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Record 3146 – 3165 of 11096
| [VISITING OLD CHURCHES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6235 | |||
| Wallace and Harvey Miller are seen outside a church with a friend and the vicar. They visit various other churches and villages before Diane 'Dimmy' Miller is seen as a toddler playing in the garden. | |||
| [ON HOLIDAY NEAR ABERGAVENY] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6238 | |||
| The Miller girls are seen riding horses on a farm and having a picnic with their parents. View of the countryside and of a ruined abbey (probably Tintern) conclude. | |||
| [RIDING A HORSE] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6239 | |||
| June Graham and three other men are seen taking turns to ride a horse round a field, probably near Ruabon in North Wales. | |||
| [AT PORT MERRION] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6241 | |||
| Views of a waterfall and around the Italian style village of Port Merrion in North Wales. Brief views of Diane Miller skipping in the garden at home conclude. | |||
| [WHIT WALK AT ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6245 | |||
| Scenes from a whit walk in Ashton-on-Ribble near Preston are followed by a girl playing on a swing in a garden and general views of the North Wales countryside near Ruabon. | |||
| [JUNE MILLER ON A HORSE] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6250 | |||
| Scenes with June Miller riding a horse in a field are followed by a baby boy in a playpen in a garden and June with a calf on a farm. There are also views of the gardens at St Anne's School, Windermere. | |||
| [UP IN THE LAKES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6252 | |||
| June Miller and friend are seen playing on a swing and with her mother in the garden. Views of a large hotel in the Lake District are followed by Brigadier Harvey Miller in uniform standing next to a Rolls Royce and walking with a man along the Lancashire coast. | |||
| [VARIOUS SCOUT CAMP SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6454 | |||
| Scouts are shown getting into a lorry, followed by views of their camp being set up and a trip to a waterfall with scouts climbing on rocks by the falls. A glimpse of people emerging from the White Scar Caves follows and of scouts crossing a stream on stepping stones. A comic interlude at camp, where scouts pull the shorts off one of their friends in a melee, followed by the fuming victim sewing them up. Scouts eating at tables, diving and swimming in an outdoor pool, being inspected at drill and hiking through bracken on a hillside. Scenes from a role-playing game, featuring opposing sides dressed as native American Indians, followed by scouts erecting a pulley block over a lake inlet and hauling each other across in turn. Brief views of a paper chase and scouts washing in a stream. | |||
| [TRAIN & GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6458 | |||
| Views of Penally railway station and from a moving train showing an industrial landscape, the countryside and railway yards. Scenes in a garden with a dog chewing a bone and a man picking gladioli. | |||
| [SPORTS DAY & OTHER SCHOOL SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6459 | |||
| Scenes from a school sports day, followed by two football teams running onto a pitch and the victors holding a trophy afterwards. There follows a sequence where school children watch from a distance as a building is demolished by a wrecking-ball. | |||
| [FAMILY PARTIES AND BISPHAM CARNIVAL] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 7279 | |||
| Celebrations in the Gribbons household and a procession and carnival queen crowning in Bispham. Scenes around the table at the 3rd birthday party of one of the Gribbon girls. A parade moves down Red Bank Road in Bispham and, after speeches from the mayor, the carnival queen is crowned. The girls are shown enjoying rides at a travelling funfair, before further party scenes back at the house, including family members posing for the camera. The Gribbons peruse a brochure about Australia and drink a toast before the film concludes with further family footage, some taken on Blackpool beach. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [BARLOW FAMILY HOLIDAYS AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 8002 | |||
| Compilation reel of family holiday and leisure material, with scenes in Southport, including the Lakeside miniature railway, and Blackpool, of the illuminated seafront and trams. The family are also seen at a caravan site; there are zoo scenes, children playing outdoors, and shots of a Whit Walk passing through the streets | |||
| [PADIHAM WALKING DAY c1950] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9517 | |||
| On a rainy day a brass band leads the Padiham walking day followed by church banners, clergymen, children carrying baskets of flowers, cub scouts drumming and rose queens. | |||
| [LEGO AND AUTUMN SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9541 | |||
| Young Deirdre sits at the table playing with her Lego, and is seen out in Roundhay Park in autumn with her mother. | |||
| HOLIDAY MEMORIES | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9589 | |||
| An assortment of holiday scenes. We see a group of people in a variety of situations. On the beach, in ornamental gardens, visiting tourist sights, on boat trips and having picnics. We see a show watched by a lot of spectators where men do comical dives into a pool, and then splash each other from rowing boats. We see a group of people cycling down the road on fun cycles that seat a few people hired from Butlins, they pass the Filey Butlins Holiday Camp. There are scenes from a farmhouse where some women feed hens, and countryside scenes of a Pickfords lorry with a very heavy load driving along the country roads. | |||
| [MRS WILSON GARDENING] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9592 | |||
| Mrs Wilson works in the garden while a little girl watches, we then see Mr Wilson brushing the garden path. | |||
| [CORNWALL; WEDDING RECEPTION; FAMILY IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9642 | |||
| A group of family and friends go on holidays to Cornwall where they spend time at the beach. The film cuts to friends and family arriving for a wedding reception, they pose for photographs outside the hotel. Guests throw confetti on the happy couple as they make their way to the wedding car. The film ends with brief shots of children helping with the gardening in the family garden. | |||
| [HOLIDAY SCENES IN CORNWALL] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9644 | |||
| Family and friends go on a group holiday to Cornwall where they visit the beach, go for walks and visit the Sloop Inn in St. Ives. | |||
| [BLACKPOOL ILLUMINATIONS AND LAKE DISTRICT] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9699 | |||
| The film opens with scenes from Blackpool Illuminations and then we see two men on a trip to the Lake District. We see them enjoying the countryside, views of boats on the lake, a visit to a local village and there are also fishing scenes. | |||
| [TRIP TO CANADA] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 10648 | |||
| On a trip to Canada, the group go on boat trips, play golf, see Niagara Falls and visit the beach. | |||
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