories found.
Date |
Film Item Number |
Description |
Duration |
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| Wednesday 19/7/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Stuart Hall naming the new elephant, Mottie, at Chester Zoo. Park Sepmag | 2 mins 00 secs | |
| Friday 21/7/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | GVs baby elephant - named Mottie - at Chester Zoo - which has died in his sleep. Experts from Liverpool University will investigate. BBC Stock. Mute. (John oov) | 0 mins 15 secs | |
| Monday 24/7/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, visiting Ness Gardens in Wirral, which belongs to Liverpool University. The gardens have highly inventive landscaping in stone - and every stone has its own story. Higginson. Commag. | 3 mins 03 secs | |
| Thursday 27/7/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to 28-year-old Lesley Cowcill from Sandbach in Cheshire, who is the only North West finalist in the Ford’s Lady Rally Driver Competition. She also spoke to Lesley’s husband Eric, who is also a rally competitor. Park. Sepmag. | 4 mins 03 secs | |
| Friday 28/7/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | GVs work beginning on a derelict site around Foregate Street in Chester. Also views of a model of the shopping development precinct which is to be built on the site - to include a tiny canalside village for pensioners and the disabled, two super stores, a shopping arcade and a two-storey car park. Park. Mute. (John oov) | 0 mins 23 secs | |
| Monday 31/7/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | No. 8 in our series of Weekend Events: Olympic Yachting. Peter Diamond, Cheif Sailing Instructor at Storrs Hall on Windermere talking about the scheme to help fifteen boys and five girls with Olympic or International potential to learn all about the finer arts of sailing. Andrew Farris from Bolton; Sean Parry, from Worsley and Debbie Lunt from St Helens were among the young people being helped to get the most out of their talents. Stephens. Sepmag. | 3 mins 54 secs | |
| Tuesday 1/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Nick Clarke, snf, talking to Ray Maddock - who owns an acre of land in Macclesfield by the Cheshire Canal, and is spending his time and money building a dream house. When finished, Ray hopes it will be as fully self-sufficient as possible - using windmills, sunshine, solar panels, using rainwater or re-cycled water only, and household effluent, plus that provided by animals will be converted to gas for cooking. He held an open day at Eco Lodge to attract the attention of the authorities and the Government, and also that of sympathetic builders merchants. | 4 mins 19 secs | |
| Thursday 3/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Councillor Alan Fearn, of Tameside Council, talking about the fifteen properties of Dingle Terrace in the hamlet of Park Bridge. The council - to save the terrace from demolition - is considering giving the properties to a builder who could renovate the houses. Some of the residents gave their views - they all want to stay in their homes. Ward. Sepmag. | 3 mins 52 secs | |
| Tuesday 8/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Customer Relations Officer for Express Dairies, Frank Samuel, about the mystery of the missing milk bottles. He reckons they vanish at the rate of 146,000 a week in Cheshire’s four major dairies, and many seem to vanish across the border into Wales! Higginson. Commag. (Richard oov) | 3 mins 19 secs | |
| Friday 11/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | GVs excavations at Norton Priory near Runcorn. BBC Stock. Mute. (David oov) | 0 mins 16 secs | |
| Thursday 10/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | A new sheltered housing unit opened at Underwood Court in Crewe. Ward. Mute. (John oov) | 0 mins 10 secs | |
| Tuesday 15/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Derbyshire Museum staff who are taking a mobile exhibition of relics of the past to remote villages and towns. Alistair caught up with them in Buxton - and talked to the staff and visitors to the exhibition. Park. Sepmag. | 0 mins 0 secs | |
| Wednesday 16/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Nick Clarke, snf, reporting on the RAC report attacking local authority parking schemes, particularly parking meters. Higginson. Commag. | 2 mins 12 secs | |
| Thursday 17/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Felicity Goodey, snf, at the 49th Southport Flower Show. She was shown round by Kenneth Hulme and Peter Cunnington from the Ness Botanical Gardens in Wirral, and they spoke to Show Secretary John Drittler and Strafford Donning, orchid expert. Ward. Commag. (Felicity oov) | 5 mins 04 secs | |
| Friday 18/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Richard Duckenfield snf talking to the Manager of Everton, Gordon Lee, and Captain Mike Lyons about their prospects. Higginson. sepmag/ commag. | 2 mins 55 secs | |
| Monday 21/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | No.11 in our Weekend Events - a special residential course with the Cheshire County Youth Orchestra at Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education, where they were preparing for concerts in Winsford and Widnes later this week. Nicholas Smith, one of the Orchestra’s guest conductors talked about their schedule at the college. Stephens. Sepmag. | 4 mins 32 secs | |
| Tuesday 22/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | GVs of Ambleside, which the planners say is very popular with second home buyers. | 0 mins 17 secs | |
| Wednesday 23/8/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Richard Duckenfield snf talking to Superintendent Lawrence Ramsbottom and Councillor John King and other people from Kirkby about their reactions to the series which, it is claimed, provided the basis for Newtown where the series is set. Sepmag. Higginson. | 3 mins 04 secs | |
| Thursday 7/9/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | Film of an Isle of Man ferry. mute. BBC Stock. (John oov) | 0 mins 11 secs | |
| Wednesday 6/9/1978 | Programme Details | 5 | John Wilson of the Leighton Moss Bird Sanctuary at Silverdale in Lancashire, giving us a guided tour ofthe many varieties of butterflies and moths that can be found there. Sepmag. Stephens. | 5 mins 15 secs | |
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