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| [SAILING SCENE] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 8891 | |||
| Starts with sailboats sailing beside each other, with shots of the shore in the background. Family are on the boat sailing talking to each other, camera focuses on the dog. Next various shots of sailing alongside another sailboat. Film ends focusing on a blowing sail. | |||
| [CATTLE DROVERS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11886 | |||
| Droving cattle from the farm yard shed, along country roads to their new home in a field followed by the drovers moving more cattle back to the farmyard The film ends with a young boy doing 'magic' with a disappearing Collie dog, a puppy and a rabbit. | |||
| [A CAR JOURNEY IN THE SNOW TO MACCLESFIELD] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 11887 | |||
| Moving deep snow on the farm with the aid of a tractor, the Collie dogs play in the snow and the ducks are released from their coop onto the snowy farm. Views of snowy country roads on a phantom car journey to Macclesfield. | |||
| [KINFAUNS CASTLE AND SCOTTISH SCENERY] | |||
| Date: c1950s Film Number: 5107 | |||
| Holiday film with scenes of Kinfauns Castle and its surroundings in Perthshire, Scotland. There are shots of boats moored on a loch, and of cottages in a village next to a loch. The film ends with footage of boats, including military ships, on a busy river. For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html | |||
| [ISOBEL WHITE AT WINDLESHAW CHANTRY AND BIRCHLEY HALL, ST HELENS] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 5565 | |||
| Isobel White walks around Windleshaw Chantry, looking at the graves. She walks under an arch. Inside Birchfield Hall's chapel, she looks at and handles a chalice, with a second person. She walks down steps around the building's exterior and there are shots of the building's exterior, including windows and bricked up windows, trees and foliage in the grounds. | |||
| [FFESTINIOG RAILWAY; LANCASHIRE TRAIN RIDE] | |||
| Date: 1950-60 Film Number: 4273 | |||
| Compilation reel relating to the Greenwoods' family - family members are seen out and about in the countryside and watching the steam train, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, in the station. Views of the Ffestiniog Mountain Railway, and Alf Langthorne is seen dismantling an Alvis car outside the family's soft-drinks business in Lydgate. Brief views of a family picnic, and scenes from a number of vintage car rallies and races. Views from the window of a train in Lancashire, passing through Whalley, Clitheroe and Chatburn, and a small boy is seen playing with a puppy outside the family's soft-drinks business, T Greenwood & Sons Ltd. | |||
| THE INTRUDER | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 5880 | |||
| Short amateur drama: two pairs of boys are camping in neighbouring fields and, after some belongings go missing, suspect each other of stealing. The boys start fighting, but come upon a third camp and discover the true "Intruder". They come together to confront him and throw the culprit into the lake as punishment. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [OPEN-TOP CAR, WEDDING AND FAMILY SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950s/c1962 Film Number: 6835 | |||
| Swift family at home with general scenes of baby being fed, children and adults relaxing in living room and playing outside posing for the camera. There are some shots of the family driving along in an an open-top car in the countryside. The compilation concludes with some colour footage of a family wedding. | |||
| [BLACKPOOL & WEDDING] + TODAY AND EVERYDAY | |||
| Date: c1950-1965 Film Number: 2599 | |||
| Film of people swimming and playing in an open-air swimming pool. They are later seen on a packed beach at Blackpool with the Tower in the background. There are shots of various shops and attractions in the town. A bride and groom exit a church, and there are scenes at a cottage in the countryside. The final section shows dramatised footage of an ambulance in action. | |||
| [WEDDINGS IN ROCHDALE] | |||
| Date: 1950s 1960s Film Number: 4053 | |||
| Footage from eight different weddings in Rochdale. Wedding parties are shown arriving and leaving the various churches, guests throw confetti, brides and grooms are seen leaving in their wedding cars. | |||
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| [PLANTS AND POTTING] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 4369 | |||
