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| LIBYAN PEOPLE WILL BE FREE, CTRL-ALT-DELETE GADDAFI | |||
| Date: 2011 Film Number: 11595 | |||
| Interviews with demonstrators against the Gaddafi regime who appeal to the government and international authorities to help with the Arab Spring uprising in Libya. The demonstrators chant anti-Gaddafi slogans and burn a flag outside the BBC studios on Oxford Road in Manchester. | |||
| MANCHESTER TO THE EGYPTIAN PEOPLE WITH LOVE FEB. 2011 | |||
| Date: 2011 Film Number: 11596 | |||
| The demonstrators outside the BBC studios on Oxford Road in Manchster express their support and solidarity with the Epytian people during their struggle as part of the Arab Spring uprising | |||
| MANCHESTER STUDENT DEMO 8TH DECEMBER 2011 | |||
| Date: 2011 Film Number: 11598 | |||
| On 8 December 2011, student demonstrators march against cuts in educational services from All Saints Park to a rally at Piccadilly Gardens via Oxford Road and Portland Street. The film includes speeches, students chanting and a short interview with one of the student demonstrators about tax avoidance and the Liberal Democrats. | |||
| MANCHESTER UK UNCUT PROTEST - ITS PAYDAY!! | |||
| Date: 2011 Film Number: 11599 | |||
| On 18 December 2011, demonstrators protest against tax avoidance and public sector job cuts outside the Top Shop and BHS stores in the Manchester Arndale Centre, as well as a sit down protest in the Vodaphone store that results in the closing of the shop. The peaceful protestors are interviewed about tax avoiding big high street companies. | |||
| SAVE MANCHESTER ADVICE SERVICES | |||
| Date: 2011 Film Number: 11602 | |||
| On 18 December 2011, demonstrators march and protest on Oxford Road against the coalition government's cuts to the free legal advice centre. The film features interviews with protestors and passionate speeches at the rally in Albert Square in Manchester. | |||
| SAVE OUR SURESTARTS, MANCHESTER PROTEST FEB 26 2011 | |||
| Date: 2011 Film Number: 11603 | |||
| Parents and children protest at the proposed cuts to the Surestart centres by the coalition government at a rally held in Albert Square in Manchester on 26 February 2011. The film features interviews with concerned mothers, protesters, a member of the city council and a MP. | |||
| THE SAVE LEVENSHULME BATHS DEMONSTRATION 12TH FEB 2011 | |||
| Date: 2011 Film Number: 11606 | |||
| The demonstration to save Levenshulme Baths from closure on 12 February 2011, features children and adults carrying banners and chanting as well as interviews and speeches from concerned local residents. | |||
| HARPURHEY HONEYBEES & MYSTERIOUS WHITE STRIPES | |||
| Date: 2012 Film Number: 11501 | |||
| On 12 August 2012, bee Keeper Kay Phillips walks by the River Irk in Harpurhey and points out the Himalayan Balsam flowers which give the bees a white stripe down their backs. Back at the Baytrees Bee Project Kay inspects the bee hives and collects bees for dissection to check for diseases and explains the capping of the cells that the young bees emerge from. | |||
| GAZA UNDER SIEGE PROTEST - MANCHESTER 16TH NOV. | |||
| Date: 2012 Film Number: 11609 | |||
| A night time demonstration on 16 November 2012 by pro-Palestine protesters against the Israeli siege of Gaza, held in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester. We hear from several speakers and the crowd chant and wave flags and placards. | |||
| THE MINERS BATH HOUSE | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11371 | |||
| Filmed as part of the Irwell Valley Mining Project, this film begins with a trip to the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield. Miners are seen returning from the pit cage and then an ex miner explaining the 'dirty' lockers the miners used. Next we visit the bathhouse with its showers and then onto the 'clean' lockers where the miners would put on their everyday clothes. | |||
| AGECROFT COLLIERY - THE LAST PIT IN THE VALLEY | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11372 | |||
| Filmed as part of the Irwell Valley Mining Project and featuring Paul Kelly, an ex miner who tells the story of Agecroft Colliery and what it was like to work down the pit. He stands on what remains of the various pit shafts at Agecroft and using the Beetham Tower in Manchester as an example, shows the depth of the No. 3 shaft [2235 ft or four towers]. Paul then tells of the history of the colliery using maps, illustrations and stills. To show what it was like to be a miner Paul visits the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield in Yorkshire, where he descends in the cage to the pit floor and shows the various jobs that miners did and the conditions they suffered. The film ends with a visit to the Astley Green Colliery near Wigan and the unveiling of a memorial at the Agecroft site | |||
