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| LOOK WHERE YOUR'E GOING! (sic) | |||
| Date: c1950s Film Number: 1775 | |||
| Film to promote a road safety code amongst children. A recurring theme is the code written out in a child's cap lining. The cricketer Alec Bedser and a monkey are employed to further illustrate the road safety message. A child ,'Christopher Careful', is seen on a bicycle and at school. There is footage taken at a cricket match, traffic is seen as is a zebra, a zebra crossing, a lollipop and a belisha beacon. | |||
| [SCOTTISH DANCING DISPLAY AT SCHOOL] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 5013 | |||
| Girls dressed in tartan outfits leave Emmanuel School building and perform a Scottish dancing display, accompanied by a man in a kilt playing bagpipes. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [NOLAN WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1950s Film Number: 6271 | |||
| A wedding party including a bride and groom, bridesmaids and guests are seen arriving at a church in Salford. The wedding car is seen and boy scouts are present. | |||
| [GARDENS, PARKS, WEDDINGS AND A BEAUTY CONTEST] | |||
| Date: early 1950s - mid 1960s Film Number: 8714 | |||
| A compilation of footage from around the North West, including scenes in a Blackley suburban garden; Little Moreton Hall and Lyme Park; weddings; and an outdoor fete with added beauty contest. The reel ends with a procession of adults and children in historical costume, perhaps to celebrate the anniversary of a town's charter. | |||
| [ROYAL VISIT, WHIT WALK & TRIP TO FLEETWOOD] | |||
| Date: *1951-3/59/64/8 Film Number: 6665 | |||
| Views of schoolchildren stood by the roadside in Whitefield for a royal visit, followed by the Union Jack being flown half mast and then raised again at the Alfred E West Factory, for the death of George VI. A Stand Unitarian Sunday School Whit Procession continues, with a disabled persons coach trip to Fleetwood featuring archery, tea and sightseeing to conclude. | |||
| [FREE GREEN FARM - MILKING SHED AND DEMOLITION SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1951-56 Film Number: 1579 | |||
| Further farming scenes from Free Green Farm near Knutsford. Features people working in fields, the interior of the milking shed, snow scenes and the demolition of farm buildings | |||
| [FRANK STRINGER AND SON LTD STAFF DAYS OUT] | |||
| Date: 1951-3 Film Number: 8382 | |||
| June 1953, the staff of Frank Stringer and Son Ltd boarding a coach to Blackpool. The trip was part of the 1953 Coronation celebrations. They stop off at a café on the way. Once in Blackpool they walk around, ride the rollercoaster and ghost train. May 1951, the Frank Stringer and Son Ltd festival party was held in Llandudno. The staff members are seen arriving at the Old Deanery Hotel. They sit out on the ground of the hotel for refreshments. | |||
| [LIVERPOOL, FUNFAIR, CHRISTMAS AND COUNTRYSIDE] | |||
| Date: *1951/3/4 Film Number: 10256 | |||
| Compilation reel of Taylor family domestic and leisure scenes. Family members enjoy fairground rides, and visits to the countryside. There are brief scenes in Liverpool city centre, family and friends in the garden, and camping scenes, with girls preparing food outdoors and cooking. At Christmas, family members sit by the fire and open presents; they also play games and musical instruments; a later scene sees several young women singing. There is a firework display, and winter scenes, with children out and about with their sledges. | |||
| [UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL] | |||
| Date: *1951/4 Film Number: 659 | |||
| Newsreel film featuring two North-West items: a new tanker the 'World Concorde' launched by Earl and Countess Mountbatten at Barrow launched in early February 1952; and motor racing at Aintree. | |||
| [RUSHES - QEII DOCK WASTE] | |||
| Date: *1951/54 Film Number: 1124 | |||
| Constructing the Eastham oil dock - use of conveyor belts on site. Model experiment - a tanker enters a lock. | |||
| [SUNDAY SCHOOL AND CARNIVAL PARADES] | |||
| Date: *1951/4 Film Number: 11410 | |||
| A Whitsuntide walk with Sunday School banners, mothers, children and clergymen marching on country roads and past the Horse Shoe Inn. A carnival parade led by marching pipers, children in Highland dress and a float decked out in Union flags and bunting. The film ends with a Rose Queen being crowned on a stage. | |||
| [THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II OIL DOCK] | |||
| Date: *1951/54 Film Number: 1123 | |||
| A look at the pipelines and storage tanks of the Queen Elizabeth II oil dock; tankers in dock. The Port of Manchester container terminal - large dockside cranes; containers stacked on dockside. | |||
| [SPORT AND LEISURE] | |||
| Date: *1951/54-5 Film Number: 352 | |||
| Boys of Wallasey Grammar School - playing rugby; at the sea-side; cross country running; trophies; cricket; tennis; rowing; swimming; rounders. Also, a visit to a castle, and modelling new blazers. | |||
| [WINTER SCENES AND FAMILY FUN] | |||
| Date: *1951/55 Film Number: 1639 | |||
| Compilation reel containing footage of the Hardman family watching a firework display; playing on the beach at St Annes and enjoying a fancy dress performance put on by the children at Christmas. Further footage includes winter scenes of a suburban street with people trudging through the snow, trying to deliver milk and papers. | |||
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| [ATHLETICS AND BOXING] | |||
| Date: *1951/56 Film Number: 11434 | |||
| Pupils of Bolton School Running around a race track then the runners as a group followed by sixth form pupils and their teachers posing for a formal photograph. The film ends with scenes from a boxing match watched by a large crowd of pupils and teachers. | |||
| BLACKBURN CENTENARY TRADE PROCESSION 1951 | |||
| Date: 1951/6/8 Film Number: 4225 | |||
| Scenes from the Blackburn Centenary Trade Procession - various different bands are seen, as well as people in fancy dress and a number of floats, including Blackburn Photographic Society and Blackburn Public Libraries. Scenes taken from the television of St Alban's Church, as well as exterior views of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. Bishop Beck is seen at the foundation-stone laying ceremony for a new church in 1958 and there are shots from several Whit Walks. The film ends with an open-air service at the Church of the English Martyrs, Whalley, 1956. | |||
| ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST | |||
| Date: *1951/6/60/3 Film Number: 5448 | |||
| Rose family holiday showing various places of interest along the Yorkshire coast such as Scarborough, Whitby and Bridlington. Particular attention is paid to seveeral sea fronts and the attractions on display there, as well as local historical places of interest such as Fountains Abbey near Ripon. | |||
| PRESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY GUILD TABLEAU | |||
| Date: 1952 Film Number: 32 | |||
| The 1952 Preston Guild procession, led by a tableau depicting the handing of the charter to the Mayor of Preston in 1328. | |||
| PRESTON GUILD MERCHANT 1952 | |||
| Date: 1952 Film Number: 54 | |||
| The opening scenes are of a sports event, followed by shots of the streets decorated for the procession. The Guild Freemen are called to Preston Parish Church, then there is a procession of the 20,000 members of the Church of England. The Roman Catholic procession is the following day. | |||
| SCHOOL NEWSREEL [1952] | |||
| Date: 1952 Film Number: 351 | |||
| Wallasey Grammar School boys - sports activities, rugby, rowing, cricket and discus. Also fruit picking and on the farm. | |||
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