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[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.
 
 
 
[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 several 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.
 
 
 
[RUGBY - RAIN STOPS PLAY]
Date: *1952 Film Number: 372
 
Wallasey Grammar School - rain stops a rugby match.
 
 
 
[GOLDEN JUBILEE - A BOAT]
Date: *1952 Film Number: 374
 
Wallasey Grammar School - shots of a boat; boys playing in the snow.
 
 
 
[GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL]
Date: *1952 Film Number: 658
 
Newsreel film featuring three items: a Cheshire walking race; a liner ablaze at Liverpool; and a football match featuring Preston North End v Wolverhampton.
 
 
 
BLACKPOOL'S PROGRESS
Date: c1952 Film Number: 958
 
A look at the development of the Blackpool tram, from the first electric tram in 1885 to the introduction of new tramcars in 1952, 'surpassing all other forms of public transport' - using stills, and shots of trams on the road and in the depot.
 
 
 
GALA DAY AT POULTON-LE-FYLDE 1952
Date: 1952 Film Number: 1036
 
Gala day at Poulton-le-Fylde - carnival procession including floats, morris dancers, people in fancy dress; the Rose Queen is crowned; maypole dancing.
 
 
 
RIVER IRWELL AND MANCHESTER DOCKS. SCALE MODEL EXPERIMENTS MADE IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, MARISCHAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Date: 1952 Film Number: 1063
 
Scale model experiments carried out in the engineering department of Marischal College, University of Aberdeen, to study the effect on the flow of water passing into Manchester and Salford Docks by the proposed widening of the River Irwell. Dye is injected into the model and its course followed, with flows of 10,000 15,000 and 20,000 cubic feet per second.
 
 
 
[BEHIND THE LOCK GATE]
Date: *1952 Film Number: 1069
 
Work in progress inside the lock at Eastham oil dock on the Manchester Ship Canal. A steel pile is moved by crane and laid on the dockside.
 
 
 
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