| AGECROFT COLLIERY MEMORIAL DAY | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11373 | |||
| The unveiling of a memorial to the miners of Agecroft Colliery with speeches and interviews with ex miners, union representatives, local teachers and members of the Irwell Valley Mining Project. The monument is unveiled by ex miners and blessed by a priest before children plant flowers around the monument. The film ends with music from the Besses Boys Band and people posing for photographs with the monument. | |||
| BAYTREES: OUR HISTORY, OUR TRANSFORMATION, OUR PEOPLE, OUR COMMUNITY, OUR HARPURHEY | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11374 | |||
| This is a film showing the redevelopment of terraced housing and gardens in the Baytrees area of Harpurhey in North Manchester. Each street is shown in its derelict state, then in its redeveloped state with a local resident standing on the street and receiving a photograph of the derelict street. The film ends with footage taken from a drone flying over the rooftops of the Baytrees area of Harpurhey. | |||
| THE LOST PITS OF THE IRWELL VALLEY | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11375 | |||
| Filmed as part of the Irwell Valley Mining Project, ex-miner Paul Kelly takes us around the sites of the lost pits of the Irwell valley, these include Pendleton, Clifton Hall, Newtown and Wheatsheaf Collieries. At each site Paul gives a brief historical or personal anecdote about the pit and its miners. | |||
| [BROADHURST PARK - 16 DECEMBER 2013] | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11379 | |||
| On 16/12/2013, Kay Phillips talks to camera and shows the Broadhurst Park site being cleared and piles being driven into the ground as part of the early stages of construction of FC United's new stadium. Also included is a brief interview with the project's manager Andy Pilling who gives an overview of the progress made so far despite the weather. | |||
| FC UNITED - NOW WE BUILD OUR OWN GROUND | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11398 | |||
| Kay Phillips explains that the winner of the golden ticket will be the first to break ground at the site of FC United's new stadium at Broadhurst Park in Moston on 17 November 2013. She then interviews fans of the club about how excited they are about the new stadium. After a short speech by Andy Walsh the ground is broken and Kay talks with first team manager Karl Marginson followed by a chat with Zoe the golden ticket winner. | |||
| FC UNITED & PARTNERS - BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11399 | |||
| On 18 November 2013, Kay Phillips interviews several people at the ground breaking ceremony at the Ronald Johnson playing fields in North Moston Manchester. These interviews include Sir Richard Leese of Manchester City Council, Paul Mitchell and Colin Maclaren of Moston Juniors football club, the project manager David Robinson, Stephen Hughes the architect, Brian Morris the electrical consultants and Jim Budd the highways engineer | |||
| THE BREAKING GROUND PROJECT - RJPF MOSTON | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11401 | |||
| As part of the Breaking Ground project, a look at the key moments at football clubs throughout Britain made by the National Football Museum's John O'Shea and the artist Neville Gabie. A photograph of a group of FC United fans recreating the stands behind the yet to be built goalposts of Broadhurst Park is taken to be part of an exhibition. Kay Phillips interviews the artist Neville Gabie about the similarities between the new ground of FC United and the derelict ground of Bradford Park Avenue. | |||
| PACE EGG PLAY 2ND OF APRIL 2013 AT THE RING O'BELLS | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11463 | |||
| A traditional folk Pace Egging Easter play performed in front of Middleton's Ring O'Bells Inn with characters dressed as the King of England, knights, St. George, a doctor, a horse and a Turk with folk dancing, singing, sword fights and terrible jokes. The film shot in black, white and red is watched by a small but appreciative audience who give money to the players at its conclusion. | |||
| ALL TOGETHER NOW FOR THE NHS - MARCHING IN MANCHESTER 2013 | |||
| Date: 2013 Film Number: 11484 | |||
| On 29 September 2013, marchers at the pro-NHS demonstration in Manchester sing protest song then, over a speech by Owen Jones, we see the demonstrators carrying banners, flags and placards marching on Deansgate, Oxford Road and finally at a rally in Whitworth Park. Here the singer of the Liverpool band, The Farm, Peter Hooton leads the crowd in singing 'All together now' with the aid of the Stalybridge Brass band | |||
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