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Record 4072 – 4091 of 11529
| [GARDEN AND SNOW SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1953/4 Film Number: 4556 | |||
| Members of the Finch family and their friends are seen in the garden of a house on several different occasions - the adults admire the plants and flowers, and the children play with the dogs. The family are seen in fancy dress leaving the house and the same garden is seen covered in snow, with family members throwing snowballs at one another and clearing the paths. The family's quarry business in Parbold is also seen covered in snow. | |||
| MORECAMBE AND GRETNA GREEN 1953 | |||
| Date: 1953-4 Film Number: 7341 | |||
| Holiday scenes featuring the Joynson family. After a beauty pageant held at Morecambe open air pool, there is footage of a soap box derby, a trip to Gretna Green and holidays in the West Country, Llanberis and Conwy. Ends with shots of the small town of Ramsey in Cambridgeshire. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [VANESSA'S BATHTIME, PRESTWICH CARNIVAL AND SOUTHPORT, BOURNEMOUTH BEACH SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1953-54 Film Number: 6854 | |||
| Family scenes including Vanessa Moss at bathtime, celebrating her 2nd birthday, taking a walk in the garden and in her pram. Footage of Prestwich carnival procession shows a brass band marching along Scholes Lane with children and adults dressed in colourful and historical costumes. Judith is briefly seen posing in a veiled costume holding a collection box. Concludes with Moss family visits to Ainsdale beach, Southport and Bournemouth. | |||
| [A SUNNY GARDEN AND A TRIP TO CONWAY] | |||
| Date: *1953/4 Film Number: 10260 | |||
| A group of young people gather around a pond, before pairs of men and women take it in turn to saw through a tree trunk. In the garden, a programme of activities includes croquet and cricket and afternoon tea on the lawn, followed by dancing to a gramophone. The reel ends with three young women in Conway on a bleak day, looking around the castle and emerging from the ‘Smallest House in Great Britain’. | |||
| TOO DEEP FOR TEARS | |||
| Date: 1953-4 Film Number: 10927 | |||
| An amateur drama film produced by Altrincham Grammar School. The fiction film focuses on a friendship that develops between a wealthy disabled boy and a poor boy. | |||
| [SPEECH DAYS AT HOWELLS SCHOOL, DENBIGH] | |||
| Date: 1953-5 Film Number: 3795 | |||
| Footage of a speech day at Howell's School in Denbigh, Norfolk, held outdoors. Afterwards, there is a gymnastics display. | |||
| [CYCLING IN WALES, HIGH PEAK AND CHESHIRE] | |||
| Date: *1953-55 Film Number: 4026 | |||
| Manchester Wheelers Club members in Wales - arriving at the St Beauno Hotel in Clynnog. Members are seen looking at boats on the beach and sharing cigarettes in a church yard. A tandem is featured with both one and two riders. There is footage of a time-trial road cycle race and track racing, with motorcycles bringing the racers up to speed. Members play a bowling match at the Moss Rose Inn and there is footage of a cycle race starting and finishing in Hazel Grove, Stockport via High Peak. A hunt rides through a town - hounds and horses. | |||
| [HOPE PARK SPORTS DAY] | |||
| Date: *1953-5 Film Number: 4453 | |||
| Girls are seen practising the high jump and other events for Hope Park Girls' School (Prestwich) sports day. The sports day takes place on the Heys Boys' School playing field - number of races are seen, including one called 'the Rebecca,' where the girls race whilst balancing glasses on their heads. | |||
| [AUSTRIAN HOLIDAY; GARDEN SCENES; LAKE DISTRICT] | |||
| Date: *1953-5 Film Number: 4776 | |||
| Scenes from a group holiday to Austria visiting various locations including St Johann in Tirol, the mountains and Salzburg. Brief views of people in a large garden are followed by scenes in the Lake District - a group of young people are seen hiking and there are general views of the scenery. | |||
| WYRE ROAD | |||
| Date: c1954 Film Number: 4790 | |||
| Footage of sailing boats on a lake is followed by scenes of the Grime family on a fishing trip. Geoffrey and Jane Grime are seen with a lamb, and there are scenes of Geoffrey riding a pony in the countryside. A procession of circus elephants passes through Hexham village, and there are further views of Geoffrey riding and jumping. Footage of the TT races on the Isle of Man are followed by views of the ferry ride back to Fleetwood, and of the Grime family on a picnic and playing in the garden at home. | |||
