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Record 7176 – 7195 of 11241
| [ANGLESEY, CHESTER ZOO AND COCKERHAM ROSE QUEEN] | |||
| Date: 1966/7/9 Film Number: 7267 | |||
| The Lloyd family on holiday, visiting the zoo and at the Cockerham Rose Queen ceremony. Opens with Barbara, Caroline and Dylan inspecting a hedgehog before there are scenes from a family holiday to Anglesey, where they explore a beach on foot and the countryside in the car. After footage of another hedgehog in long grass, there are a variety of birds and animals filmed at Chester Zoo, and shots of a mouse that has hidden in a saddle bag. Concludes with Caroline as an attendant at a Rose Queen crowning ceremony and procession in Cockerham. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| OLD ENGLISH CRAFTS; MAKING HAY RAKES LANCASHIRE TYPE | |||
| Date: *1966-67/70 Film Number: 5250 | |||
| The making of Lancashire-style hay rakes by craftsmen and their machines at a former bobbin mill in Cumbria. After a brief shot of a cottage, the film follows the production of these distinctive wooden rakes with their bow-shaped braces, from the uncut wood to the finished article. The film ends with a man using one of the rakes in a field of newly-cut grass. For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html | |||
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| [BROOK FAMILY HOLIDAYS] | |||
| Date: 1966-7/70/2/5-6 Film Number: 4133 | |||
| Footage from several different Brook family holidays around England and Wales. The family are seen roller-skating and canoeing at Butlin's in Ayr, with wild ponies in the New Forest, swimming in the sea at Brixton, Devon, seeing the sights in London, at St David's and Milford Haven in North Wales. Other holidays featured include Clovelly and Bude, Tenby, Caldey Island and collecting blackberries at Beacon Fell. The family celebrate Thelma's mother's 60th Birthday at Trentham Gardens in Stoke on Trent and the family are seen on holiday at Mottram Hall near Prestbury in Cheshire and in the garden at home at Marple. | |||
| [CARAVAN HOLIDAY] / DAY AT TIMPERLEY | |||
| Date: *1966/68 Film Number: 742 | |||
| A caravan holiday near Blackpool - swimming pools and play area on the camp site. A large group from Timperley Riding School - on a ride along country paths; learning to jump. | |||
| A DAY IN A NURSERY SCHOOL KITCHEN | |||
| Date: *1966/68 Film Number: 5574 | |||
| The clock shows 7.55am and nursery kitchen staff prepare for the day. They cook and prepare plates of food, which is wheeled into the main nursery on a trolley. Children set tables, eat their meals, then play outside and a table of children with a teacher are served lunch. Afterwards, the nursery staff clean up. They wash crockery, clean the cooking area and equipment, sweep and mop, using named cleaning products. At 2pm, potatoes are sorted in buckets, children play in a waterlogged sandpit, and the clock shows 2.30pm. | |||
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| [CHILDREN IN THE SNOW, HOWARD STREET NURSERY, BURNLEY] | |||
| Date: *1966/68 Film Number: 5617 | |||
| Children play outside and sledge in the snow at Howard Street nursery in Burnley. Teachers supervise and assist the children as they sledge, dig in the snow, and play in a Wendy house. | |||
| [SPIRITUALIST CHURCH; SPALDING SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1966/68/69 Film Number: 3834 | |||
| Brief shots of the exterior of a spiritualist church, location unknown (possibly in the Ashton area). Also brief scenes inside the church of a healing session. Footage of Spalding, Lincolnshire, including bulbfields on a wet day shot from a moving vehicle, a flower parade in the rain and buying vegetables from a roadside stall | |||
| [OLDHAM AND TENERIFE] | |||
| Date: 1966/8-9 Film Number: 4293 | |||
| Mother and daughter open presents at home on Christmas 1966, before the family are seen on holiday in Tenerife - visiting a banana plantation and watching a television programme being made. A child's 2nd birthday party is held in the garden at home, and the family have a picnic in Derbyshire. On a trip to London in 1966, the elder daughter is seen in Regents Park, and the family watch rehearsals for Trooping the Colour at Wellington Barracks, as well as visiting the zoo. Younger daughter's 2nd birthday is celebrated at home, the family are seen swimming on holiday in Spain, and a group of Morris dancers entertain a crowd outside the Three Lakes Hotel in Kilarney, Ireland. The film ends with a visiting Aunt and Uncle setting off back home to America on the Canberra in 1969. | |||
| [LINDA WILD'S EARLY YEARS] | |||
| Date: *1966/68-9 Film Number: 7755 | |||
| Family film with scenes of a little girl (believed to be Linda Wild) as a baby and toddler. Includes shots of the baby in her pram, sitting inside on a carpet and then outside in the garden. As a toddler she is seen holding a model boat near a boating pool, in a back garden accompanied by two young boys, and running around a front garden path. At the family farm, she is shown petting lambs whilst being held by her father and picking flowers in a cowfield. Concludes with two girls playing on a swing. | |||
