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| [FAMILY PICNIC AND TENNIS] | |||
| Date: c1927 Film Number: 5008 | |||
| Family group eating a picnic on rocks. Then switches to scenes at a tennis club where several games are underway. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| A DAY IN THE LIFE OF BOLTON | |||
| Date: c1927 Film Number: 5963 | |||
| The first of a proposed Lancashire Town Series of films made by First National Pathe, detailing scenes of daily life in Bolton. Featuring footage of primarily female workers arriving for work at a large cotton mill, children at the Oxford Grove School, the police force directing traffic and firemen at work. Male workers are seen leaving the iron and steel works and there are views of the town's busy streets and the Town Hall. A society wedding, the Annual Police Sports day and junior boxing bring the film to an end. Sponsored by Lewis's of Manchester department store. | |||
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| [PRESCOT PARISH CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL ANNUAL FIELD DAY; 'PERRYING'] | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 6462 | |||
| Scenes from Sunday School Processions - both Protestant and Catholic - in Prescot, with various schools, groups and bands passing in front of the camera on route to Knowsley Park. There are scenes of Prescot Court Leet passing through the streets and of the tradition of "perrying" where heated coins were thrown from the Town Hall to the crowds of people assembled outside. The film ends with Court officials tasting the ale at the Deane's House Hotel. | |||
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| [FAMILY WITH DOGS, PLAYING WITH BAT AND BALL AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1927 Film Number: 8142 | |||
| A compilation of family scenes. We see the family in the garden with a variety of pet dogs, one is dressed as a flower. The adults play with bat and balls attached with elastic. Brief shots of two people at sea in a small boat. There is a cross country car rally. A woman and a little girl ride ponies. There is a gathering of people sat on a beach. There are scenes of a biplane taking off and landing. Boys ride ponies in a field and over a hand held jump. A boy plays cricket in the garden and a boy and girl wearing bathing costumes have fun in the garden getting wet from water sprayed from a hose pipe. | |||
| [JOURNEY TO GURNIGEL] | |||
| Date: c1927-8 Film Number: 10849 | |||
| The films opens with scenes of trains and crowds of people in a railway station. There are brief shots taken from the window of a moving train and the ferry. We then see scenes out on a mountain road from a moving vehicle. We see passing horses and carts, horse-drawn carriages and sledges. The film ends with scenes from an ice hockey game. | |||
| [BLAKE FAMILY COMPILATION] | |||
| Date: 1926-34 Film Number: 9952 | |||
| A compilation of scenes from the Blake family. We see a man and a woman approach a biplane, they get in to the plane and the plane is filmed taking off and flying. A man attempts, unsuccessfully, to walk through snow on skis. A group of young people get a car going and are filmed driving along, some of them stood on the outside step of the car. There are shots of groups of village children, they are filmed playing outside and standing by their homes. We see the family sawing and chopping wood. Groups of young people enjoy themselves swimming in lakes and rivers, we also see them sat in a garden being served tea by a maid. There are holiday scenes which include a bullfighting match. We also see a large group of young local men on the beach. One of them performs acrobatics on some acrobatic rings, and some of the family members unsuccessfully attempt to have a go at it too. The family are later seen at a pool diving in from a diving board. The film concludes with harbour scenes, and we see a variety of boats sail off to sea. | |||
| [WILLIAMS FAMILY IN THEIR GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1926-1934 Film Number: 5511 | |||
| Footage of the Williamson family in their large back garden, with a particular emphasis on the children of the family having fun on the swing. | |||
| [WOODLANDS SCHOOL SPORTS 1926; SS ST SILIO, LLANDUDNO 1936; EMPIRE AIR DAY 1937; MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY SHROVE] | |||
| Date: 1926-38 Film Number: 8406 | |||
