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Record 4346 – 4365 of 11241
 
 
BACK TO SCHOOL
Date: 1955 Film Number: 6468
 
Documentary film featuring school activities at Delamere Road Primary School in Flixton, with scenes in the playground and in the classroom. Also includes an excursion to Manchester Docks and along the Ship Canal, a school visit to an old people's home and children taking their cycling proficiency test.
 
 
 
NEVIN
Date: 1955 Film Number: 6475
 
Scenes from the Waller family holiday to Nevin in 1955, featuring views of the bay, playing on the beach and fun in rowing boats.
 
 
 
[WITH THE RAF IN GIBRALTAR]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 6588
 
Scenes of officers relaxing on the RAF base in Gibraltar featuring a day at the beach, a boat trip and watching a bullfight. The men enjoy a sightseeing tour around a town in North Africa and the squadron's planes are seen taking off and landing. Concludes with the group back at home base in Manchester drinking tea with some ladies, followed by a fly past by planes practising for an event to commemorate The Battle of Britain.
 
 
 
[AT THE CHAPEL: OPENING CEREMONY & OTHER SCENES]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 6672
 
Scenes from the opening ceremony of the new Stand Unitarian Chapel in 1955, featuring unlocking of the doors and members of the congregation arrriving for various services. Members of the chapel are seen assembling for a Whit Walk, followed by their procession into town and views of the Rose Queen and party in a garden. Concludes with a wedding service.
 
 
 
[TENBY & STAND UNITARIAN CHURCH LIFE]
Date: *1955 Film Number: 6694
 
Brief views of swimming and sightseeing in Tenby, followed by scenes from local events at Stand Unitarian Chapel including a visit from the mayor and mayoress, parades by girl guides and brownies and an audience with the Rose Queen.
 
 
 
[PAGEANT OF STORIES]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 6796
 
Scenes from a pageant at Golborne County Infants School in 1955 celebrating fairy tales and fables, including abridged performances of Cinderella, Snow White, Peter Pan and Hiawatha. Pupils are seen acting throughout in costume and relaxing together afterwards for the camera.
 
 
 
[ROWING, FLYING AND PANTO WEEK 1955]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 8654
 
The film starts with the "dental picnic" with groups of students rowing to the Red House Pub for drinks and a game of football. The next segment "Student Fliers" follows The University of Liverpool Air Squadron and showing them planning their routes, taking aviation classes and flying. The last section of the film shows the news items. With students showing off inventions and an event at the University of Liverpool Geoffrey Hughes Memorial Athletic Ground.
 
 
 
[MORTENSEN HOLIDAY ABROAD AND GARDEN SCENES]
Date: *1955 Film Number: 9160
 
Stan and Jean Mortensen go on holiday with friends. They drive over mountain roads to the beach. Beach scenes as Stan plays in the sea on a dinghy and Jean takes a cruise ship. Back home in the garden, Jean hangs out the washing and their son plays cricket and football.
 
 
 
SECOND DAFFODIL RALLY MARCH 1955
Date: 1955 Film Number: 8343
 
Crowds gather to watch and take part in the Warrington and District Motor Club rally. Officials can be seen checking cars prior to start of the rally, competitors gathered around vehicles and cars setting off at timed intervals. The cars make their way towards Jenkin Chapel, Cheshire. Shots filmed from a car dashboard as it drives along a snow covered roads. Time control near the Cat and Fiddle pub in Macclesfield. Test 2 at Blore involves reversing manoeuvres. Drivers stop for lunch in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. We join the drivers again in Harpur Hill for test 3 which includes making emergency stops at the bottom of a hill. The cars then head for the finish line. We see close ups of newspaper articles reporting on the event. The Daffodil cup winner was F. Snaylem. At the Lion Hotel, winners are presented their trophies.
 
 
 
[MISS JUNE RUTHERFORD'S WEDDING]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 8857
 
Scenes of June Rutherford's wedding at St. James' Church, New Brighton on New Years Day 1955. Family and friends arrive at the church and pose for photographs followed by the three bridesmaids who also pose for the cameras. The bride arrives by car with her father and they pose for the photographer. June and her husband exit the church, posing for the cameras together and with the wedding party.
 
 
 
[A WEDDING]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9294
 
The bride and groom with the rest of the wedding party stand outside the church posing for photographs then the happy couple pose by the wedding car brushing away the confetti from the bride's veil. Mrs Sagar and her two children Richard and Elizabeth are joined in a garden by two elderly women.
 
 
 
[SLEDGING]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9304
 
Richard, Elizabeth and Mrs Sagar sledging then the children pulling the sledges up a hill before sledging down again.
 
 
 
[BROOKLANDS GARDEN]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9306
 
Views of the flowerbeds in full bloom in the garden at Brooklands with Richard and Elizabeth sat on deckchairs. Two Dachshund dogs playing in the garden and the gardener at work, digging by the greenhouse
 
 
 
[HOLIDAY IN BUDE, CORNWALL]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9309
 
The Sagar family and friends boarding a pedal boat then Richard firing a toy gun at the camera. Two photographers taking photos of a model sat on the bow of the pedal boat then Mrs Sagar and friend sunbathing.
 
 
 
[CUTTING THE WEDDING CAKE]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9310
 
Elizabeth sat on her mother's knee showing her handbag to the camera with Richard and a dog. Richard sat on his mother's knee with Elizabeth waving. A man wearing a top hat smoking and playing with a doll. The bride and groom cutting the cake at a wedding reception with two child bridesmaids.
 
 
 
[ELIZABETH AND RICHARD SWIMMING]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9315
 
Beach scenes with a motorboat and a girl attempting to water-ski. Mrs Sagar sunbathing then Elizabeth and Richard swimming in the sea. The film ends with two women walking to the sea whilst being filmed on a cine camera by a man.
 
 
 
[IN A PEDAL BOAT]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9316
 
Mrs Sagar and friend walking up the beach are joined by a group of children with a girl handing out sweets. Mrs Sagar with Richard, Elizabeth and another child in a pedal boat waving to the camera.
 
 
 
[GOLF CLUB 1955]
Date: 1955 Film Number: 9845
 
The members of Oldham Golf Club, including George Pickford, are seen out on the golf course playing golf.
 
 
 
[IN THE INGHAM'S GARDEN]
Date: *1955 Film Number: 11425
 
A pan across the flowerbeds followed by a woman with a cat walking through the garden.
 
 
 
[WALMSELY'S LTD AND CYCLING SCENES]
Date: *1955 Film Number: 8220
 
Inside the Walmsley's Ltd factory in Bury, we see men working and close ups of the machinery in operation. The film cuts to street scenes where crowds of people are standing by and looking over the school wall where a bicycle rally is about to begin. School children with numbers on their backs line their bicycles up against the walls. The mayor can be seen leaving the school grounds. Shots of residential houses and of the children cycling through the streets as part of the cycle rally.
 
 
 
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