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| BEHIND THE SCENES WITH AN 8MM CAMERA | |||
| Date: c1937 Film Number: 8358 | |||
| The compilation reel begins with scenes of a street party that is held to celebrate the coronation of George VI. Shots of people gathered around a table, maypole dancing and children dancing in the street. The film cuts to a short film about a young girl who bakes scones that turn out to be inedible, she is giving a 'L' plate to wear on her back. The next short film is titled 'Prizewinner' and shows of a man entering a 'Holiday Snapshots' competition. He grabs his camera and tripod and drives to the countryside where he photographs waterfalls, rivers and bridges. He drives home and develops the photographs in his dark room. The short film ends with a shot of his photograph published in the magazine. The Dairy Queen Miss Mabel Priestner can be seen sat in a car before posing for photographs outside a local shop. At the Parr Arms in Grappenhall, a woman can be seen holding a tame fox called Nippy and giving him some of her drink. A Coca-Cola van can be seen leaving the pub and driving through Grappenhall. | |||
| [PENNINGTON PARK AND SPRINGTIME] | |||
| Date: 1936-8 Film Number: 8990 | |||
| A family take a walk in Pennington Park, they stop to admire the flowers. Later a young boy plays fetch with the family dog. Back at home, the siblings have a bath before playing with their toys in front of the fireplace. At the beach, the children play in the sea together. On a trip to Wales, the family go for walks and visit the Llandudno beach. The film ends with a trip to see Swallow Falls waterfall. | |||
| [FAMILY IN THE GARDEN; BURY PROCESSION] | |||
| Date: 1936-8 Film Number: 10653 | |||
| A young baby (Roger) sits in his high chair and later plays in the garden with family and friends. In the next scene, a procession makes its way through the street, lead by a brass band followed by civic dignitaries and members of St Paul's Church in Ramsbottom. Later, the family enjoy a picnic in the countryside. The film cuts to when Roger is slightly bigger, he plays with his toys in the garden, helps out with the gardening and builds sandcastles. The film ends with Roger playing with two friends in the garden. | |||
| THE FAMILY AT BLACK ROCK SANDS AUGUST 10th 1936 [AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1936-8 Film Number: 7786 | |||
| Footage of the Brickhill family on holiday in North Wales and at their family home in Cheshire. The film begins with the family at Black Rock Sands playing in rock pools, watched by their elderly parents beside their car; the group then have a picnic on the moors. Back at their house in Cheshire, camera tricks are used to show the women walking backwards in the garden and a game of croquet is played. | |||
| [BLACKPOOL, POULTON-LE-FYLDE, WINDSOR, ISLE OF MAN] | |||
| Date: 1936-39 Film Number: 2220 | |||
| Members of the Edwards family are seen on various day trips to Poulton-Le-Fylde, Windsor and Blackpool. Includes a shot of two large sail boats leaving Blackpool shore on a windy day. Both boats are packed with passengers who are tossed to and fro in the rough sea. The family are also seen relaxing on a crowded beach, making sandcastles and paddling in the sea. Further scenes include a Prescot Parish Church parade; aerial shots of the River Mersey; a civic procession through the streets of Prescot; holiday scenes in the Isle of Man; and footage of employees (from Prescot Gas Company), smiling at the camera prior to their 1938 works outing. | |||
| [GARDEN ANTICS AND COUNTRYSIDE WALK] | |||
| Date: 1936-9 Film Number: 7301 | |||
| Boys play with a ball in a garden and squirt water at the camera before the Hart family go for a walk in the countryside in this brief film. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [BABY MERIEL; COOKING AT FLAGG] | |||
| Date: c1937-8 Film Number: 10820 | |||
| We see baby Meriel and her father on a rug on the lawn. There follow campsite scenes from Flagg where we see a group of women cooking outdoors. | |||
| [GREENWOOD FAMILY IN THE COUNTRY] | |||
| Date: c1938 Film Number: 4259 | |||
| Various Greenwood family members are seen out and about in the Yorkshire and Lancashire countryside. They are seen walking down country lanes with the dog, next to waterfalls and eating picnics. There are views from a Home Guard Display in Centre Vale Park in Todmorden as well as from a moving car, and a dog and a puppy play outside T Greenwood & Sons Ltd, the family soft-drink business in Lydgate. Norman Stansfield is seen in uniform prior to leaving for Burma and there are brief views of the family at home. | |||
| [VEGETABLE HARVESTING] | |||
| Date: 1936-40 Film Number: 8981 | |||
| A farmer harvests potatoes with a horse-drawn plough at Bridges farm. Other men pick up the potatoes and put them into baskets. A group of women collect more vegetables while a man prepares more soil for planting. At Blundells farm in Cadishead Moss, workers pick celery and onions. We see the planting, growing and gathering of tomatoes at Unsworth's Nurseries. | |||
| [ST. MARY'S LOWE HOUSE CHURCH, CHRISTENING AND FAMILY SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1936-41 Film Number: 5526 | |||
| Compilation film featuring White family and friends in and around St. Helens and Staffordshire. Barbara Glover's Christening at St Mary's is followed by scenes from the first four years of Winefride White's life - as a baby being pushed in a pram, visiting friends, at a picnic in the countryside and playing with her cousin. Includes snowy scenes in the grounds of St. Mary's Lowe House, St Helens. | |||
| THE MARCH OF TIME, FEATURING KEITH HODKINSON | |||
