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[VISIT TO GRANADA]
Date: c1930-5 Film Number: 10841
 
We see scenes of city streets and traffic. A group of children pose for the camera and then there are scenes from the Alhambra Palace.
 
 
 
[THE GLYPTOTHEK MUSUEM AND SCENES FROM THE ENGLISH GARDEN]
Date: c1930-5 Film Number: 10842
 
Scenes from Munich. The camera pans around the neoclassical buildings of the Glyptothek Museum. We see people eating ice cream and then there are views from 'The English Garden'.
 
 
 
[VISIT TO THE ALHAMBRA PALACE]
Date: c1930-5 Film Number: 10843
 
Scenes from the Alhambra Palace. We see shots of the palace and gardens.
 
 
 
[SCENES FROM AROUND THE ALHAMBRA PALACE]
Date: c1930-5 Film Number: 10844
 
The film opens with views of the local rural area and people before we see shots of the Alhambra Palace and surrounding scenery.
 
 
 
[SPANISH STREET SCENES AND MARKET]
Date: c1930-5 Film Number: 10845
 
Scenes from Spain. We see local street scenes, including a heavily laden donkey and horse-drawn carts. There are landscape scenes shot from a moving vehicle and then shots of a market.
 
 
 
[PENDLE FOREST HARRIERS; POINT TO POINT & XMAS MEET]
Date: 1929/32 Film Number: 11295
 
Point to point horses preparing for the race then jumping over fences with large crowds of spectators followed by more race scenes. The Pendle Forest Harriers fox hunting Christmas meet begins with the hounds in front of a large country house followed by men, woman and children riding out for the hunt.
 
 
 
[BIRTWISTLE FAMILY - BILLINGE SCAR NO. 1]
Date: *1929/32/39 Film Number: 237
 
Amateur footage - opens with a party on board a yacht and shows a bay, and other vessels. There are scenes at Billinge Scar, in the grounds, in front of and inside the house, on the tennis court and in the swimming pool, with family and guests. A group of businessmen are seen on the deck of a cargo ship which is unloaded of a cargo of cotton bales by dockers and cranes. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
SALFORD HISTORICAL PAGEANT AND CHARTER CELEBRATIONS
Date: 1930 Film Number: 27
 
Shots of Salford decorated. The pageant features scenes of the Romans, Alfred the Great, Robin Hood, John of Gaunt, Guy Fawkes, the Civil War, and hardship in the mills. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
[CARNIVAL AT SOUTHPORT]
Date: c1930 Film Number: 52
 
A procession, including floats and a brass band goes by. Various events of the carnival follow: a race, women dancing, Scottish dancing, people dressed as sailors, etc.
 
 
 
HER DRESS ALLOWANCE
Date: 1930 Film Number: 187
 
A fiction film to advertise the CWS. A husband and wife argue at breakfast about her dress allowance. Later she visits her friend May and sees that she has bought lots of new clothes for herself and things for the house; May explains that this is due to CWS. Scenes of production at a CWS factory: warp-making by hand, machines for winding, making the warp, drawing and weaving. Clothes being made up. Reel 2: May explaining to the other woman. Twelve months later, she also has lots of new things in the house. Her husband comes in and scolds her for extravagance, but she explains that she is a shareholder in the CWS and so gets a discount on purchases. More shots of women at work in the mill, using sewing machines. Cut back to the couple making up with a kiss. 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/ [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
THE CUP THAT CHEERS
Date: c1930 Film Number: 197
 
A publicity film for CWS tea - first there is a slightly humorous historical view of tea drinking, followed by sequences showing modern tea production from import and blending to packing and despatch. In a Co-op store, a woman buys some tea which she subsequently serves to a friend in her drawing room.
 
 
 
A WATERGROVE INSPECTION
Date: c1930 Film Number: 208
 
An inspection party examines the reservoir and building site.
 
 
 
THE INFIRMARY CARNIVAL
Date: c1930 Film Number: 210
 
Rochdale Infirmary Carnival - a parade of people in fancy dress, bands, floats, majorettes etc.
 
 
 
WATERLOO CUP
Date: *1930 Film Number: 289
 
Scenes at the Waterloo Cup hare coursing event at Altcar, Lancashire - crowds arriving, greyhounds chasing hares, and the winner "Church Street" with his handler.
 
 
 
[LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE, LIVERPOOL]
Date: c1930's Film Number: 298
 
The Mayor taps the foundation stone into place and places something inside - a "time capsule?" - a glass container.
 
 
 
LANCASHIRE CINEMATOGRAPH TRADE "OLD BOYS" PAY HOMAGE TO THE MEMORY OF THEIR FALLEN COMRADES
Date: c1930 Film Number: 304
 
The "Old Boys" march along Whitehall and lay a wreath at the Cenotaph before boarding buses to leave.
 
 
 
RAILWAY CENTENARY AT LIVERPOOL
Date: 1930 Film Number: 308
 
Light hearted historical tableau of ancient forms of transport followed by shots of early steam trains and carriages taking visitors on trips. (Sound effects only, no commentary).
 
 
 
THE RIVER RIBBLE FROM ITS SOURCE TO THE SEA
Date: c1930s Film Number: 382
 
Preston and the River Ribble. Shots of the town, a Whit walk, and Avenham Park. 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/ [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
FACES WELL KNOWN IN PRESTON
Date: c1930s Film Number: 383
 
Various individuals in the streets in Preston; at a tennis club; and colour "portraits" of a number of people in evening dress.
 
 
 
[PRESTON ACTIVITIES]
Date: c1930s Film Number: 385
 
Local scenes - Avenham Park; street scenes; cows in a field; and various scenes of people (family?) posing at the tennis club, in a garden, and on a beach. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
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