| [HORSE RIDING AND PICNIC] | |||
| Date: c1954 Film Number: 6246 | |||
| Brief views of a large group of people horse riding and having a picnic - much of this reel is fogged. | |||
| [ST THOMAS' OLDHAM WHIT PROCESSION] | |||
| Date: c1954 Film Number: 6460 | |||
| A procession which includes clergy, parishioners and youth organisations from St Thomas and St Michael's churches (Werneth) parade along a suburban street, before walking through a set of gates towards camera. A brass band then lead the congregation in singing hymns in the churchyard and afterwards groups of worshippers are shown leaving or talking in small groups. Scenes from a fairground conclude, showing youths getting on and off various rides. | |||
| PORTUGAL | |||
| Date: *1953-5 Film Number: 6625 | |||
| Hugh and May Howorth journey around Portugal taking in views of Salamanca, Lisbon and Estoril. Scenes of winemaking are featured at WC Graham Winery in Oporto, including the picking and blending of grapes, wine tasting and barrel making. Ends with a fiesta in Viana and scenes of bullfighting at the Praca de Touros de Viana Docastelo. | |||
| [DUMPER TRUCKS] | |||
| Date: c1954 Film Number: 11461 | |||
| A compilation of various dumper trucks at work in quarries. We see them being loaded with rock, driving with their load and then dumping it. | |||
| [BELLE VUE AND DEBDALE PARK SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1954 Film Number: 7874 | |||
| People enjoying a carousel ride with Belle Vue's Aces Speedway stadium in the background. Views of various funfair rides and zoo animals in their caged enclosures. A young boy and his father on a boating lake then on various children's funfair rides. Debdale park, a women walks her dog, sail boats and school boy football. | |||
| [GORTON STREET SCENES, MIDLAND HOTEL AND A WHIT WALK] | |||
| Date: c1954 Film Number: 7877 | |||
| Underexposed shots of a butchers shop interior, nice street scenes in Gorton and a couple of dogs playing in the garden. After shots of the Midland Hotel, we see a royal drive past, through cheering and flag waving crowds lining Glencastle Road in Gorton. A Whit Walk with a Rose Queen and groups carrying religious banners. The film ends with a foreign holiday [Spain?] with views of the beach, gardens and locals. | |||
| [BOAT RALLY] | |||
| Date: c1954 Film Number: 12171 | |||
| The film begins with scenes from a boat rally along Lancaster Canal. Later the Dempsey family travel down the canal on their own boat. There are scenes inside the boat and of the passing scenery. They family stop to feed the swans and go fishing. We also see them eating their meals on the boat. The family arrive at Hest Bank where they take a walk around the village. | |||
| [LAKE DISTRICT SCENERY] | |||
| Date: *1953-5 Film Number: 8767 | |||
| Scenes in the Lake District shot over several years, mainly landscape views, though people occasionally feature, walking and picnicking on the hills, and a man is seen feeding a sheep. | |||
| [WELSH HOLIDAY AND NEWSHAM PARK SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1953-56 Film Number: 7353 | |||
| A countryside holiday in Wales and scenes in the Newsham Park area of Liverpool. Members of the Jones family are seen in the countryside and beside the coast, including at Bangor Pier. The children play on slides and roundabouts in a playground before there are snow scenes from Christmas 1953, with children sledging on Haverstock Road in Liverpool. Ends with the Jones children visiting Newsham Park and feeding the birds, interspersed with shots of the children with their grandparents on Haverstock Road and the girls scrubbing their front path clean. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [SAILING SCENES, ENGAGEMENT PARTY AND FAMILY DOGS] | |||
| Date: early-mid 1950s Film Number: 8867 | |||
| Sailing scenes in and around Poole Harbour, and an engagement party at the Dorning family home, where guests mingle and chat in the garden. The reel concludes with more garden scenes of a young Alsatian puppy, and Norma Dorning playing with an older dog. | |||
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