Accession Number

B299

Series Title

LOOK NORTH

Programme Title

LOOK NORTH REVIEW 1974

Producer

Gordon Tucker

Other Credits

Presenter: Stuart Hall

Transmission Date

31/12/74

colour , sound (sep), 18 mins 56 secs

Synopsis

Stuart Hall presents this New Year's Eve look back at some of the characters featured on Look North in 1974. Includes 85 year old student Stanley Churchill-Glassey from Upton, Wirral; George Ranger from Houghton Green, Warrington who's sailing round the world; the landlocked Stockport Lifeboat Crew sailing at Fleetwood; Anne McNamara and David Metcalfe who did a 24 hour rollercoaster ride at Belle Vue; Ken Dodd doing a charity joke-telling marathon; Bebbington Grammar School U.F.O. society; young aircraft photographers at Woodford Air Show; schoolboy ballroom dancer Danny Hill from Denton; Dr Rosalea David working on Egyptian mummies at the Manchester Museum; Joy Pounder of Whalley, Preston, who restores works of art; multiple sclerosis sufferer Brenda Macreth from Whittington near Kirkby Lonsdale; the sale of costumes at Blackpool's Ice Drome; Sally-Anne Bottomly who plays the organ at George Lester's chip shop in Hollinwood; Ernest Tomlinson who composes electronic music at his farmhouse in Longridge; anti-Common Market protester Harry Goodall; Knutsford residents using turf to repair houses; Councillor John Golden of Lytham St Annes championing the King Edward potato; Arthur Ball of Warrington blowing up tyres and hot water bottles by lung power; Bill Shankly on leaving Liverpool Football Club; a springer spaniel in Langley near Macclesfield that's adopted a fox cub; a curlew in Nelson that refuses freedom; the Budgie Hotel in Lymm; the arrival of deep sea fish at Fleetwood Dockside; snake owner Peter Garnett of Skelmersdale; Debbie Hardacre of Penwortham near Preston who rides a cow like a horse.