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[ON SITE]
Date: *1947 Film Number: 1093
 
Construction site - crane and lorries in shot.
 
 
 
[OFFICE WORKERS]
Date: *1947 Film Number: 1106
 
Individual office workers in front of the camera. In the snow - snow covered roofs; on the station waiting for a train.
 
 
 
[EASTHAM OIL DOCK MODEL]
Date: *1947 Film Number: 1110
 
Model of the proposed Eastham oil dock; the area is also shown on a map.
 
 
 
EASTER FILM & CLEVLEYS 1947 - OUR FIRST MOVIE
Date: 1947 Film Number: 1251
 
Three small children play with their toys in a back garden. Also features scenes of the Jones Family walking along the seafront in Clevleys.
 
 
 
MORECAMBE
Date: 1947 Film Number: 1256
 
The Jones Family on holiday at Morecambe in 1947. Includes scenes of two young boys enjoying a ride on a merry-go-round, eating ice creams and playing on swings and slides.
 
 
 
PRESTON GUILD LODGE LADIES SOCIAL EVENING
Date: 1947 Film Number: 1353
 
Worshipful Master greets those attending the Preston Guild Lodge Ladies Social Evening. Presentations and toasts follow before dancing and whist playing begins. The film closes with footage of the gutted Guild building, destroyed by fire three weeks after Ladies Evening.
 
 
 
[TWO LITTLE BOYS]
Date: 1947 Film Number: 2142
 
Two little boys are seen playing in the Behrens family garden. One of the boys sits in a small trolley and is pulled across the lawn by the other child.
 
 
 
[BEHRENS FAMILY - NETHERBY GARDEN]
Date: 1947 Film Number: 2143
 
Scenes of Mr and Mrs Behrens with their daughter Ruth, and her three children, in the family garden; 1947. Includes shots of a summer house in the background.
 
 
 
WATERWORKS. A SHORT STORY OF BRITAINS WATER SUPPLY
Date: c1947 Film Number: 2514
 
Film dealing with how water is collected, treated and distributed to customers.
 
 
 
THE SCHOOL SPORTS 1947
Date: 1947 Film Number: 2864
 
Crowds are seen assembled at Bolton School for the 1947 Sports Day. Pupils compete in high jump and long jump competitions and a middle distance race. Some footage is shot in slow motion.
 
 
 
THE NEW FOREST CAMP 1947
Date: 1947 Film Number: 2865
 
Film of a camping trip undertaken by pupils of Bolton School to the New Forest. Children are seen traversing a string bridge, swinging on a rope, chopping wood and preparing a meal using a gas stove and an oven made from soil and stones. The schools headmaster tours the camp.
 
 
 
SCOUT DISPLAY 31ST MAY 1947
Date: 1947 Film Number: 2866
 
Film of a scout display at Bolton School. Scouts demonstrate the building of various structures from wood and rope. A stretcher constructed in this manner, is used in the staged tending of a bicycle crash victim. There are also cooking demonstrations. Closes with shots of a speech being delivered in a hall, to a non-scout audience.
 
 
 
[AFTER THE WEDDING AND COASTAL HOLIDAY]
Date: 1947 Film Number: 3115
 
Film opens with footage of people - including the bride and groom - leaving a wedding. Continues with footage of children in a garden, a man writing at a desk in a garden and high angle shots of a coastal town. Also features footage of three elderly people on a windswept beach. They are seen playing boules with some stones and struggling up sand dunes to a Union Jack. The same people are seen playing pitch and putt golf and picnicing on a beach, closes with shots of people walking around a garden
 
 
 
[FIREWORKS AND GORTON WHIT WALK]
Date: 1947 Film Number: 3459
 
Footage of an elaborate firework display, and a whit walk on the streets of Gorton, with a brass band, brownies, girl guides and little girls in their best dresses.
 
 
 
[ON THE PROM AT BLACKPOOL]
Date: 1947 Film Number: 3460
 
Footage of the beach and promenade at Blackpool, with people sitting in deckchairs on the sand and walking along the prom. There are views of the tower and North Pier from the beach, and shots of surging, crashing waves.
 
 
 
[DENIS PRESTON ON HOLIDAY TO BOURNEMOUTH]
Date: *1947 Film Number: 3554
 
Shots of Denis Preston at Victoria Station in London with several steam engines. After brief views of Bournemouth, Denis is seen on the beach with his mother Margaret and sister Angela. Denis is also seen on a motorboat ride at a fun fair.
 
 
 
[PONIES]
Date: *1947 Film Number: 3628
 
Rosemary and Valerie Hindley and family friends, including Michael and Bill Bannister, are seen practising over the jumps at Manor House, Blacko and looking after their ponies.
 
 
 
POWER FOR SHIPS
Date: 1947 Film Number: 3861
 
A film about the use of Crossley Engines in shipping, with a description of how they are designed, constructed and installed. There are views of various ships which use Crossley engines in action, and the advantages of Crossley engines are detailed. North West examples show the Knott End ferry in Fleetwood and tugs and other vessels on the Manchester Ship Canal.
 
 
 
[AT CRICCIETH IN 1947]
Date: 1947 Film Number: 4120
 
Joan Rendell is seen outside a house, next to the car. Various members of the Rendell, Hill and Welch families are also seen on the beach and playing in the sea at Criccieth.
 
 
 
[GLASSON DOCK SCENES AND MISC.]
Date: *1947 Film Number: 4216
 
Collection of miscellaneous shots - Beatrice Eastham asleep in deckchair; lads diving into harbour; sailing ships; a couple and a dog outside a terraced house; children building a snowman. The film ends with scenes from Glasson Dock near Lancashire - two boys in a rowing boat on a wet and windy day, people on the quayside and the boys are finally seen washing the deck of sailing boat.
 
 
 
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