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| THE NATIONAL COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, MANCHESTER | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11464 | |||
| A record of Manchester’s contribution to the events on 1st July 2016 commemorating the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. After scenes of planning and preparation, the film hears from those involved in the project, both organisers and participants, from children in the clay workshop making ‘memory tiles’ for the lost soldiers, to Philip Barratt, Canon Preceptor of Manchester Cathedral, and some of the volunteer dancers. We also see preparatory work in Heaton Park, as the stage is erected and the tiles laid in a pathway. In an adjoining area, living history re-enactors engage with visitors, and there are excerpts from the performance itself, hosted by Nihal Arhanayake. The audience, well wrapped up against the rain, watches a children’s choir, speakers including Lemn Sissay, professional dancers performing on the stage, while others, placed amongst the crowd, stand up and join in. There is music from the Halle Orchestra and guest soloists, before a lone bugler sounds The Last Post. | |||
| THE NATIONAL COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, MANCHESTER [DANCE EDIT] | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11465 | |||
| An edited record of the live performance by professional dancers and voluntary participants in Heaton Park on 1st July 2016, staged as part of the commemoration of the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. In addition to the dancers on the main stage, the volunteers, strategically placed amongst the seated crowd, join in, bringing the performance into the midst of the audience. | |||
| THE NATIONAL COMMEMORATION OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME, MANCHESTER [SHORT EDIT] | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11466 | |||
| A snapshot of the events taking place in Manchester to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, from wreath laying in St Peter’s Square to children making ‘memory tiles’ for the fallen soldiers, and living history re-enactors engaging with visitors. The events culminate in the live performance by a children’s choir, Halle orchestra, speakers, and dancers on an open-air stage in Heaton Park. | |||
| MANCHESTER SAYS KEEP CORBYN 2016 | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11485 | |||
| A demonstration in favour of the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is held in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester on 1 July 2016. The supporters many with flags, banners and placards listen to speeches from local politicians and union members and hold a two minute silence for the fallen soldiers at the Battle of the Somme. After more rousing speeches in the rain the crowd cheer and chant 'Keep Corbyn.' | |||
| TAKE BACK MANCHESTER DEMONSTRATION 4TH OCTOBER 2016 | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11486 | |||
| On 4 October 2016, a political demonstration against the Conservative government begins with Billy Bragg singing 'Power in a Union' to the protesters gathering for the march with banners, flags and placards on Oxford Road in Manchester. The film continues with a passionate speech by Owen Jones as the protesters march on Deansgate, Albert Square and finally to a rally at Castlefield Arena. | |||
| BEES, BEER & THE POLLEN IN YOUR PINT | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11509 | |||
| This short film is introduced by Manchester University geography student Isobel Carpenter who is studying the urban bee and the pollen found in three Manchester sites, the Baytrees Bee Project in Harpurhey, Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Museum and the honey produced from these hives | |||
| BREW WILD, MANCHESTER | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11512 | |||
| The Brew Wild projects photo shoot at Manchester Art Gallery with Kay Phillips and Richard Searle from the Baytrees Bee Project and John Mouncy of Manchester Art Gallery talk about the project. Next we see the planting of three hop plants at Broadhurst Park in Moston and then checking the plant growth a few weeks later | |||
| FC DIGGERS TASTE TEST FOR BREW WILD | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11513 | |||
| Kay Phillips introduces the FC Diggers, the volunteer gardeners at FC United, to the first batch of the honey ale brewed as part of the Brew Wild project. | |||
| FLOWERS, HONEY AND BEER - MANCHESTER TO EDINBURGH BY BIKE | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11514 | |||
| This short film shows the photo shoot and departure on 21 Sept 2016 of a group of cyclists on a 364 mile ride from Manchester to Edinburgh to promote the River of Flowers and the Brew Wild projects, it also includes short interviews with two of the cyclists explaining the aims of the journey. | |||
| JACK AND HIS BEES | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11515 | |||
| On 9 October 2016, at Kersal Vale allotments in Salford, Richard Searle interviews beekeeper Jack Hobbs about the poor Winter and Spring that his colonies have endured and to collect honey to be used in the Brew Wild project. Jack talks about brewing honey beer, the design of the honey jar labels, pollinating apple trees and general bee keeping. | |||
| LONGFORD PARK BEES & THEIR HONEY | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11516 | |||
| Richard Searle collects honey from Longford Park in Stretford, Manchester for the Brew Wild honey beer project. They open and drink the last bottle of the trial batch of the Harpurhey honey and marjoram beer and look at the Longford Park hives. | |||
| MANCHESTER'S HEAVENLY HONEY | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11518 | |||
| Adrian Rhodes, the canon and beekeeper for the Manchester Cathedral rooftop bee hives donating a jar of honey to the Brew Wild project. | |||
| PLANTING YARROW WITH INCREDIBLE EDIBLE OF PRESTWICH | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11528 | |||
| Beekeepers Kay Phillips and John Mouncy plant yarrow with the Incredible Edible team in St. Phillips Park in Prestwich, Manchester on 21 July 2016. The yarrow is to be used as an aromatic in the beer to be produced in September. | |||
| SOWING YARROW IN HARPURHEY | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11531 | |||
| Beekeeper Kay Phillips planting and sowing yarrow seeds in the pollinating bee plot at the Baytrees Bee Project's allotment in Harpurhey Manchester. She reads the planting instructions from the seed packet before sowing the seeds. | |||
| THE BEEKEEPERS OF HEATON PARK | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11532 | |||
| Kay Phillips visits the Dower House In Heaton Park and talks with Lena Crowe of the Manchester and District Beekeepers Association on the number of beekeepers in the Manchester region, approximately 270 members. They also discuss what the bees are feeding on throughout the year in the Heaton Park area. In Kersal Vale in Salford, Richard Searle talks with beekeeper Jack Hobbs about how the damp weather has affected his bee colonies and then shows Richard his machine that extracts honey water from the hive frames to make a honey beer. Back at Heaton Park, Lena conducts a beekeeping training session and gives Kay 4lb of honey to use in the Brew Wild Project. | |||
| THE FIRST TASTE OF MANCHESTER HONEY & HERB BEER | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11533 | |||
| Richard Searle and Abbie from the Grow Wild project sit in the garden of Manchester Art Gallery where they open and taste the honey and marjoram beer for the first time and talk about the next phase of the Brew Wild project. Filmed on 15 September 2016. | |||
| WILD MARJORAM IN MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11534 | |||
| John Mouncy planting marjoram in the Manchester Art Gallery's garden for the Grow Wild and Brew Wild projects. | |||
| HEALTHY ORCHARDS NEED EARTH WORMS | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11554 | |||
| Richard Searle and Kevin Randall both members of the FC Diggers, a voluntary gardening group of FC United fans, appeal for fans to collect and bring earthworms to the next home fixture at Broadhurst Park to help improve the condition of the soil in the orchard. | |||
| PEDDLE-POWERED APPLE JUICE SQUISHING OCTOBER 2016 | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11564 | |||
| In front of the main stand of Broadhurst Park in Moston on 1 October 2016, Richard Searle explains how the pedal powered apple chopping contraption works. Some FC United fans bring bags of apples which are washed, chopped and pressed to make apple juice and ultimately, cider. | |||
| RAISED BEDS - THE SAGA CONTINUES | |||
| Date: 2016 Film Number: 11568 | |||
| The FC Diggers, a voluntary gardening group of FC United fans, constructing raised flowerbed frames in front of the main stand at Broadhurst Park stadium as well as making an appeal for more volunteers and a couple of tons of top soil. | |||
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