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| [SEAGULLS IN BUNGALOW GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1940-50s Film Number: 2627 | |||
| A family stand outside their holiday cottage waiting for the seagulls - they feed seagulls on the lawn, while a man photographs them. | |||
| [COUNTRY LANE AND SANDDUNES] | |||
| Date: 1940-50s Film Number: 2628 | |||
| A car pulls out of a cottage drive onto a road. The family visit sand dunes and then walk along a beach with large rocky outcrops at either end. There is a brief view of a cave at the end. | |||
| [COUNTRYSIDE SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1940-50s Film Number: 2629 | |||
| Scenes of people lying on grassy cliff-tops, with crowds gathering as if watching something. Brief footage meeting outside a hotel and chatting on the street. | |||
| [WOMEN ON THE BEACH] | |||
| Date: 1940-50s Film Number: 2630 | |||
| Women lie on the beach, and go for a paddle. | |||
| [HOTEL AND GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1940-50s Film Number: 2632 | |||
| Scenes of cliffs around a bay, followed by people playing in the garden, getting into the car, sitting outside and strolling in the garden. | |||
| [BEACH AND BOAT] | |||
| Date: 1940s Film Number: 2612 | |||
| On a beach, a woman leads a dog through the waves, and it plays on the beach, savaging a football. Another woman paddles, hitching up her skirt, while a man in old fashioned bathing costume plays football. People pose in front of a car, and there are then some scenes of snow. There are more beach scenes - a passing liner, women walking on a shingle beach, a boat trip around the headland and people playing with the dog. A couple caper around on the beach with an anchor and there is a view of a car parking. The first dog plays with an old man while a second dog has a go at the football. Men and women go paddling, and the film closes with the family going for a country walk. | |||
| [CORONATION AND VE DAY CELEBRATIONS; HOME GUARD] | |||
| Date: 1940-3/5/53 Film Number: 6261 | |||
| Celebrations for the 1953 Coronation are seen in Heaton Mersey - a procession sets off from the war memorial along Didsbury Road, are there are scenes from a tree-planting ceremony. On VE Day people are seen dancing in the street, accompanied by a band, and there is footage of members of the Home Guard marching through the streets of Heaton Mersey during the war. | |||
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| [SCENES AT HART BROS] | |||
| Date: *1940/1/3/6 Film Number: 4419 | |||
| Scenes of welding work and other industrial processes going on at the Hart Bros family engineering firm in Manchester. | |||
| [BRAMHALL PROCESSION] | |||
| Date: 1940-42 Film Number: 1455 | |||
| The film starts with scenes taken at a carnival procession in Bramhall. The Griffiths family are then seen playing croquet in their back garden in Carrwood Avenue - Also includes footage taken at Bramhall bowling green and scenes in and around Oxford which include a shot of four adults lying in a hay stack smoking cigarettes. | |||
| A CAVALCADE OF SCHOOL EVENTS 1940 | |||
| Date: 1940/43-44 Film Number: 2862 | |||
| Film shot at Bolton School. Opens with a chaotic snowball fight on the school field, some footage is shot in slow motion. Continues with footage from the Bolton School PT competition of 1943 - features teams of boys doing exercises in formation. Closes with footage, some shot in slow motion, from the 1944 Bolton School sports day. | |||
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| [ADVERTISEMENT COMPILATION - WIGAN] | |||
| Date: *1940/43-48 Film Number: 312 | |||
| Adverts for goods and services in Pemberton and Upholland, eg. the Co-op, furniture shop, and an electrical dealer. | |||
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| [THE BRICKHILL FAMILY IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1940/44 Film Number: 7797 | |||
| Film of the Brickhill family at their home in Cheshire with Mr Harold Brickhill seen filming them. There are scenes of young David in the front garden and on the street pushing a pram and Mrs Mary Brickhill is shown dressed in a nurse's uniform playing with David who is riding a tricycle. This is followed by scenes of visiting family/ friends, including the elder Brickhills, playing together in the back garden. David then marches at the head of the line carrying a union flag and we see several shots of the plants and borders of the Brickhill home. | |||
| [ICE SKATING AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1940/4/5 Film Number: 6472 | |||
| Scenes of ice skating on a frozen pond at Chorlton Meadows and brief shots of the Home Guard practising shooting on a range at Flixton's old brick works. A kitten is seen chasing around in a garden, followed by views of John Waller dressed in Naval uniform at a radar training camp on the Isle of Man and relaxing at home with the family. | |||
| [FAMILY OFF CUTS] | |||
| Date: *1940/6/7 Film Number: 7898 | |||
| Overexposed shots of a man baling grass in the fields. Maureen walking in the countryside by a river then her mother showing her tadpoles in a jam jar and her father in army uniform. The children opening Christmas presents and playing a toy piano. Maureen in the garden playing with a ball then a dog doing tricks for its owner. A Christmas tree with presents underneath then girls with baies in their prams in the garden. Overexposed shots of a boy playing with a ball and Maureen with a doll. | |||
| [SCHOOL PLAYING FIELD] | |||
| Date: *1940/50/59 Film Number: 377 | |||
| Wallasey Grammar School - outside the school; cricket; rugby. | |||
| [RUGBY TEAM LINE-UP] | |||
| Date: *1940/59 Film Number: 371 | |||
| Wallasey Grammar School boys - rugby team line-up. | |||
| THE HEART OF BRITAIN | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 60 | |||
| A British propaganda film to show how Britain is keeping going despite the war. Sequences show the Sheffield steel works, Lancashire mills, ARP work, the Halle Orchestra, bomb damage in Coventry, the work of the WVS, the Huddersfield Choir and aircraft building. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| ALERT! | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 145 | |||
| The film records an ARP exercise in Burnley, on 23rd November 1941. Reel 1: The role played by the ARP wardens during an air raid - includes women and children entering a shelter, and the rescue and resuscitation of a driver from a burning car. Reel 2: Firemen fight a fire in a bombed out terrace - a child is rescued; stretchered injured are taken to hospital - they are shown having treatment. The all-clear siren sounds and the people come out of the shelter - counted by the warden. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| BEHIND THE COUNTER | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 516 | |||
| George is manager of a CWS grocery and demonstrates to his uncle how his run-down shop could be improved by employing CWS methods of display, organisation, staff training, etc. Illustrated with scenes of production of co-op goods (including Crumpsall Biscuits) | |||
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| ROCHDALE WELCOMES HOMECOMING GRACIE | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 550 | |||
| Gracie Fields welcomed by her home town and performs "The Biggest Aspidistra in the World." | |||
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