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| [MANCHESTER TICKLED PINK] | |||
| Date: *1993 Film Number: 6526 | |||
| Shots taken on board a ferry and in a car driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, followed by scenes taken inside a tropical greenhouse and on a boating lake. Concludes with views of the Manchester 'Tickled Pink' procession (a precursor to the Mardi Gras Carnival) along Canal Street in Manchester. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| [IST BIRTHDAY, ALTRINCHAM METROLINK, 15TH JUNE 1993] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 6574 | |||
| Scenes at Altrincham Station to celebrate the first anniversary of the Metrolink tram service to Manchester. A piano player is seen on the platform, and various civic dignitaries arrive for a ceremony before departing by tram. | |||
| [MISS ALTRINCHAM FESTIVAL 1993 - MARKET TOUR] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 6728 | |||
| Miss Altrincham Festival is taken on a tour of Altrincham Market as part of her duties. She is introduced to many of the market's traders, who are all in fancy dress for the day. | |||
| [ALTRINCHAM FESTIVAL SHOW 1993] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 6739 | |||
| Scenes from the 1993 Altrincham Festival Show in a local park. Views of bands and the Carnival Queen and the mayor and mayoress hand out prizes for the fancy dress competition. | |||
| [ALTRINCHAM HORSE SHOW] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 6740 | |||
| Scenes from a horse show held as part of the 1993 Altrincham Festival. There are displays of horse-jumping, Shetland ponies and judges awarding rosettes to winners. | |||
| [ALTRINCHAM MARKET FANCY DRESS] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 6741 | |||
| A local VIP is shown around Altrincham Market during the 1993 Altrincham Festival - all of the traders are in fancy dress for the day to raise money for local charities. | |||
| [HALLE ORCHESTRA IN ALTRINCHAM] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 6742 | |||
| Extract from a performance by the Halle Orchestra in Altrincham, as part of the 1993 Altrincham Festival. | |||
| [NORWEGIAN EVENING] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 6777 | |||
| Mona Hargen, a Norwegian exchange student and aupair, is seen in the process of organising a Norwegian themed evening at the Orange Tree Hotel in Altrincham. She is seen out and about in the town, recieving a civic reception with three other exchange students at the station and in the town hall with MP Sir Fergus Montgomery. There are scenes from the event itself, with people standing drinking and eating Norwegian food. | |||
| DEAF YOUTH WORKERS TRAINING - 'YOUTH WORK AND THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR' & 'BALANCING THE SCALES' | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 7747 | |||
| Two films made for training Deaf Youth Workers at Bradford and Ilkley Community College. Both films are signed, subtitled and spoken. The first film, 'Youth Work and the Voluntary Sector', interviews people in locations across the north west about the provision for young people at youth clubs and interviews deaf people about youth clubs and volunteering. The second film, 'Balancing the Scales', addresses equal opportunities - described by one interviewee as discrimination by postcode. There are interviews at a Deaf Women's Health Group, St Peters Creche in Manchester, with Mark Todd a wheelchair user in Manchester City Council and at the Manchester Centre for the Deaf. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| DEAF YOUTH WORKERS TRAINING - 'CHALLENGING ATTITUDES' & 'YOUTH WORK AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITY' | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 7748 | |||
| Two films made for training Deaf Youth Workers at Bradford and Ilkley Community College. Both films are signed, subtitled and spoken. The first film, 'Challenging Attitudes', promotes equality of opportunity in the youth service - for young people to value themselves and others. Includes interviews with deaf people who talk about how they organise events to integrate the principles and procedures of equal opportunities. Also talk about direct and indirect discrimination. The second film, 'Youth Work and the Local Authority', looks at an example in Birmingham of social education for 11-25 year-olds covering four types of activity - centre based work; detached and outreach work; residential and city wide activities; the aspiration that deaf young people have the same access as all others. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| DEAF YOUTH WORKERS TRAINING - 'ROSEMARY, SADIA AND RANJIT' | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 7749 | |||
