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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.
 
 
 
[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.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
[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.
 
 
 
[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.
 
 
 
CRUISE MEDITERRANEAN 1929 PART 2
Date: 1929 Film Number: 4565
 
Scenes from on board ship and shore locations during a Mediterranean cruise. Places visited include Venice, Dubrovnik and possibly the North African coast.
 
 
 
A DAY IN LIVERPOOL
Date: 1929 Film Number: 5604
 
Promotional film that aims to capture a day in the life of Liverpool. Workers arrive in the city by ferry and railway and rush to the offices and nearby docks. There are traffic scenes at Pier Head, by the Overhead Railway and on the Floating Roadway. Trade is highlighted with footage of cargo handling, cotton trading, and the import of livestock. There are shots of the docks and warehouses before the film moves on to the Grand National, shipbuilding at Birkenhead, vehicles on the transport ferry and seaside scenes at New Brighton. A White Star liner arrives in the port, there are views of the city's classical buildings and of a busy Church Street. After scenes of building work in the city, workers are shown returning home.
 
 
 
[PRINCE OF WALES; 1929 SCOUT JAMBOREE, ARROWE PARK]
Date: 1929 Film Number: 5790
 
Brief views of the Prince of Wales being driven along a crowd-lined street are followed by scenes at the 3rd World Scout Jamboree at Arrowe Park on the Wirral - views of the campsite and scouts march past the camera with banners declaring which part of the world they come from. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/
 
 
 
[COCKERMOUTH CARNIVAL - FLOATS]
Date: 1929 Film Number: 5934
 
Scenes from the carnival in Cockermouth, Cumbria on a rainy day in 1929. Spectators with umbrellas watch various floats passing by including children dancing, a blackfaced 'Hawaiian Troupe', cowboys, horses and dogs. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
[COCKERMOUTH CARNIVAL - FLOATS AND CARNIVAL QUEEN]
Date: 1929 Film Number: 5935
 
A rainy Cockermouth Carnival in 1929 - spectators with umbrellas watch floats passing by including children dancing, a blackfaced 'Hawaiian Troupe', cowboys, horses, people in fancy dress and the Carnival Queen. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
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