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[BABIES ON A BLANKET]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2185
 
Various family members are seen in the garden of a large house, possibly The Beeches. A woman and baby sit on a blanket in the middle of the lawn. A uniformed nanny joins them with another baby. Concludes with a shot of the two babies together on the blanket.
 
 
 
[TICKLING THE IVORIES]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2186
 
Interior footage of a woman playing the piano. A few shots also feature a young child sat on her knee whilst she plays. Includes close up shots of the woman's arms and hands, as she presses the piano keys.
 
 
 
[BEHRENS - BEACH SCENES]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2187
 
Mr and Mrs Behrens are seen on a beach with two young children and a toddler. The three youngsters climb on top of a large pile of sand. The tide is out and the rest of the beach is deserted. Location Skerries.
 
 
 
[CHOPPY SEA]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2193
 
Miscellaneous scenes of the sea. Includes brief shots of some boats moored in a foreign harbour and various travelling shots of the sea, taken from on board ship. Concludes with family footage of a young girl walking along a garden path, holding hands with two women and a brief shot of a couple of children playing on a swing.
 
 
 
[FAMILY SCENES; GARDEN & ROADSIDE]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2194
 
Family footage shot in a back garden. A woman holds a young girl in her arms and kisses her on the cheek. Also features five children and two women walking along a quiet country road on a windy day. They hold hands and form a circle to have a game of ring-a-ring-a-roses.
 
 
 
[BEHREN FAMILY - SEVERAL GENERATIONS]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2195
 
Various members of the Behrens family are seen walking out of the front door of a house. They are all wearing hats and coats and gather in groups on the driveway. There appears to be several generations of the family present. An elderly man and woman descend the front door steps, with a baby and two children. Concludes with everyone running around the driveway, larking about in front of the camera.
 
 
 
[BEHRENS FAMILY GATHERING]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2196
 
Scenes of a Behrens family gathering. Various family members are filmed as they walk down a set of steps leading from the front door of a large house. They stand around talking to each other on the driveway. One of the men, holds hands with a young boy and they dance around in a circle.
 
 
 
[BEHRENS FAMILY - CHILDREN & ADULTS]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2197
 
Various members of the Behrens family are filmed as they walk down some steps, leading from the front door of a large house. A small group of children and a couple of the women are also seen standing on the pavement next to a parked car. One of the boys takes his cap off and throws it in the air. The car drives off and they wave.
 
 
 
[BEHRENS FAMILY - WALKING IN THE GARDEN]
Date: 1925 Film Number: 2199
 
Behrens family footage - includes several shots of a group of adults and children, walking along a garden path towards the camera. Also includes separate shots of Mrs Behrens and Mr Behrens, walking and talking with a man on the lawn.
 
 
 
[HIGGINSON FAMILY - HOLIDAY TO SWITZERLAND]
Date: c1925 Film Number: 2773
 
Film shot during the Higginson family's holiday to Switzerland. Includes footage shot in the garden of a large house, brief scenes from inside a house and streetscenes in a small town. Also includes shots of a man with an Alpine Horn, children in traditional Swiss costume and a horse and cart.
 
 
 
[SYLVIA HIGGINSON]
Date: c1925 Film Number: 2775
 
Film of Sylvia Higginson as a young child. She is seen playing in a garden with stuffed toys, rocking on a chair, playing with a spade and small bucket and trying on various adult hats. She is also seen with her mother and another woman and a young friend. The two children play together. There is brief footage from a small town and mountainside in Switzerland (?). Sylvia is seen having a picnic, posing in her coat, hat and gloves before walking in a suburban street with her parents.
 
 
 
[SYLVIA HIGGINSON - GARDENS AND BEACH]
Date: c1925 Film Number: 2776
 
Film of Sylvia Higginson as a young child. She is seen playing in the family garden and with various family members and some other children. The children are seen playing with a rabbit. Various people are seen jumping a tennis net and picking flowers. Sylvia is seen with her mother and grandmother at a beach and in a garden with her grandparents and a dog. She plays with a doll in a pram and with a skittle ball.
 
 
 
[BEHRENS FAMILY SCENES]
Date: 1925-26 Film Number: 2198
 
Three young girls are seen having a game of ring-a-ring-a-roses on the driveway, in front of a large house. Includes a group shot of the girls standing with three women and a toddler. One of the girls has an inflated car inner tube, which she throws into the air and catches. Concludes with a brief shot of a man standing infront of a car cranking the handle to start the engine. Two women open the car's doors and get into the vehicle.
 