| A film made for training Deaf Youth Workers at Bradford and Ilkley Community College. The film is signed, subtitled and spoken. 'Rosemary, Sadia and Ranjit' recounts the experience of three deaf young people. Rosemary comes from a deaf family in Manchester and she talks about her schools, college, Girl Guides, how she had to fight to get any support and the difficulties of being deaf in a hearing world. Sadia talks about her hearing family and her experience of education, college, work, family expectations about her life and marriage as an Asian woman. Ranjit speaks about his experience being deaf and also a Sikh. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [TEDDY'S GARDEN AND 50TH BIRTHDAY] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 8110 | |||
| Family spend time in the garden of their home in Oxton. In the next scene, family celebrate Ted's 50th birthday with drinks and a barbeque in the garden. | |||
| [KAY'S 21ST - DANCING, HYPNOTIST AND CAKE] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 8117 | |||
| Friends and family gather at Talbot House in Oxton for Kay's 21st birthday party. In the garden there's music, dancing as well as a performance by a hypnotist. The film ends with guests singing happy birthday as Kay cuts into her birthday cake. | |||
| [KAY'S 21ST - HYPNOTIST ACT] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 8118 | |||
| At Kay's 21st birthday celebrations in Oxton, a hypnotist puts some of the guests to sleep. He later performs a trick by pulling a needle and thread through his mouth. | |||
| [KAY'S UNIVERSITY GRADUATION] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 8120 | |||
| Scenes from Elizabeth Kay Whalley's graduation from Manchester Metropolitan University. After the ceremony, the graduates have their photographs taken. The Whalley family then go for some drinks to celebrate. | |||
| [GRASSINGTON 1993] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 10044 | |||
| At the campsite in Grassington members of the 1st Stretford Scout Group take part in games and activities. They cook some food and clean up after themselves. Later the scouts and leaders go kayaking before heading back to camp for food. One scout can be seen chopping wood with an axe. The scouts take part in an obstacle race course and later go abseiling. At a park the group go canoeing on a boating lake, enjoy a ride on the miniature railway and go-karting. The film ends back at the campsite where the scouts receive their certificates for completing the activities. | |||
| [MARTIN MERE AND GARDEN SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1993 Film Number: 2969 | |||
| Scenes of the Taylor's garden at home and assorted swans, geese and ducks at Martin Mere Wildfowl Reserve near Southport. | |||
| [CABIN CRUISER, NARROWBOAT AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1993-6 Film Number: 11243 | |||
| Compilation of family domestic and leisure footage, including members of the Coburn family renovating a cabin cruiser; canal scenes on this boat and the narrowboat ‘The Pub Crawler’ through Cheshire and the Midlands. There are shots of Aberystwyth and the Severn Valley Railway, and a canal rally with an interesting selection of small boats; also Christmas at home, rural scenes, gliders, and a visit to a stately home. | |||
| THE STEAM RAILWAY FESTIVAL BURY AUGUST 1993 | |||
| Date: 1993/5 Film Number: 9169 | |||
| Scenes taken at the East Lancashire Railway in August 1993 at the gala event to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of BR steam. Mainly filmed from the area around the Burrs Country park and Summerseat with various trains heading between Bury and Rawtenstall. Also views taken during a steam train driving experience by the film maker in November 1995 on the ELR. | |||
| THE TRIPE COLONY | |||
| Date: 1994 Film Number: 1983 | |||
| This video was entered into a competition run by Granada / Boddington's Festival in 1994. It focuses on Manchester City Council's decision to demolish an area of Miles Platting, known as 'Tripe Colony' on 25th July 1994. Former residents return to the estate and discuss their reaction to the city council's compulsory purchase order, issued in 1993, deeming the houses structurally uninhabitable. Includes shots of deserted streets, boarded up windows and derelict buildings. They describe a thriving community destroyed by a decision they believe to be rooted in Manchester's bid for the Olympics. | |||
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