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| [WILDLIFE IN THE GARDEN; ZOO SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 6544 | |||
| Views of local wildlife in the garden, featuring frogs, rabbits and chickens. Shots of animals at Belle Vue Zoo conclude. | |||
| [THE PRESTON SCENE - 1950s] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 6548 | |||
| Scenes from the Mill Hill Ragged School annual outing to Fleetwood in 1950: gathering outside the school; playing bowls; on the sea front and races on the beach. Presidents's Day 1951 at Moor Park Conservative Club, featuring a bowls match and tea in a marque, followed by a prizegiving. The Preston Athletic Club's championship meeting on Haslam Park, views of a county cricket match between Lancashire and Glamorgan at West Cliff in Preston from 1952 and a Mayoral Procession through the City to the Public Hall conclude. | |||
| [JOYCE & ELAINE CROMPTON - EARLY SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 6815 | |||
| Scenes from the twin sisters Joyce and Elaine Crompton's early childhood in the living room at Back Gate Farm Westhoughton, where they are seen as babies, then toddlers and later as youngsters. Includes the Crompton and Boardman families sitting down to tea and sandwiches at Christmas. | |||
| BOWLING AT THE STAG AT WALTON | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8355 | |||
| A group of men play bowls on the bowling green at The Stag Inn pub in Warrington. Friends and family sit and watch the game. We see a shot of the trophy and two men checking the scorecards. | |||
| [FRANK AND MU VISIT WALES, LAKE DISTRICT AND DERBYSHIRE] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8363 | |||
| Compilation reel of Frank and Mu and friends visiting locations in the Lake District, Derbyshire and Wales. In the Lake District, the group take a boat trip out on lake Windermere. They walk around the area, take photographs and have some food in a restaurant. In Windermere, they stay at the Newby Bridge Hotel. They then go for a walk around Yew Tree Tarn. The film cuts to Bakewell, where they visit the Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop. In Llangollen, we see shots of Deeside cafe. They stay at the Chainbridge Hotel and later can be seen visiting Valle Crucis Abbey. They drive through Horseshoe Pass before stopping off at a roadside shop. The group stop off at John Brabin's Almshouses in Chipping. | |||
| [BLACKPOOL; SWANS AND DUCKS; SCHOOL GYMNASTICS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8413 | |||
| Compilation reel begins with brief shots of Blackpool promenade and Blackpool tower. The film ends with scenes from a school where some boys perform a gymnastics display outside. | |||
| [PICNIC ON THE MOORS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 9478 | |||
| A woman and two girls are seen out in the countryside, gathering twigs; family members and others enjoy a picnic out on the moors; children play, run around and eat apples; others walk down the hillside beside a small waterfall. | |||
| [HEYWOOD WHIT WALK 1] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 9481 | |||
| Scenes from Whit Walk in Heywood – procession, brass bands and children. | |||
| [HEYWOOD WHIT WALK 2] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 9482 | |||
| Scenes from Whit Walk in Heywood on wet day – procession, brass bands and children. | |||
| [STEAM TRAINS, WESHAM AND LOSTOCK HALL GOODS YARDS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11305 | |||
| A man loads up a car with children and a pram before driving away. Steam trains are seen in various locations, including Wesham goods yard and Lostock Hall - the 'graveyard of steam'. Rail enthusiasts stand on the tracks to watch the locomotives 'Oliver Cromwell' and 'Flying Scotsman' steam past. | |||
| [CROSS COUNTRY RACES] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11409 | |||
| Pupils of Bolton School prepare to start the cross country race followed by race scenes including the finish line. From another race we see pupils rounding a street corner on the way to the school. Barbara sat on the step with two cats and a toy tea set then a brief shot of a pig with suckling piglets. The film ends with pupils in costume doing drama on the playing field. | |||
| [HIGHLAND WALKING] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11426 | |||
| A group of Bolton School boys walk in the highlands of Scotland followed by views of the snow topped summit of Criffel. | |||
| [CROSS-COUNTRY RACE AND A WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11427 | |||
| Underexposed shots of the start of a Bolton School cross country race followed by race scenes and the teachers and pupils at the finish line. At a wedding, the bride and groom who is in a sailors uniform pose for photographs with their family and friends. The happy couple then depart the churchyard to get to their wedding car under a hail of confetti. | |||
| [SUNDAY SCHOOL PARADE] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11435 | |||
| A Whit Walk with a horse-drawn Sunday School banner and members of the clergy, choirboys, mothers and children holding bouquets of flowers. | |||
| [A STEAM ENGINE AT LITTLE MORETON HALL] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11462 | |||
| A dumper truck drives up a steep incline at a quarry. We then see the Foden Steam Wagon built in 1916 parked up at Little Moreton Hall. The driver puts coal in the boiler, oils the engine and makes other preparations before driving the loaded steam wagon down country lanes. | |||
| [GORTON SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 7875 | |||
| Large groups of family and friends sat in a beer garden of a lawn bowls club [Midland?] with an Essoldo cinema in the background. Underexposed shots of the bowls club interior, then a baby in a push chair in a park [Debdale?]. | |||
| [MANCHESTER AIRPORT AND MIDLAND HOTEL GORTON] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 7876 | |||
| A group of men board a Pan Am plane at Manchester's Ringway Airport, then after gross underexposed interiors we see groups of family and friends sat in a beer garden of a lawn bowls club [Midland?]. | |||
| INTO THE EGG-BOX | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8679 | |||
| This film looks at how eggs are produced, collected and distributed in Rainford. Beginning with shots of fluffy chickens at one day old, it records the various stages of their growth and how the eggs they produce are collected. There are scenes from Rainford Egg Packing Station Ltd at Muncaster Hall where we see the eggs weighed, boxed and distributed. | |||
| [AT THE BEACH] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8947 | |||
| A young boy plays with a dog at the beach. The Charnley children go for a walk in the countryside. Later they go for a boat ride around a lake. | |||
| [CHILDREN PLAYING] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 9520 | |||
| Five children and a man play in a garden with one of the children on a tricycle. | |||
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