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Record 14465 – 14484 of 15384 news stories found.
 
 

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Wednesday
11/3/1981
Programme Details 8 Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to Reg Gifford, who took over the ruined Old Rothay Hotel in Grasmere and will shortly re-open it as the Wordsworth Hotel. Sepmag. BBC Stock/Higginson. 3 mins 40 secs
Friday
13/3/1981
Programme Details 8 Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Pete Foster, works convenor, about the plans by workers of Morganite Ceramic Fibres to go on a shorter working week with less pay so that redundancies in the firm could be avoided. Commag/Sepmag. Higginson. 2 mins 57 secs
Wednesday
18/3/1981
Programme Details 8 Richard Duckenfield, snf, talking to Harold Thomas the Chairman of Tranmere Rovers F.C. about the possibility that they may have to close down. Sepmag/Commag. Higginson. 3 mins 25 secs
Thursday
19/3/1981
Programme Details 8 Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on the announcement of a sharp fall in profits by the LDP and Echo group. Sepmag. Ward. 1 mins 06 secs
Monday
23/3/1981
Programme Details 8 Debi Davies, snf, talking to Douglas Andrew, the Sales Director of Warmshield Aluminium, who manufacture a new type of double glazing. Sepmag. Park. 2 mins 50 secs
Friday
3/4/1981
Programme Details 8 Film of badgers on the Wirral. Mute. BBC Stock. (Stu oov) 0 mins 30 secs
Wednesday
8/4/1981
Programme Details 8 Malcolm Balen, snf, talking to Terry Mears of the Baptist Church in Nantwich, who are having trouble selling their organ. Sepmag. Park. 1 mins 48 secs
Friday
1/5/1981
Programme Details 8 Malcolm Balen, snf, reporting on an annual new export - test tube calves for Hungary using Cheshire dairy cows. Mute. Ward. 0 mins 59 secs
Tuesday
26/5/1981
Programme Details 8 Martin Henfield, snf, talking to welder sculptor John McDonald, whose firm have built him a studio in the factory. Sepmag. Stephens. 3 mins 40 secs
Thursday
4/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Debi Davies, snf, talking to Dave Massey of the Colliery Narrow Boat Company who have designed a battery-powered boat. Commag/Sepmag. Park. 3 mins 10 secs
Friday
5/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Malcolm Balen, snf, reporting on the Golden Jubilee of Bolton nursery schools. He spoke to Dorothy Fawell, nursery school inspector, Councillor David Dingwall, Chairman of the Education Committee and Fred Farrington, Headmaster. Commag. Stephens/BBC Stock. 3 mins 00 secs
Monday
8/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Debi Davies, snf, reporting on the Lancashire tug of war championships held in Manchester at the weekend. She spoke to Billy Riley, coach for the Wagon and Horses pub team and Kevin Riley, member of the team and another brother Shaun - also a member of the team. Commag. Higginson. 3 mins 45 secs
Tuesday
9/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Martin Henfield, snf, talking to Peter Taylor, headmaster of a nursery school held in a double decker bus which tours the more remote areas of the Cheshire countryside. 3 mins 09 secs
Thursday
11/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Alistair Macdonald, snf, talking to John Ansteen, a museum curator, about the collection of vicking swords at the Museum of Lakeland Life and Industry in Kendal. Sepmag. Higginson. 6 mins 08 secs
Monday
22/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Film of the prizes won by the Manchester University concrete canoe. Mute. Park. 0 mins 32 secs
Wednesday
24/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Malcolm Balen, snf, reporting from the Cheshire Show at Tatton Park. He spoke to judge, John Gillespie, the Treasurer of the Cheshire Agricultural Society, Roy Ramsbottom, and Edith England and Margaret Fair of the Womens Institute, Sepmag. Higginson. 3 mins 07 secs
Thursday
25/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Alistair Macdonald, snf, reporting from the 90th birthday celebrations of the Windermere pleasure steamer ‘Tern”. He spoke to the captain Alan Hudson and to Glyn Morgan of Sealink. Sepmag. Ward. 3 mins 23 secs
Friday
26/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Debi Davies, snf, talking to Charles Owen of the GMC about the problems they had in replacing a small bridge over a stream in the Ashworth Valley. Commag/Sepmag. Stephens. 2 mins 48 secs
Tuesday
30/6/1981
Programme Details 8 Malcolm Balen, snf, talking to Pam Bright, Headminister of Stock Lane Nursery School about the “mock wedding” between two of her class to celebrate the Royal Wedding. Sepmag. Stephens. 2 mins 28 secs
Thursday
23/7/1981
Programme Details 8 Film of the Chester Transport exhibition on display in the Chester Heritage Centre. Mute. Ward. (John oov) 0 mins 25 secs
 
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