| Date: 1936-41 Film Number: 7200 | |||
| Family film featuring shots of Keith Hodkinson as a baby and toddler. Baby Keith is seen at 2 weeks old and then in a number of locations with his parents, including Scarborough and Southport on holiday. Keith, family members and friends are also filmed in the garden of the new family home in Romiley, where the adults talk, play cards and do some gardening. Includes brief footage of a visit to the 'Empress of Britain' steamship in dock, possibly at Liverpool. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [WENDY, MERIEL AND OTHER CHILDREN IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1937-40 Film Number: 10838 | |||
| Wendy, Meriel and a little boy are seen playing in the garden. They are playing at digging and sweeping. There is a baby in a pram in the garden and after playing they go and rock the pram. | |||
| [HINDLEY FAMILY SCENES AND BLACKPOOL] | |||
| Date: *1936-44 Film Number: 3636 | |||
| A variety of scenes focusing on Rosemary and Valerie Hindley at Leach House, Colne. They are seen opening their presents one Christmas morning and then at the Christmas table with their nurse/nanny and other children. Also garden scenes with the girls playing in the sandpit, on a tricycle, with a ball and on a swing. Rosemary on her pony being led round by her father. The girls and their mother throwing stones into the river Ribble at Halton West and with their father, digging in the garden. A school lesson in the garden and swimming lessons in a public pool. Finally a visit to Blackpool, donkey rides on the beach, a man with a Charlie Chaplin string puppet and a picnic by a river. | |||
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| [THE INGHAM CHILDREN AND FAMILY PETS] | |||
| Date: *1936/7/8/9/45 Film Number: 8902 | |||
| Shot over several years, the Ingham children are seen in their back garden with the family pets - various dogs and a cat, then playing with bicycles, a toy car and pram; in winter, they build a soldier snowman. Adults are occasionally seen; there is a brief shot of the boy at a boating pool, and men playing golf. | |||
| [THE INGHAM FAMILY IN THE LAKE DISTRICT AND YORKSHIRE] | |||
| Date: *1936/7/9/46 Film Number: 8908 | |||
| Compilation of family leisure footage in the Lake District and Yorkshire. People are seen in the countryside, hillwalking and enjoying the scenery; also out and about at the coast or taking a boat trip. A steam train passes by and there is an attempt to befriend some passing cows. | |||
| [WINTON WHIT WALK; DODD FAMILY] | |||
| Date: c1936-49 Film Number: 6122 | |||
| A Whit Walk through the streets of Winton in Eccles and views of various members of the Dodd family in the garden at home. The wedding of Margaret Dodd and Harry Trevor Court at St Mary Magdalene Church in Winton on a rainy day in April 1944 is followed by scenes at their son Alexander's Christening in 1948. | |||
| FAMILY SCRAPBOOK | |||
| Date: 1936-51 Film Number: 4411 | |||
| Kathryn and Judith Wain are seen on a walk at Werneth Low. George Wain is seen teaching maths at St George's School in Hyde, and there is footage of a Royal visit to Hyde by George VI and Queen Elizabeth. A short fictional film produced by George Wain and E M Greenwood, 'Chinese Interlude,' is seen, starring George Wain and Gladys McIlwraith as a couple going to buy a house, who are told the story of the willow pattern by an antiques dealer - this story is shown as an animation. Peter Wain is seen as a baby in 1944, being collected along with his mother Mary, from Aspland Maternity Home by his father and two sisters. He is seen as a toddler in the garden, on his fifth birthday and again as a baby. Pole Bank is seen covered in snow, and a group of sixth-form girls, including Kathryn, is seen in the garden. The film concludes with brief views of a family holiday to Llandudno. | |||
| MEMORIES OF MANXLAND | |||
| Date: 1936-39 Film Number: 1407 | |||
| A holiday to the Isle of Man, departing from Liverpool and featuring many of the islands tourist attractions and activities. | |||
| [THREE WEDDINGS] | |||
| Date: *1936/8 Film Number: 7788 | |||
| Footage of three weddings in Cheshire and Greater Manchester. The film begins with the wedding of James Crosbie Currie to Alice Majorie Weir with exterior shots of Alderley Parish Church as the Best Man and Groom arrive. Friends and family walk towards the church followed by the Bridesmaids and Bride with her father. Photographs are taken after the service and the newlyweds depart the churchyard under confetti and board the wedding car. At the second wedding, family and guests arrive at Manchester Cathedral, bridesmaids and finally the bride arrives and pose for photos. At the third wedding, at Alderly Parish, guests arrive and walk down a red carpet towards the church, the bridesmaids, flower girl and the bride arrive and pose for photos. | |||
| JOAN MARQUIS CROOK JUNE 28 1936 | |||
| Date: 1936/37 Film Number: 7791 | |||
| Film of Brickhill family members and baby Joan. Joan and her mother are shown with friends and family walking from Alderly Parish Church after her Christening. In the garden of their Cheshire home, a Jack Russell dog plays with elder Mrs Brickhill as Joan and mother play on the lawn; we then see Interior shots of older Joan (toddler) with Mary Brickhill and playing outside in the street, This is followed by footage of baby David Brickhill in his underpants running round the garden, being chased by his mother and the family's pet bulldog. The film ends with Joan, dressed in her Sunday best, and other members of the family playing in the garden with toys. | |||
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