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Series Title |
Programme Title |
Year |
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| B695 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | THE FARMERS | [Unknown] | |
| Frank Mellor visits four different farmers in the North West: Peter and Christine Birchall who took on Waterhouse Farm near Kendal with no experience, Chris Watmoor who runs a profitable turf-growing farm at Preston Brook in Cheshire, Dutchman Herman Lenders who farms beansprouts in Astley in Greater Manchester, and More... | ||||
| B720 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | BOWLAND | [Unknown] | |
| Frank Mellor accompanies Dick Watson as he visits farmhouses in the Fylde to examine architectural features that are typical of the Fylde area More... | ||||
| B722 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | GISBURN ESTATE | [Unknown] | |
| Inserts featuring Gisburn Park Estate in the Ribble Valley and the Pendle Forest and Craven Hunt. Frank Mellor discusses the lack of returns to be had for land owners in Britain. There are shots of the Pendle Forest and Craven Hunt's annual hound show and hunt masters Christopher Hindley and 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... | ||||
| B17 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | GRASS, COWS, CAPSTICK | 1975 | |
| Three aspects of Cumbrian life are shown. Frank Mellor attends a Cumberland Grassland Society demonstration, in which West Cumbrian farmers are shown new machinery for cutting grass and baling hay and a Ministry of Agriculture spokesman is interviewed. Mellor then investigates the proliferation of European cattle breeds on Cumbrian farms More... | ||||
| B18 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | GROUSE | 1975 | |
| B18/1: Frank Mellor visits a grouse-rearing farm and interviews the owner and gamekeeper Bob Foster about the issues involved with the intensive rearing of pheasants and their introduction to the wild. Mellor then attends a field sports Game Fair at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire, where the upper classes browse More... | ||||
| B19 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | NATIONAL TRUST | 1975 | |
| Frank Mellor goes to National Trust (NT) owned areas of the Lake District: Cockley Beck near Wrynose Pass, Tarn Hows and Friar's Crag on Derwent Water and discusses the conflict between public access and preservation. Mellor visits the NT Regional Office near Windermere and interviews Tony Law, NT's Regional Agent More... | ||||
| B20 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | HONEY | 1975 | |
| Three strands on aspects of country life in the North West. Frank Mellor goes to a honey-making operation in the Lune Valley, where he is shown by owner Ted Humphries, bees making honey in bee hives and honey being bottled and packaged in a factory. Mellor then visits Martin More... | ||||
| B627 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | [TITLE SEQUENCE: SECOND SERIES] | 1975 | |
| Incomplete part-mute title sequence for the series 'Country Concerns' showing brief countryside scenes More... | ||||
| B696 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | MARKETS | 1975 | |
| Four market-related film inserts. Frank Mellor visits Ashton-under-Lyne market and describes its history and popularity. There is black and white archive footage from the 1920s of food produce being unloaded off a ship, the interior of a food auction and market scenes (see NWFA main collection film More... | ||||
| B697 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | [MONUMENTS, MARMALADE, MOLE CATCHER] | 1975 | |
| Film insert relating to various memorials, monuments, castles and towers in the North West. Frank Mellor describes the lighthouse at Hoad Hill in Ulverston, Pennington Lodge near Newby Bridge, Skirton Bridge in Lancaster, Hornby Castle in the Lune Valley, Mow Cop Castle near Congleton, the Anderton Boat Lift near Northwich More... | ||||
| B726 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | HILL FARMER | 1976 | |
| Extract in which young farming couple Stan and Margaret Richardson are re-visited, four years after his first visit, by Frank Mellor at their farm at Boredale Head in Cumbria. Includes Stan at Kendal auction and herding his sheep with dogs (incomplete More... | ||||
| B710 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | MILK (HOLSTEINS) | 1980 | |
| Insert about dairy farming, in which Frank Mellor talks to a farmer about the Holstein breed and their capacity to produce milk. Includes shots of Holstein cattle in a field and a cow being artificially inseminated More... | ||||
| B721 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | CHESHIRE CHEESE / PIG FARMER | 1980 | |
| Two inserts relating to the Cheshire cheese industry and the British bacon industry. Frank Mellor visits a Cheshire cheese farm in Mollington near Chester and speaks to owners Oulton and David Wade. Includes shots of the different stages of the cheese-making process: milk being churned, curd being pressed in More... | ||||
| B723 | COUNTRY CONCERNS | RABBIT LADY / PEAT CUTTER / LAND RECLAMATION | 1980 | |
| Frank Mellor looks at two aspects of country life. He interviews rabbit breeder Peggy Marsden at her farm in Hale Barns, Cheshire. Marsden speaks about rearing rabbits for the table and there are shots of rabbits in cages. Mellor then goes to a peat moss near Whitbarrow in South Cumbria More... | ||||
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