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| [WENDY PLAYS WITH A BUCKET] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 10793 | |||
| Wendy plays in the garden with a bucket. | |||
| [BUILDING SANDCASTLES AT RED WHARF BAY] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 10794 | |||
| A group of adults and children build sandcastles on the beach. | |||
| [EDALE AND RED WHARF BAY] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 10795 | |||
| The film opens with campsite scenes. Adults are seen outside their tents and the children play. We then see the children digging on the beach. | |||
| [GUY FAMILY VISIT TO THE ZOO] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 11221 | |||
| The film opens with scenes of cars parked in a field with children nearby. This is followed by scenes from the zoo, where we see a crowd of spectators watching the sea lions being fed. | |||
| [BRICKHILL FAMILY, JULY 1936] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 7780 | |||
| Footage of the Brickhill family in their garden, July 1936. Marol (Mary) Brickhill is shown playing with their bulldog and there is a game of croquet. Street scenes at the front of the house show Marol driving the Daimler. Then there are scenes of workman on rooftop scaffolding. | |||
| GALA DAY | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 8597 | |||
| Scenes at Renold's outdoor gala in the grounds of the Burnage works. Smartly dressed employees and their families walk around and watch sports activities and displays, and enjoy a stage show and other activities. Hans Renold himself (an elderly man with a hat and beard) is seen early on in the film. | |||
| [ACTIVITY AT RIBBLESDALE CEMENT WORKS 1] | |||
| Date: *1936 Film Number: 8706 | |||
| Activity at Ribblesdale Cement Works and quarry, including a group of men standing around at the bottom of the quarry face, a mechanical digger depositing its contents into railway wagons, shots of a huge rotating drum inside the works, and men alighting from a steam engine via short ladders. | |||
| [RIBBLESDALE CEMENT WORKS -THE BUSINESSMEN'S VISIT] | |||
| Date: *1936 Film Number: 8709 | |||
| Brief scenes from the Ribblesdale Cement Works in Clitheroe: smoke issues from the works chimney stack; a group of business men enjoy their lunch; the visiting businessmen take their leave outside the building before departing on a coach. | |||
| MOVIE SNAPS 1936 | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 8722 | |||
| Compilation of family and leisure scenes, some local, some in London or abroad. Family members visit Ashton Gardens on a wintry Easter Monday, and enjoy their own back garden, relaxing, playing and larking around, in better weather. Mrs King walks through Hyde Park, where the Higher Arts Society are putting on an open-air display. There are also scenes at the Royal Lancashire Show, and footage from a cruise around the Mediterranean on the S.S. Montclare. | |||
| [SCENES FROM MANCHESTER, BLACKPOOL AND NEWQUAY] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 1416 | |||
| Scenes of London and Blackpool, including some of their prominent buildings. Followed by domestic scenes and cricket. A procession in Manchester is seen prior to more domestic shots and footage of a boat on a lake. The film also features footage from a holiday to Newquay in 1936, comprising a variety of beach pursuits. | |||
| [TENBY HOLIDAY 1936] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 1426 | |||
| Scenes of children playing on the beach and on a lilo, along with a woman, in the sea. | |||
| MEVAGISSEY | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 2042 | |||
| Film of a holiday in Cornwall. Features footage of Mevagissey, including fishermen and streetscenes, as well as from a variety of other Cornish towns and tourist attractions. | |||
| [POOLE SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1936 Film Number: 2882 | |||
| Film shot in Poole, Dorset. There is footage of a park and footage of a ferry docking - a Bournemouth bound bus disembarks. | |||
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| [ACTIVITY AT RIBBLESDALE CEMENT WORKS 2] | |||
| Date: *1936 Film Number: 8707 | |||
| After shots of a furnace, men are seen digging around the edge of a giant mixing machine, before railway wagons arrive and are emptied, with the men's help, into the machine. The reel concludes with two smartly-dressed men, each carrying technical equipment, standing and smiling at the camera. | |||
| [ACTIVITIES AT THE SIR ROBERT JONES MEMORIAL WORKSHOP - LIVERPOOL] | |||
| Date: *1936/7 Film Number: 477 | |||
| The Workshop trains physically handicapped people over school age. Activities featured are the General Committee at work - ladies seated around a table; a medical inspection - boys are weighed and have their chests, throats and limbs examined; all stages of book - binding; dinner time in the kitchen and the canteen; recreation; table - tennis, cards, reading, sewing, bagatelle, etc; needlework and embroidery room - women sewing at a long table; more scenes in the bindery; men busy in a leather workshop; and finally (in colour) a display of finished goods, and groups of workers, outside in the yard. 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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| [THE OPENING OF THE GOYT VALLEY FILTRATION PLANT] | |||
| Date: *1936/37 Film Number: 934 | |||
| The opening of the Goyt Valley Filtration Plant by the Mayor of Stockport, Alderman George Padmore JP - flowers are presented to the Lady Mayoress; the Mayor starts up the filtration plant - shots of moving pistons and gauges; the Mayor and Mayoress lead a walk over the reservoir footbridge and along the footpaths. | |||
| [BOYS' BRIGADE 1936-1937] | |||
| Date: 1936-7 Film Number: 1193 | |||
| Members of the 72nd Boys' Brigade from Salford are seen participating in a procession through St Peters and Albert Squares in Manchester. Also scenes from a camping holiday in North Wales including a visit to Conway Castle and the beach, a boat trip, hill-walking, sports day at camp and lads playing football. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| [LONGFORD PARK SCHOOL SPORTS DAY AND CORONATION CELEBRATIONS] | |||
| Date: 1936-37 Film Number: 1496 | |||
| Longford Park School Sports Day, Stretford 1936. Includes shots of a netball game; cricket match and a school trip to Windermere. The second part of the film focuses on the school's coronation celebrations. Schoolboys are seen eating a meal in the school hall; leaving the playground at home time and crowding around a man selling ice creams. | |||
| [SHEPHERD AT WORK] | |||
| Date: c1936-37 Film Number: 1717 | |||
| Opens with views of hills and fields in the Lake District. Continues with footage of a shepherd with his sheepdog and flock. The dog herds the sheep over a hill and across a stream. | |||
| [PROCESSIONS AND CELEBRATIONS] | |||
| Date: 1936-7 Film Number: 2501 | |||
| Miscellaneous footage featuring a Whit Walk in Whitefield (?) - the 'queen' and her attendents are seen prior to footage of the Whit Walk. Banners, a band and various people on the walk are all featured. Continues with various shots of people in a garden, obviously aware of the camera. Cuts to a procession, many of the participants are in fancy dress (includes various national costumes), there are shots of a crowning ceremony. Following the title 'May 1937' is footage of celebrations marking the coronation of George . A large float mocked-up as a ship is seen, forming part of a procession. Closes with footage of Whitefield Civic Sunday in 1936, features a procession including police and a marching band. | |||
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