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Record 14385 – 14404 of 15384 news stories found.
Date |
Film Item Number |
Description |
Duration |
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| Thursday 7/9/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | Alistair Macdonald snf reporting on the flower festival at Rainford near St Helens. He spoke to the festival Designer Noreen Richards. sepmag/commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 36 secs | |
| Friday 1/9/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | A report on a new form of model racing with cars, which are remote controlled. The biggest meeting in the North takes place this weekwnd in St Annes, where 12 teams have entered three cars each in a three hour race. We spoke to the meeting organiser Mike Booth. | 4 mins 04 secs | |
| Wednesday 30/8/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | GVs shoe factories. BBC stock. mute. (Nick oov) | 0 mins 24 secs | |
| Friday 1/12/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | David Davies, snf, reporting from Chester College, where three members of the All Blacks rugby team were being put through their paces in the Physical Performance Laboratory He spoke to the Head of PE, Ted Charlesworth, and the New Zealand physiotherapist, Brian MacKenzie. Commag. Park. | 3 mins 00 secs | |
| Thursday 30/11/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | Film of how the RAF cane to the rescue of a Peregrine Falcon chick stolen from it’s nest. mute. Loaned by the RSPB. (Stu oov) | 0 mins 32 secs | |
| Wednesday 15/11/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | Film of Steve Ireland talking to Wigan’s Housing Chairman, Clr. Sam Little, about why the Kenyan Asian Family were offered a home in Wigan. He also talks to local people about their reservations on how the affair was settled. Commag/Mute. Steve oov. Park. | 3 mins 27 secs | |
| Thursday 2/11/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting from Southport on evidence that the famous iron canopies along Lord Street are rapidly deteriorating. He spoke to Harry Seddon, the Planning Officer, and Michael King, the Conservation Officer. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 30 secs | |
| Friday 6/10/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | Anglo-American exhibition at Norbury Church, Hazel Grove, which includes the portrait of the first Governor of North Carolina - Edward Hyde of Norbury Hall. Park. Mute. (John oov) | 0 mins 22 secs | |
| Tuesday 26/9/1978 | Programme Details | 8 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Rudi Diamant, a lecturer at Salford University, who has just had a book published exploring all the latest methods of home insulation and how to avoid spending a fortune on commercial systems. He showed us his own unique home-made form of double-glazing. Park. Sepmag. (Alistair oov) | 2 mins 54 secs | |
| Friday 2/11/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Film of Westfield Point, near Barrow, the proposed site for the Morecambe Bay Gasfield Terminal. BBC Stock. (Fel oov) | 1 mins 11 secs | |
| Friday 16/11/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reports on a hospital arts project that’s bringing clowns to wards to cheer up the patients. He visited the MRI’s children’s ward to see Christine Watson and Liz Faunce doing their clown routine for the children, and speaks to patients and staff, including art lecturer, Peter Senior. Commag. Higginson. | 3 mins 00 secs | |
| Wednesday 21/11/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Jim Hancock, snf, reporting on a continuing dispute at Manchester’s Direct Works Department, which is affecting Council repairs. He looked at the case of a block of high rise flats in Salford, where both lifts are out of action and spoke to two of the residents, Mary Jackson. Sepmag. Park. | 2 mins 27 secs | |
| Thursday 29/11/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | GVs of Manchester Airport, and or Macdonald Douglas airplanes. Commag. BBC Stock/Gratis. (Nick oov) | 0 mins 30 secs | |
| Friday 14/12/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on the work of the Liverpool-based charity organisation ‘Survive’, which supplies survival equipment to third world countries. He spoke to the Joint Founders, Margaret Price and Sean O’Leary. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson/Glancy | 3 mins 08 secs | |
| Friday 19/10/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Richard Duckenfield, snf talking to the Chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, Sir Arthur Peterson who has been appointed Chairman of the co-ordinating committee planning the re-settlement of the Vietnamese boat people. sepmag. Higginson. | 1 mins 49 secs | |
| Monday 1/10/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Alistair Macdonald, snf, reports on a two-man brewery in Buxton, making Winkle’s Saxon Cross bitter. He spoke to Clive Winkle and Trevor Anderson at their brewery about their enterprise. Sepmag. Selwood. | 4 mins 31 secs | |
| Thursday 6/9/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Film of Tatton Old Hall. Mute. Park. (David oov) | 0 mins 10 secs | |
| Tuesday 21/8/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Film of a news conference to announce the retirement of Colin Bell. Mute. Park. (Chris oov) | 0 mins 15 secs | |
| Friday 27/7/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Jim Hancock, snf, talking to David and Lesley Hamm, who turned a ruined farmhouse on the moors above Rochdale into a luxury home and which Lancashire County Council want to turn back into a ruin. Commag. Stephens. | 3 mins 08 secs | |
| Wednesday 20/6/1979 | Programme Details | 8 | Nick Clarke, snf, talking to Velson Horie, the Keeper of Conservation at the Manchester Museum about a special packaging developed by a Merseyside firm to protect the Egyptian Mummies at the Museum. Sepmag. Park/Ward. | 3 mins 04 secs | |
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