| Men are seen in front of vases full of prize winning chrysanthemums. Another man is seen in a greenhouse potting seedlings. There are close-ups of the seedling trays and the seedlings in their new pots. | |||
| [DEMOLITION & CONSTRUCTION; WINTER SCENES; FLOODS] | |||
| Date: 1950s & 1960s Film Number: 6804 | |||
| Scenes from the building of a garage at Hulton Park Cottage in Westhoughton followed by the demolition of an old house, during which Alan Boardman is seen throwing down slates from a roof and dismantling walls with a crowbar. Ends with views of deep snowdrifts in the countryside and swollen rivers and becks around Westhoughton. | |||
| [CLARENCE MILL] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 11130 | |||
| Bill Jones and D Worthington jokingly usher the cameraman into Clarence Mill. | |||
| [CLARENCE MILL CHIMNEY ] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 11131 | |||
| Camera tilts down the length of the chimney at Clarence Mill. | |||
| [WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 9867 | |||
| Guests can be seen arriving at a church for a wedding. The bridesmaids arrive soon followed by the bride. The film cuts to after the service when the newlyweds pose for photographs outside the church. They then make their way to the wedding car whilst guests throw confetti on them. | |||
| [VISIT TO THE LAKE DISTRICT] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 9868 | |||
| The film opens with shots of a couple going for a walk in the countryside near Bowness-on-Windermere. They then go for a cruise on lake Windermere followed by a visit to see Wordsworth's cottage. In Ambleside, they visit the market and look around the different stalls. The group visit Cartmel where they look around the Priory Church of St Mary. The film ends with a brief shot of the beach in Bootle. | |||
| [RIGBY'S BUNGALOW AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 10481 | |||
| Underexposed people in the countryside followed by a woman walking in a formal garden of a large house. Views of the Arnside estuary in Cumbria with mountains and hills in the distance. A man [Rigby?] digging turf in a overgrown garden then scenes with a man, two women and a small dog in the garden at Rigby's bungalow. The film end with a look at the other houses near the bungalow. | |||
| WANDERINGS IN LAKELAND | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 11088 | |||
| Views from a moving car on the road to Keswick followed by cattle and sheep in the fields and scenic views of the mountains and lakes. A group of men and their fox hounds in front of the Kirkstile Inn in Loweswater near Cockermouth and sailing boats on a lake. Snowy scenes with children building a snowman and a young boy learning to ski then a group of adults enjoying a game of curling on a frozen pond. In Springtime we have snowdrops in bloom, swans nesting on their eggs and a young boy collecting tadpoles. After a woman feeding her chickens we have beach scenes with 3 women sat in the dunes holding seabird chicks. The film ends with motorcross races from the Whitehaven Motor Club. | |||
| [WANDERING IN LAKELAND - SUMMER AND AUTUMN] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 11089 | |||
| Views from a car on a country road, flowers in a garden and views of a lake. After a close up of an ants nest a man swims in a lake and sits by a waterfall. Driving on the Hardknott Pass, the steepest road in England then a young girl bottle feeds a lamb. Scuba divers getting ready then swimming in a lake followed by scenic views of the lakes and a women painting a street scene. A group of hikers in the hills and climbing the Bowder Stone are followed by piglets in a muddy field. After motorcross we see a miniature steam railway carrying many happy passengers followed by a man rock climbing. The film ends with Autumnal scenes with the trees shedding their leaves and pheasants in the long grass. | |||
| [WALKING DAYS; BUTLINS; IN THE GARDEN AT HOME] | |||
| Date: 1950s/60s Film Number: 11280 | |||
| Family trip to the beach, children play in the sand. The family go on holidays to Butlin's Pwllheli - lots of shots of the holiday camp and activities including a fancy dress competition. Back at home in the garden the children play together. Throughout the reel the film cuts to and from scenes of Hollies Convent School Whit Walks, and the children practicing and preparing for the processions in the garden. The younger sister helps to hang the clothes on the washing line. | |||
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