| At the Woodlands School sports day, students and staff take part in a variety of races and games such as hurdles and wheelbarrow races. In Llandudno, passengers travel on the steamship St Silio. During Empire Air Day 1937, crowds gather to watch a Royal Air Force display at the MOD Sealand base. In the next scene students from Manchester University decorate a float and take part in the Shrove Tuesday Rag parade. Crowds gather to watch the parade which includes various floats and people in fancy dress. At St. George's Home for waifs and strays, a garden fete is held. Stalls and games are set up in the garden for the children and guests to enjoy. The boys of the school perform a gym display for the crowd. The film ends with some of the adults and their dogs taking part in the dog races. | |||
| [BUILDING SANDCASTLES] | |||
| Date: 1926/8 Film Number: 8451 | |||
| The Gee family enjoy a roadside picnic sat at the rear of the family car. On the beach the Gee children build sandcastles and paddle in the sea. | |||
| REFUSE DISPOSAL PLANT FOR SEPARATION, INCINERATION AND SALVAGE OF HOUSEHOLD REFUSE AT WATER ST DEPOT MANCHESTER. PLANT BY PETRIE AND MCNAUGHT LTD. ROCHDALE | |||
| Date: *1926/30 Film Number: 1549 | |||
| Refuse is seen arriving in dust carts at Water Street Refuse Disposal Plant in Manchester, it is unloaded into hoppers and drawn away by automatic elevators. The refuse is hand sorted as it passes on a conveyer belt. Cans are seen being crushed and baled for sale and dust and cinders being loaded into barges and horse-drawn carts via chutes. The film closes with the incinerator being raked over by workers. | |||
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| [CAR AT TATTON HALL] | |||
| Date: *1926/35 Film Number: 723 | |||
| Lord Egerton is seen driving a car in the courtyard of Tatton Hall; general views of the house and grounds. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| ARMISTICE DAY 1927 | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 8 | |||
| A procession and wreath laying ceremony are held at the Cenotaph in Liverpool. Similar scenes show crowds in Hyde Park singing, and the Prince of Wales leading a torchlight procession to the Cenotaph in London. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| STALYBRIDGE WAKES 1927 | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 9 | |||
| At Stalybridge,the camera pans slowly across a crowded station platform showing families gathered to wait for the train to Blackpool. The train pulls in then leaves with them on board and waving. The railway staff pose for the camera. The New Prince's Cinema is shown with children queuing outside and the film finishes with a shot of the cinema staff. | |||
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| [CUNARD FROM CANADA] | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 56 | |||
| Passengers and luggage arrive at the harbour in Montreal - a steamer leaves the dock, going under the New Harbour Bridge. The passengers are shown posing on deck, taking refreshments and playing tennis. Views of Quebec are followed by a tour of the ship showing the crew at work in the engine rooms, galleys, print-shop, and in taking navigational readings. The coast line of Britain is seen. | |||
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| CROMPTON CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 70 | |||
| Samuel Crompton's centenary celebrations in Bolton. Shots of Crompton's birth place, and his original spinning machine. A tree planting ceremony by representatives of 15 countries. A procession to the Crompton Monument, and placing of wreaths there. A procession of children at Burnden Stadium. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| [THE WEDDING OF SIR FREDERICK HINDLE AT LYTHAM] | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 272 | |||
| Shots of the couple and guests at Sir Frederick Hindle's wedding at Lytham. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| GREAT FLOWER SHOW, SOUTHPORT 1927 | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 286 | |||
| Scenes at Southport Flower Show with many features, including water and rock gardens, a Japanese garden, topiary work, show-jumping and sheep dog trials. The walkways are crowded with visitors who include Mr. Cook, the King's gardener. | |||
| OVER & OVER! | |||
| Date: *1927 Film Number: 541 | |||
| A dance demonstration by the Apache Speciality Dancer, Miss Constance Evans - some slow motion sequences. | |||
| [FISHER FAMILY 1] | |||
| Date: 1927 Film Number: 749 | |||
| Scenes in the gardens of Fulshaw Hall and Green Hall, Wilmslow - picking flowers; children playing; a family group walking around the extensive grounds. | |||
| [A VISIT TO THE FACTORY] | |||
| Date: c1927 Film Number: 962 | |||
| The visitor is welcomed by a group of people, including the Mayor; they tour the factory floor and examine various products - a vacuum cleaner is demonstrated. | |||
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