Record 281 – 300 of 687
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Series Title |
Programme Title |
Year |
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| B486 | [UNKNOWN] | THE SCOUSE SHOW | 1974 | |
| Several film inserts focusing on the comic side of life in Liverpool (includes canned laughter). Includes interviews with several Liverpudlian actors and comedians including Rupert Davies (1916-1976), Ted Ray (1905–1977) and Arthur Askey (1900-1982). Other Liverpudlians recount amusing stories and tell jokes, including bus driver Les Shannon, several taxi More... | ||||
| B11 | COUNTRY CONCERNS / MELLOR'S TRAVELS | STALLIONS / GRASMERE SPORTS | 1974 | |
| B11/1: The three separate sections of this material are named 'Stallions', 'Dairy Farm' and 'Grasmere Sports'. Frank Mellor attends the Arab Horse Society's Northern Show in 1974 where horses are paraded and awarded rossettes and he visits Birkrigg Park Arabian Stud in Ulverston where girls are seen working in the More... | ||||
| B12 | COUNTRY CONCERNS / MELLOR'S TRAVELS | HILL FARMING | 1974 | |
| B12/1: The first part of this material shows Frank Mellor as he visits hill farmer Richard Capstick on his farm in Lunesdale. Capstick speaks about his work and the depressed prices in the meat industry. Includes shots of a sheep auction at Sedbergh, Capstick's wife feeding lambs by bottle and More... | ||||
| B13 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | HERRING FLEET, SLATE QUARRY, BLACKSMITH | 1974 | |
| B13/1: Frank Mellor highlights three traditional ways of life in the North West: slate mining in the Lake District, herring fishing on the Isle of Man and blacksmithing in Lancashire. Mellor visits a slate quarry near the Kirkstone Pass in Cumbria, where he watches slatesman Ted Faulkner splitting blocks of More... | ||||
| B14 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | WINDERMERE, TRACTION ENGINES | 1974 | |
| No transmission print exists for this programme, only trims. Please contact the NWFA More... | ||||
| B15 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | MARKET GARDENER, SHIRE HORSES, YOUNG FARMER | 1974 | |
| B15/1: Frank Mellor visits and interviews a market gardener on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, a farmer who favours shire horses over tractors and a young couple Gus and June Moody with no farming experience who have bought Raven Rock farm near Wycoller in East Lancashire. The market gardener speaks More... | ||||
| B16 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | TATTENHALL, VILLAGES, DENT | 1974 | |
| B16/1: Presenter Frank Mellor visits Dent in the Yorkshire Dales and asks if village life in England still exists. Roland Sanderson of Sanderson's Dairy in Dentdale laments the loss of basic shops and the increase in holiday homes in Dent village. Female workers at a sewing factory that used to More... | ||||
| B78 | NOW LOOK HERE | PIONEERS | 1974 | |
| Incomplete programme celebrating the pioneering spirit of industrialists in the North West. A male presenter is shown at the Bridgewater Canal in Worsley describing the significance of the Duke of Bridgewater and James Brindley's contributions to canal engineering. The same presenter then highlights the significance of Liverpool Road Railway Station More... | ||||
| B323 | [UNKNOWN] | [FOOTBALL: LIVERPOOL THE KOP] | 1974 | |
| Extracts from a programme about Liverpool Football Club's famous stand at Anfield called the 'Spion Kop'. Liverpool fans (or 'Kopites') try to describe the unique atmosphere in the Kop and the lack of trouble there and there are shots of fans' faces in the terraces. A Reverend at Liverpool's Anglican More... | ||||
| B143 | [UNKNOWN] | IS IT WORTH IT? GENERAL VIEWS OF BLACKPOOL, MORECAMBE AND SOUTHPORT | c. 1974/75 | |
| No transmission print exists for this programme, only trims. Please contact the NWFA More... | ||||
| B32 | THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES | BARBARA CASTLE | c. 1975 | |
| Programme in which Barbara Castle - ex-Labour MP for Blackburn, Chairman of the Labour Party and Government Minister - returns to Oxford University where she was a student. Opens with stills of Castle as a youngster interspersed with shots of residential streets in Oxford, Oxford University and gondolas on the River More... | ||||
| B36 | THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES | KEN DODD | c. 1975 | |
| Programme on entertainer Ken Dodd, featuring stills and footage of Dodd throughout his career, accompanied by music. Opens with opening title sequence for the series "The Times of Their Lives". We see footage of Dodd's home town, Knotty Ash, including his old primary school, Knotty Ash Parish Church and Village More... | ||||
| B353 | LOOK NORTH | HOSPITALS DISPUTE | c. 1975 | |
| No transmission print is held for this programme - trims only. Please contact the NWFA More... | ||||
| B26 | THE OTHER MAN'S SHOES | BILL ROLLINSON | 1975 | |
| Programme one in the series. Follows Bill Rollinson - author, Liverpool University lecturer and organiser of adult education in Lancashire and Cumbria - as he discusses his home town of Barrow with presenter Frank Mellor. Opens with aerial shots of Liverpool and Barrow. Rollinson talks of Barrow's prosperous past - when it had More... | ||||
| B27 | THE OTHER MAN'S SHOES | PARSON'S PATCH | 1975 | |
| Programme two in the series. Follows John Priestly, Parson of the village of Higham near Burnley, performing his parish duties and moving house. Priestly is shown at a meeting with members of the Higham Arts and Crafts Exhibition committee and drinking tea with an elderly lady from the village. There More... | ||||
| B28 | THE OTHER MAN'S SHOES | LIBBY PLUCK | 1975 | |
| Programme three in the series. A day in the life of fashion buyer Libby Pluck. The film opens with Libby playing squash and then a montage of shots of clothes and shoes are shown. She is seen leaving her flat in Liverpool city centre and walking to work at a More... | ||||
| B29 | THE OTHER MAN'S SHOES | ESTATE AGENTS | 1975 | |
| Programme four in the series. Film opens with the presenter talking to auction vendor, Duncan Evans, of real estate firm Swetenhams of Chester. A Swetenhams auction is shown in which items are sold to bidders. The presenter interviews auctioneers. Duncan Evans' father, Dennis Evans, senior partner for Swetenhams, talks about More... | ||||
| B30 | THE OTHER MAN'S SHOES | RICHARD IDE | 1975 | |
| Programme five in the series. Programme about the British Heavy Goods Vehicle industry, opening with shots of lorries on a motorway. The presenter describes the takeover of HGV manufacturers Atkinson of Preston by Seddon in 1970 and there are close-ups of newspaper clippings about the takeover. Atkinson Director, David More... | ||||
| B31 | THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES | JOE GORMLEY | 1975 | |
| Programme two in the series. Mute film opening with shots of a derelict coal mine (probably Ashton Moss pit in Tameside which closed in 1959) showing pit head wheel, decayed buildings, empty miners' restroom and old track. There are exterior shots of the Church of St Oswald and various pub More... | ||||
| B33 | THE TIMES OF THEIR LIVES | CYRIL SMITH | 1975 | |
| Programme that takes Sir Cyril Smith MBE, ex-Mayor of Rochdale and MP, back to his roots. Film opens with shots of Smith visiting Spotland Primary School, Rochdale, where he was a pupil. There is footage of Rochdale town centre, including Rochdale Town Hall, interspersed with stills of Lord Mayor More... | ||||
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