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BBC North West Regional News Material 1973-1986: Search Results

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Record 8021 – 8040 of 15384 news stories found.
 
 

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Film Item Number

Description

Duration

 

Friday
17/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of pensioners receiving free bread from the Mothers Pride bakery in Long Lane, Liverpool. Mute. Ward. (John oov) 0 mins 21 secs
Wednesday
15/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of the Vauxhall car plant at Ellesmere Port. Mute. Hallas. 0 mins 28 secs
Tuesday
14/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of Chrysanthemum show in Denton. Mute. Park 0 mins 15 secs
Monday
13/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Richard Duckenfield, snf, reporting on plans to create a railway shrine at Edge Hill station. Commag/Sepmag. Higginson. 3 mins 09 secs
Friday
10/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Richard Duckenfield snf reporting on a young racing driver, Kim Mather, from Haydock who is hoping to break into Formula One racing in the near future. Commag. Higginson. 3 mins 54 secs
Thursday
9/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Steve Ireland reports on the launching of a floating classroom in Blackburn for mentally and physically handicapped children at the Brockhall Hospital. Film of the launching of the canal boat by crane. Steve Ireland talks to Dr. Gordon Bland, Headmaster of the school, about the scheme. Commag. Stephens. 4 mins 10 secs
Wednesday
8/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of Express Dairy in Wythenshawe where there is a dairymen’s strike. Milkmen drive their floats in convoy through city centre. (John oov) Mute. Park. 0 mins 15 secs
Tuesday
7/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Felicity Goodey, snf, reporting on an invention by a firm specialising in diving equipment - Aqualogistics of St Helens - which the makers hope will never have to be used. It’s a hyperbaric lifeboat - a lifeboat with a built-in decompression chamber - and the only one in the world is sitting on a Norwegian oil rig in the North Sea. Sepmag. Ward. 4 mins 33 secs
Monday
6/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of the Manx Line roll-on roll-off ferries. Mute. BBC Stock. (John oov) 0 mins 15 secs
Tuesday
31/10/1978
Programme Details 4 Felicity Goodey, snf, talking to our folklore expert, Ray Rush, about Halloween and the customs involved. They joined the Children of Guilden Sutton in Cheshire in their “soul caking” celebrations. Sepmag/Commag. Park. 5 mins 05 secs
Thursday
2/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of an articulated bus from Sweden being demonstrated for Crosville officials, members of Runcorn Development Corporation and Halton District Council. Mute. Ward. 0 mins 18 secs
Friday
3/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of a meeting of GMC engineers, who’ve been on strike all week. Mute. Park. (John oov). 0 mins 15 secs
Monday
11/12/1978
Programme Details 4 Steve Ireland, snf, talking to Christine Myers, Organising Secretary of the Womens’ Squash Rackets Association, Sue Cogswell, the British Number One, and to Jane Ashton, a semi-finalist in the British Womens National Championships, held at the Carriages Club in Droylsden. Commag. Park. 3 mins 31 secs
Monday
4/12/1978
Programme Details 4 GVs of the Oldham Evening Chronicle offices, affected by the journalists dispute. Mute. Park. (Chris oov). 0 mins 17 secs
Tuesday
19/12/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of Liverpool Airport, to which flights were being diverted because of the fog. Mute. Ward. (Chris oov) 0 mins 15 secs
Wednesday
1/11/1978
Programme Details 4 Th elast of our series on the wildlife of the North West. Dr Janet Keir discusses some of the colourful fungi to be found beneath our feet - particularly the edible ones. sepmag. Stephens. 3 mins 55 secs
Monday
30/10/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of the Manx-line roll-on, roll-off service between Douglas and Heysham. Mute. BBC Stock . (John oov) 0 mins 11 secs
Friday
27/10/1978
Programme Details 4 GVs of Liverpool Airport. Mute. BBC Stock (John oov) 0 mins 16 secs
Thursday
26/10/1978
Programme Details 4 Film of the Manx Line roll-on roll-off service between Douglas and Heysham. Mute. BBC Stock. (John oov) 0 mins 11 secs
Tuesday
24/10/1978
Programme Details 4 Steve Ireland, snf, talking to John Farrimond, author of the book and new TV childrens’ serial “Hills of Heaven”, about his childhood at Amberswood, near Wigan. He’s been writing for 30 years, but earned his major living working down the pit, and then as caretaker at Hindley Grammar School. Park. Sepmag. 2 mins 53 secs
 
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