| [CANAL TRIPS AND A WEDDING] | |||
| Date: *1966/8/9 Film Number: 11066 | |||
| Several narrow boat trips in different locations in the North-West and Midlands are interspersed with a family wedding, a ceremony involving a mayor and other civic dignitaries who arrive by boat, men cleaning out and making repairs to a stretch of disused canal, and family scenes in a garden. | |||
| TIME AND TIDE | |||
| Date: *1966/8/9 Film Number: 8493 | |||
| A young woman stares at her engagement ring and remembers a picnic with her boyfriend, picking the ring and kissing her fiancé good-bye at the train station. The man, a concert pianist, is seen playing at Wigmore Hall then flying off to the USA whilst his fiancé waves him off from the observation deck. Whilst opening presents the woman learns of an air crash involving her boyfriend's plane, we return to the present and the woman walks into the sea and vanishes. | |||
| [FAMILY SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1966/68/70 Film Number: 747 | |||
| Family scenes in the garden - a young man with a gun; snowball fight; a boy with a dog. A school sports day - sprinting; long jump; relay races. A journey through Manchester by bus. Scenes in the park - a lake and gardens. Streetscenes in Northenden. | |||
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| [THE FLEMINGS] | |||
| Date: *1966/8/70/2 Film Number: 4245 | |||
| Film of John Fleming's family, taken over a period of several years. Andrew Fleming is seen with his grandparents, James and Mary, outside the church at his Christening, and the other three Fleming children are seen playing in the garden and in the street. They are seen with their mother, Dororthy, at Morecambe, at a funfair and on the beach. The family watch the last British Rail steam train pass their house on 11 August 1968, and then are seen enjoying a camping trip and watching the paddle steamer Waverley leave shore. The film ends with the family and their pets outside their house. | |||
| [JANE AND RUTH OVER SIX YEARS]] | |||
| Date: *1966/8/70/2 Film Number: 11845 | |||
| Mrs Moston decorating a christening cake for Jane Elizabeth Moston. Baby Jane sat with cake then on the settee with a Border Collie and then in the garden with parents and Collie puppies. Later we see Jane as a toddler pushing a walker in the garden then years later we see Jane and her sister Ruth playing in the garden. Jane sat in a washing up bowl being washed by her sister then later still a young girl, Ruth?, driving a tractor with the help of a young man | |||
| MICHAEL AND HAZEL AT HARDHORN | |||
| Date: 1966/9 Film Number: 5041 | |||
| Smith family camping holiday at Highbank Farm, Hardhorn - playing on the farm and feeding the chickens. They rent a beach hut at Cleveleys and the kids play on the beach before visiting a playground. A visit to Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the kids go on some small rides. The family are then seen boarding a plane at Manchester Airport, and the take-off is filmed through the window. In America, Michael goes sledging with relatives and the Christmas tree is collected, before the adults dance at a party. They go sightseeing in Washington, Gettysburg and Annapolis. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [THE HESSON FAMILY ON HOLIDAY AND AT HOME] | |||
| Date: *1966/69/77 Film Number: 1439 | |||
| The Hesson Family are seen on holiday at Abergele and Southport. Also includes shots of the family playing in the garden with their pet cats. | |||
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| [THE FISHERMAN, THE CYCLIST AND THE GAMEKEEPER] | |||
| Date: *1966/74 Film Number: 4395 | |||
| Sequences from unedited fictional film about a man going fishing, a man on a bicycle and another man, possibly meant to be gamekeeper. The scenes do not appear to be in any particular order and include the cyclist falling off his bike in a stream, a sports car being stolen and the fisherman walking through the countryside being followed. | |||
| LAST DAYS AT WITHENS LANE | |||
| Date: 1967 Film Number: 347 | |||
| Boys of Wallasey Grammar School - rowing; the Eccleston Ferry; painting scenery for a play; sports events and presentation of cups; soccer; school fete; and a judo display. | |||
| [THE DUCHESS OF KENT OPENS THE NEW EXTENSION] | |||
| Date: 1967 Film Number: 364 | |||
| Wallasey Grammar School - shows the new school gym; assembly hall with trophies on display; the Duchess arrives; she unveils a plaque. | |||
| STABLELESS FACE END SYSTEMS | |||
| Date: 1967 Film Number: 399 | |||
| Shots of the equipment being demonstrated and in use underground, in mining (Hydraulic supports) Wigan. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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