 
 
[HORSE JUMPING]
Date: *1925-27 Film Number: 3612
 
Reg and John Hindley can be seen practising jumps at Stone Edge, a small farm behind Moorlands, the family home at Blacko, near Nelson. The horses are named as Nancy, Countess and Macroom. Their uncle Archie Haighton can be seen teaching and demonstrating. Further scenes of Jack Hance (a famous instructor) demonstrating dressage, probably at his establishment in Hampshire.
 
 
 
DEREK WALTER RIGBY F H AGED 5 1/2 WEEKS
Date: c1925-28 Film Number: 2777
 
Film of Derek Higginson as a baby and toddler. He is seen as a baby being held by a nanny and lying in his pram. Derek, Sylvia (his sister) and their nanny are seen arriving at the children's grandparents house - the children are seen with their grandparents. There is footage of a picnic - a man drinks from a bottle of wine in comical fashion whilst wearing Sylvia's hat - followed by shots of Derek crawling. Closes with footage from the Higginson's garden. Derek and Sylvia play with a ball and Derek pushes a pedal car. Closes with shots of adult family members enjoying refreshments in the garden.
 
 
 
[A BYGONE ERA IN WINEWALL AND TRAWDEN]
Date: c1927 Film Number: 4959
 
Film focuses on the Pickles family and their relations. Includes footage of family holidays in Blackpool and Morecambe as well as shots of them out in the countryside. There are views from two family weddings at the old Winewall Inghamite Chapel. Footage from school cruise on "the Dorrick" - including a visit to a bullring in Spain and to the city of Tetuan in Morocco. Scenes from the Pickles Bakery van drivers' day out, the Inghamite Chapel Sunday School outing to Brimham Rocks and model boat racing at Fleetwood. Closes with shots of biplanes flying in formation, taking off and landing at an air show.
 
 
 
[SEASIDE HOLIDAY/ ACTIVITIES AT LAKE]
Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 8146
 
Family holiday scenes. We see various scenes from family holidays. Children play cricket on the beach and have piggy back rides. People swim in the sea and are seen in a boat. A group of people with their dogs sit on rocks and they have a picnic. People wearing swimming costumes pose for the camera on the edge of a lake. We see the family in a small wooden boat and children swim and splash each other in the water. Adults have fun near parked cars, some play instruments and others dance, some are wearing fancy dress. A young boy and girl smoke cigarettes, and we see them playing with a lawn roller in the garden. Some children play a game of cards.
 
 
 
[ANIMALS IN GARDEN/ ZOO]
Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 8147
 
The film opens with shots of a girl in the garden with a dog, she wraps a bandage around its paw. A horse looks over a stable door. A man is seen 'water-skiing' on a makeshift board pulled by a motor boat. Shots of a family in a rowing boat on a lake. Various pet dogs, one is held just over the water by its owner. Shots of animals in the garden including a tortoise, hedgehog, dog, puppy and kittens. A boy handles an owl in an enclosure and a girl feeds two owls by hand. Scenes at the zoo include a visit by a group of girl guides, a keeper feeding fish to the pelicans, a chimpanzee trained to put his arm around visitors, and various animals in their enclosures.
 
 
 
[WEDDINGS/ WOMAN WITH FOX/ SLEDGING IN SNOW/ HORSE RACING]
Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 8149
 
Compilation reel begins with wedding guests walking towards camera past a crowd of well wishers, who are kept in order by policemen. The bride and groom are seen leaving church and cutting the wedding cake. The guests mingle at an outdoor reception and the bride and groom depart. We see shots of a woman hand feeding a fox in an enclosure and carrying the fox in a field. Children and adults have fun sledging down a snowy embankment. A woman leads a pony into a courtyard. We see jockeys riding their horses over brush fences in field. A woman places a bet with a bookmaker. We see shots of harvested fields, a group sitting on a picnic rug near a cliff top and people in the sea messing about with a canoe. We see a large group of children squashed on to a see saw and boys wrestling, boxing and riding bikes in the garden.
 
 
 
[GETTING DRY AND LEAVING THE BEACH]
Date: 1925-9 Film Number: 12125
 
We see a group of people on the beach. Some are drying themselves off and others are messing about for the camera. We then see the group leaving the beach.
 
 
 
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