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[BIG DIPPER]
Date: *1973 Film Number: 2279
 
Film shot with a camera mounted on the first car of the Big Dipper ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Also includes shots of the ride from ground level. Closes with a shot of children disembarking from the ride 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/
 
 
 
CONNEXIONS
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2282
 
Film about the importance of well maintained electrical equipment. Opens with a man listening to his record player, the plug explodes. He then demonstrates the correct method of attaching a plug to electrical equipment.
 
 
 
[AGE]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2283
 
Film featuring children playing and standing around in a park, in the street and in shopping precincts. An elderly woman and man are heard, separately, commenting on their youth compared with childrens experiences in the 1970s. After concluding that "they were happy days" the woman leaves the park in which she has been sitting. The film concludes with a shot of her knitting in her flat.
 
 
 
[HEAVEN AND HELL]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2284
 
Film with a soundtrack of poems and verses concerning heaven and hell. Images of religion, such as churches and paintings of Christ are seen as are photographs of wars and atrocities. Radio broadcasts concerning the bombing of Hiroshima and concentration camps are also heard. The images cease as the commentary exhorts people to enjoy themselves. There follows shots of people smiling as they walk down streets and work.
 
 
 
[NEW ORDSALL 1973]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2342
 
Scenes in and around Ordsall Park (including an exterior shot of Ordsall Hall.) Features footage of the new housing and flats (Fairbrother Lodge, Percy Lodge and Gurner Lodge) on Stoneway Avenue. Also includes high angle views of the surrounding docks, ship canal and slum cleared areas.
 
 
 
[THE RUSS BOYS AT NORDEN LAKES]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2373
 
Mrs Brookes, from Salford, is seen walking around Norden lakes with her daughter-in-law and three grandsons. Includes shots of the surrounding countryside and the family, taking it in turns, to climb over a wooden style. Concludes with brief footage of Mrs Russ playing cricket with the three boys and their friend.
 
 
 
[STEAM TRAINS AT HAWORTH]
Date: *1973 Film Number: 2386
 
Mrs Brookes, from Salford, is seen wandering around a steam train exhibition at Haworth. Includes various shots of steam engines moving slowly along the railway tracks. Also features an exterior shot of the Bronte Parsonage Museum.
 
 
 
[Central Lancashire - Development Sites]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2387
 
Footage of areas of the Astley Park site, near Chorley, prior to development by the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of farmland, roads, fields, farm buildings and the area around Washington Hall.
 
 
 
[Astley Hall]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2388
 
Aerial footage of the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of Astley Hall and the countryside around it. Continues with footage of the M61, residential caravans, the M6 and a wreckers yard. Features footage of the Walton Summit housing site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation. Closes with footage of the Corporation's offices shot from ground level.
 
 
 
[Posters]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2389
 
Shots of posters and photographs on boards and buildings. Closes with a signpost to Grimsargh
 
 
 
[Astley Park and Walton Summit]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2390
 
Film featuring footage of the Astley Park and Walton Summit sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). The footage of the Astley Park site includes shots of boys fishing in a pond, of fields and of Astley Hall gardens. Continues with shots of the Walton Summit housing site, showing its proximity to the M61.
 
 
 
[Electric Trains at Preston]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2391
 
Film opens with footage of the first electric train service at Preston station. Crowds watch as the mayor of Preston waves a green flag and leaves the station in a train cab. Continues with footage from the Central Lancashire Development Corporation's Walton Summit housing site. Includes footage of girls camping, boys playing cricket in a garden, of fields and of two elderly men sitting beside a road.
 
 
 
[Various Development Sites]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2392
 
Opens with footage of the exterior of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation offices (now known as English Partnerships), an interior shot and the laying of a driveway at the rear. The Cuerden Valley is also seen. Continues with footage of traffic in various locations, some of which is being controlled by a policeman. Continues with footage of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation's Cop Lane site, houses, caravans and fields are seen. Preston is visible in the background. Closes with footage of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation's Astley Park site, including surveyors working in a field.
 
 
 
[Traffic in Central Lancashire]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2393
 
Film featuring various shots of traffic on the M61, M6, A59 and other roads in the area covered by the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Policemen are seen controlling the traffic at several points. A residential caravan site in the Central Lancashire Development Corporation's Cop Lane site is seen towards the end of the film.
 
 
 
[Cop Lane and Preston Docks]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2394
 
Opens with footage from the Cop Lane site, includes farm buildings and shots of children playing in a pond with an inflatable dinghy. Continues with footage of traffic in Preston. Three elderly men are seen watching traffic from a bench, a large truck is seen leaving a factory and various vehicles are seen entering and leaving Preston Docks. Continues with several minutes of traffic at a busy junction. The film closes with shots of a traffic diversion (being largely ignored), and a man crossing a road.
 
 
 
[Traffic at Bamber Bridge]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2395
 
Opens with traffic at Bamber Bridge. Continues with footage from the Cop Lane and Walton Summit sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships).
 
 
 
[Building work at Astley Park]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2396
 
Opens with footage of fields, includes shots of a train, some houses and the M6. Continues with footage of building work on the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), including shots of forensic science labs.
 
 
 
[Savick Sewer - Work Commences]
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2397
 
Film of the ceremonial commencement of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation's first major engineering contract, the Savick sewer in Preston. VIPs are seen boarding a coach, arriving at a construction site and strolling around. The chairman of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), Sir Frank Pearson, gives a speech before operating a mechanical digger to commence construction. The film closes with the coach departing.
 
 
 
SMITHFIELD MARKET MANCHESTER 1853 - 1973
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2507
 
Film showing a typical day at Smithfield Market, Manchester. A caption gives a brief history of the market which was opened in 1853 and is set to close in the year of the film, 1973. Lorries are seen delivering produce, stallholders set up their stalls and gut and fillet poultry and fish. The kitchen and interior of a cafe is seen. Stallholders are seen sweeping up rubbish, there are close-ups of traders signs and the film closes with a security guard shutting the market's metal shutters.
 
 
 
THE LONGEST DRINK
Date: 1973 Film Number: 2518
 
Film providing an in-depth look at the work of the Manchester Water Works Department. Looks at the history of Manchester's water supply and the building of reservoirs in the Lake District, and shows how water is supplied to industry and to the home. The laying of new water mains is seen, and the importance of maintenance and location of leaks is stressed. The film ends with a tour of Manchester's sewers, looks at the building of new ones, and shows how water is treated and cleaned before being released back into rivers and the Manchester Ship Canal.
 
 
 
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