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Record 12025 – 12044 of 15384 news stories found.
Date |
Film Item Number |
Description |
Duration |
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| Tuesday 8/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on the 25th anniversary of Oulton Park in Cheshire. He spoke to Rex Foster, who turned the dream of motor racing at Oulton into reality. Park. Sepmag. (Alistair oov) | 5 mins 11 secs | |
| Friday 11/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to John Barlow, Captain of the Cheshire Polo Team. Two teams from the county are taking part in the National Eight Goal Championships at Tarporley, and the finals are on Sunday. Higginson. Commag / Sepmag. | 3 mins 58 secs | |
| Wednesday 16/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on the new campaign started by parents who say their children are handicapped because of hormone pregnancy tests. The film shows 9-year old Mark Chapman who was born with serious brain damage - which his mother is convinced was due to a hormone tablet. Stephens. Commag. (Ali oov) | 0 mins 42 secs | |
| Friday 18/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Nick Clarke snf talking to Clive Jenkins, Secretary of ASTMS about the cause of Britains industrial problems, and how they could be solved. Mr Jenkins was visiting Skelmersdale, and Dunlops in particular. Higginson. Commag. Nick oov) | 4 mins 00 secs | |
| Monday 21/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Jack Detchon, Leisure and Recreation Officer for Rossendale Borough Council, and Ed Richards, manager of the Jaguars Ski Team - a group of teenagers who are training on the Artificial Ski Slope on a special summer school run by Rossendale Borough Council. Park. Sepmag. | 4 mins 15 secs | |
| Tuesday 22/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Another in our series of A Day in the Life. This week it’s a clergyman - Harry Callaghan - who’s also a radio ham, singer, song writer and broadcaster and a former missionary in South America. Sepmag. Higginson. | 6 mins 25 secs | |
| Wednesday 23/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Felicity Goodey snf talking to Sir John Nethven of the CBI about unemployment in the region. sepmag. Park. | 4 mins 17 secs | |
| Thursday 7/9/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | David Davies snf reporting from a news conference at Stretford Sports Centre to discuss how the £150 000 grant from the sports council will be used to provide community sports facilities. He spoke to Howard McCann from Preston North End FC and Mick Aitken of the Sports Council. Sepmag/commag. Park. | 3 mins 13 secs | |
| Tuesday 5/9/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting on the first electric vehicles conference to be held in the North West, which took place in Manchester today. He spoke to Don Grible and Ron barker of the Electric Vehicle Association. Commag. Park. | 3 mins 51 secs | |
| Monday 4/9/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Film of electronics firms in the North West. Commag. BBC Stock. (David oov) | 0 mins 40 secs | |
| Friday 1/9/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Further film of Bernad Legace at the Organ Festival. Sepmag. Stephens. | 0 mins 18 secs | |
| Thursday 31/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Dr Janet Kear, curator of the wildfowl trust at Martin Mere, talking about some of the animals that also appear in the sanctuary - voles rabbits and ferrets among them. We also featured Khan - Dr Kear’s poodle. Stephens. sepmag. | 4 mins 46 secs | |
| Wednesday 30/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Richard Duckenfield snf talking to Mrs Emma Cowl, who at 93 is running an old folks home. Higginson. sepmag. | 3 mins 12 secs | |
| Tuesday 29/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Frank Mellor talking to John Blundell, Lancashire Museums Officer, and Patsy Janes, about the removal of an ornate plaster ceilingfrom Burn Hall, between Thornton Cleveleys and Fleetwood, to be installed and restored in the Judge’s House in Lancaster. It measures 16’ by 12 and a half’ and is 350 years old. Higginson. sepmag. | 3 mins 47 secs | |
| Friday 25/8/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Alistair Macdonald snf talking to Mrs Margaret Melrose, Cheshire’s social services chairman, about a new scheme for looking after youngsters who’d been in trouble by putting them with a family rather than into a council home or centre. Ward. sepmag | 4 mins 56 secs | |
| Monday 11/9/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Film of the Village Fair at Whitworth, near Rochdale, an old Lancashire tradition which dates back to 1251. It included a pottery-making demonstration, how to make walling sticks and a demonstration of the workings of an old-fashioned printing press, and the ancient rush-bearing procession. Sepmag. Stephens. | 4 mins 02 secs | |
| Wednesday 20/12/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Alistair Madonald, snf, on a new scheme to help teach maths at Brookway Comprehensive School in Manchester. It’s with the help of police radar cars that the pupils have been able to work practical application of maths. He spoke to student teacher Sue Sammon - who’s idea it was, and to the community contact officer Don Brown. Sepmag. Park. | 4 mins 15 secs | |
| Thursday 14/12/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Steve Ireland, snf, on the fight to svae Stockport’s Victorian Market Hall. He spoke to Councillor Vin Burgen, one of the preservationists who say it should stay. Commag. Park. | 3 mins 29 secs | |
| Friday 8/12/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Steve Ireland, snf, talking to Mrs Marie Stockbridge of Hale in Cheshire, who, at 78, is Assistant Secretary of the Cheshire League. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson. | 4 mins 37 secs | |
| Wednesday 6/12/1978 | Programme Details | 6 | Alistair Macdonald snf reporting on the sale of the Crown Inn at Tiverton - reputed to be Cheshire’s oldest pub. Commag. Park. | 4 mins 12 secs | |
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