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| REDDISH CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S MAY QUEEN FESTIVAL MAY 13th 1933 | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 1156 | |||
| May Queen festival celebrations in Reddish on May 13th 1933. The procession starts from Gorton Road and includes shots of the Adelaide Street Prize Jazz Band from Bolton and the Newton Social Jazz Band from Hyde. The May Queen (Miss Doris Tidswell) and her retinue parade through the streets with various fancy dress competitors and a selection of carnival floats. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| THE NEW SYKES WARD OPENED IN 1932 [STOCKPORT INFIRMARY] | |||
| Date: *1933 Film Number: 1161 | |||
| Interior shots of Stockport Infirmary. Includes footage of the new Sykes Ward opened in 1932. A doctor uses a portable x-ray plant on a male patient in the ward. Scenes of the Violet Ray Department shows a group of children, wearing goggles, receiving 'Sunlight Treatment'. A nurse is seen applying a plaster cast to a girl's wrist and a young child receives physiotherapy. The film also features behind-the-scenes shots of the hospital laundry room and kitchens. Concludes with shots of the egg collection service in operation around Stockport and district schools, which was set up in aid of the infirmary. Children are seen carrying crates of eggs from their classrooms. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| STOCKPORT INFIRMARY FILM | |||
| Date: *1933 Film Number: 1178 | |||
| A promotional film in aid of Stockport Infirmary. Includes interior and exterior shots of the hospital's pathological department, children's ward, orthopaedic department, operating theatre and Holden ward. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| [HEATON FAMILY VISIT THE FARM AND NELSON CARNIVAL] | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 1241 | |||
| The Heaton family down on the farm. Also includes scenes of the Nelson carnival and shots of a fire engine, a nun and some boy scouts. | |||
| [HEATON FAMILY HOLIDAY TO CEMAES BAY 1933] | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 1246 | |||
| Heaton family holidays at Cemaes Bay in 1933. Scenes include the seafront, cliffs, harbour, people swimming in the sea and a boat on the water at sunset. | |||
| [VISITS TO BLACKPOOL AND THE LAKES] | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 1417 | |||
| Shots of Blackpool seafront and scenes from Bowness, Windermere and Ambleside. | |||
| [VISITS TO LANCASTER AND BLACKPOOL] | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 1418 | |||
| Shots of Lancaster Castle and streets. Followed by footage at a lakeside and on a hill (location unknown). Closes with shots of Blackpool seafront. | |||
| [21ST BIRTHDAY PARTY AND FAMILY HOLIDAYS] | |||
| Date: *1933 Film Number: 1811 | |||
| Family holidays in the Isle of Man and North Wales. Includes a shot of a group of women and girls walking out of a guest house wearing bathing costumes. A man stands in a garden with six children clambering on top of him, they are then seen laying down on the grass doing leg exercises. Concludes with scenes taken at a 21st birthday party. A girl is seen cutting the cake. | |||
| [TWO WOMEN ON A BEACH] | |||
| Date: *1933 Film Number: 1821 | |||
| Two women are seen standing on a beach. One of the ladies is wearing a 1930s style bathing costume. | |||
| ISLE OF MAN - FOR HOLIDAYS | |||
| Date: *1933 Film Number: 1923 | |||
| Members of the Preston family on holiday in the Isle of Man. Various locations around the island are visited - including Douglas, Derby Castle and Onchan Head. At Groudle Glen, people are seen having a ride along a miniature railway and a zoo keeper is filmed throwing fish to a hungry sea lion in its concrete enclosure. Further scenes include close up shots of the Laxey Wheel in motion and a manx cat. Concludes with footage of the seafront at Ramsey. | |||
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| [PALMA AND MALLORCA] | |||
| Date: *1933 Film Number: 1958 | |||
| The Preston family, from Stockport, on board a ship to Palma and Mallorca. During their cruise holiday they visit villages, fruit orchards and a bullfight. | |||
| ORIENT LINE CRUISE TATUAN AND CEUTA | |||
| Date: *1933 Film Number: 1961 | |||
| Members of the Preston family on a cruise holiday to North Africa. They visit the towns of Tatuan and Ceuta where they are seen walking around the local streets and bazaars. Concludes with their return journey to Southampton where they board a train back home to Stockport. | |||
| AUGUST 1933 | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 2049 | |||
| Film of a holiday to Devon. Footage from a campsite is interspersed with shots from the area, including footage of; a pack of hounds; some elephants; a procession through a town centre and people on a beach | |||
| BRIXHAM | |||
| Date: c1933 Film Number: 2050 | |||
| Film from a holiday to Devon. Features coastal footage, including some shot from a moving car. People are seen fishing, in a boat, picnicing on a beach and sightseeing in a small town. There is footage from a campsite as well as of a man with a dead rabbit. | |||
| [HOTEL IN CANNES] | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 2121 | |||
| Mr and Mrs Behrens on holiday in Cannes. Includes panning shots of the surrounding landscape, taken from the balcony of their hotel. The film also contains footage of two children playing in the garden at Netherby, Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury. The little girl and boy stand either side of a hammock, throwing cushions at each other. Concludes with a brief shot of a line of sailors [?], on their hands and knees, scrubbing the deck of a ship. | |||
| [SS MALOJA; MAY 1933] | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 2126 | |||
| Holiday scenes taken on board SS Maloja; May 1933. Includes landscape shots of the Spanish Coast and the Rock of Gibraltar. | |||
| THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 2722 | |||
| A fund-raising film for Christie Hospital's cancer research film. Narrated by a newsreel man, the film tells about the hospitals activties, showing cancer patients being examined, operations being done, nurses preparing and distributing food on the wards, and finally, collecting money on the streets. | |||
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| THE DUCHESS OF YORK OPENS CHRISTIE HOSPITAL 1933 | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 2723 | |||
| Footage of the Duchess of York (soon to be Queen Elizabeth and later the Queen Mother) formally opening Christie Hospital in 1933 - she does a walkabout with hospital officials and civic dignitaries, and greets lines of nurses. | |||
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| BOLTON SCHOOL GIRLS DIVISION SPORTS 1933 | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 2868 | |||
| Film of the Bolton School Girls Division sports. Pupils are seen participating in a three legged race, wheelbarrow race, skipping race, sack race, slow bicycle race and egg and spoon race. Some of the sack race footage is shot in slow motion. | |||
| LADIES DAY, WORSLEY GOLF CLUB, JULY 15TH 1933 | |||
| Date: 1933 Film Number: 3157 | |||
| Men and women enjoying a game of golf during windy weather on Ladies Day at Worsley Golf Club, Salford. | |||
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