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| [PRESTON FAMILY HOLIDAY IN BOURNEMOUTH] | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 1908 | |||
| Members of the Preston family on holiday in Bournemouth. A steam ferry departs from a busy dock. Holiday makers are seen walking through the town centre - includes views from the top of a tram. Mr and Mrs Preston are seen relaxing on the beach with the rest of the family, outside their beach hut. | |||
| TYNEMOUTH BATHING POOL | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 1911 | |||
| The Preston family, from Stockport, on holiday in Tynemouth; North Shields; Saltburn and Llandudno. They are seen playing in the sea, relaxing outside a beach hut and visiting an open air swimming pool. Also includes shots of a train standing in a railway station and various shipping vessels on the River Tyne. | |||
| PART 2 LLANDUDNO | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 1912 | |||
| The Preston family, from Stockport, on holiday in Llandudno and Bournemouth. They are seen carrying deck chairs and an inflatable horse down to the sea, where they sunbathe and play on the beach. Mr and Mrs Joshua Preston are also seen boarding a ferry. | |||
| AND THE MOST SUCCESSFUL STOCKPORT CARNIVAL | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 1925 | |||
| Various scenes of the Stockport Carnival parade in 1929. The procession of decorated vehicles and fancy dress competitors make their way through the streets to the carnival show ground. Mr Joshua Preston, Mayor of Stockport, delivers a speech and the Mayoress, Miss M. G. Preston crowns the carnival queen. | |||
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| WIGAN CARNIVAL | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 1982 | |||
| Scenes from Wigan Carnival in July 1929. Brief views of a brass band, followed by "Wigan on Wheels Pageant," a procession along Wallgate Street featuring numerous horse-drawn vehicles, bicycles (including a "bone-shaker") and carnival floats. Many of the participants are in fancy dress, and others collect money from the watching crowds. The film ends with views of the fun fair at Bull Hey, showing the different rides and stalls, including a merry-go-round and a Test-Your-Strength machine. | |||
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| [BARNARD CASTLE; MARCH 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2106 | |||
| Various scenes of the Behrens family, and friends, during their stay at Barnard Castle; March 1929. Includes footage of the children playing in the back garden. Mr Behrens stands up on a see-saw, balancing himself and another child in the middle. The other two girls stand either end, rocking the see-saw backwards and forwards. Also features Mrs Behrens dressed up in an elaborate chinese costume. She twirls around in the middle of the garden and is joined by the three girls, who are also seen wearing chinese style clothing. Concludes with shots of the family walking through a wood. | |||
| [DUNHAM PARK; MARCH 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2107 | |||
| Members of the Behrens family are seen walking through the grounds of Dunham Park on the 2nd March 1929. Also includes footage of the family standing outside their house, 'Holly Royde', in Withington. | |||
| [DROITWICH; MAY 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2108 | |||
| Mr and Mrs Behrens are seen walking around the grounds of a stately home in Droitwich; May 1929. Also includes shots of them sat outside an old country building, probably an hotel or restaurant, drinking tea. | |||
| [FATHER AND MOTHER; JUNE 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2109 | |||
| An elderly couple, Mr and Mrs Behrens, are seen walking down the steps of their house 'Holly Royde' in Withington; June 1929. They are also seen sitting on a bench and walking around the garden. | |||
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| [SS ULYSSES; JULY 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2110 | |||
| Scenes on board SS Ulysses; July 1929. Passengers are seen socialising with each other and playing various deck games. A group are ferried across the water in a small motor boat to a landing jetty on Skomer. They are seen having a picnic before returning to the steamship. Concludes with shots of some seamen winching a small boat out of the sea and on to the deck. | |||
| [BEHREN FAMILY HOLIDAYS; AUGUST 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2111 | |||
| Members of the Behrens family on holiday in Skerries; August 1929. Opens on a shot of some swimmers being dragged along through the water, behind a rowing boat full of people. Includes scenes of the family and their friends relaxing on a stony, isolated beach. The children are seen paddling and playing at the waters edge. One of the little girls, Ruth Behrens, is shown being taught how to swim in the sea by her mother. | |||
| [BEHRENS FAMILY; HOLE IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2112 | |||
| Mary and Ruth Behrens are seen playing in the garden with their mother and father. The two young girls take it in turns to jump on to a high mound of soil in the middle of a large hole. The adults join in the fun by linking hands with children and pulling against them to try and make them topple over. At the end of the film they all take it in turns to jump over the hole. | |||
| [GARDEN - BEHRENS FAMILY] | |||
| Date: c1929 Film Number: 2152 | |||
| Two young girls, Mary and Ruth Behrens, are seen digging a hole in a garden. | |||
| CHESTER - GLORIES OF ENGLAND SERIES NO 306 | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 2549 | |||
| Scenes around Chester. Includes footage of the cathedral, river and walls. | |||
| THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2759 | |||
| Film of the staff and students at the Manchester School of Art. There are brief sequences of pupils painting at easels and drawing in a field. Groups of pupils are also seen milling around in the grounds of the School of Art. The majority of the footage consists of members of staff featured individually or with a colleague - they are introduced by captions. Many of the members of staff pull faces for the camera and pose, one is seen pretending to be a fashion model on a catwalk, in a large coat and a hat. Others pose with a dustbin lid and a broom or strike poses usually associated with bodybuilders. The closing sequence features trick photography with the film's producer Mr G H Higginson appearing to stand next to himself. | |||
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| AT LLANFAIRFECHAN 1929 | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 2767 | |||
| Film of the Higginson family's holiday to Llanfairfechan, Wales. Features Derek and Sylvia Higginson as young children playing in a garden and on a beach. Derek is also seen in a pushchair and Sylvia being supervised by her mother by the sea. Various adults are seen relaxing. The two children play in the sea with buckets. | |||
| SCHOOL | |||
| Date: *1929 Film Number: 2867 | |||
| Activities at Bolton School nursery department, Beech House. Children have lessons, in the classroom and outside. They are also seen playing, painting, taking refreshments and going home. | |||
| [GARDEN AND LAKELAND SCENES 2] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 3229 | |||
| There is footage of people digging in the garden of Broomfield, the Simon family home, followed by mowing the lawn. After some shots of Ernest and Shena Simon playing tennis, there are then scenes of two old men building a dry stone wall in Langdale in the Lake District. Following scenes of a car being driven by the Simon's daughter Antonia, Shena and her son Roger are seen playing quoits. | |||
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| [REMEMBRANCE DAY 1929] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 3558 | |||
| Scenes shot on Remembrance Sunday in Stockport 1929: an old man is seen giving a donation to women collecting for remembrance charities, and a procession is seen walking along Wellington Road South in the rain. Buses and trams pass by a uniformed brass band, and two army officers carry a large wreath. Various civic dignitaries are seen entering the town hall and a poster is seen bearing the words "wear your poppy". Rows of firemen are seen standing to attention as the clock reaches 10am. | |||
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| [SHEEPDOGS; SCOTLAND; TENNIS] | |||
| Date: 1929 Film Number: 4001 | |||
| Assorted children and their nannies in the garden, feeding the chickens. Sheepdogs herding sheep across a field. Scenes in Scotland and at an Abbey. Final scenes of a group of adults trying to play tennis. | |||
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