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Record 8824 – 8843 of 11096
| [PUBLIC ENQUIRY AT PRESTON GUILD HALL] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2413 | |||
| Footage of the final summing up at the Public Enquiry, held at Preston Guild Hall, regarding the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) on 24-1-75. The officers of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation are seen at a table next to a large mounted map. Speakers are seen as are the audience and members of the press. Continues with footage of a customer and information officer at a Central Lancashire Development Corporation enquiry kiosk. Closes with shots of people arriving at the Guild Hall arcade. | |||
| [TREE PLANTING CEREMONY - ASTLEY PARK] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2414 | |||
| Film of a tree planting ceremony at the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Opens with a group of workmen standing at the site. Continues with footage of Sir Frank Pearson (Chairman of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation) and the Mayor of Chorley, who each make a speech and plant a tree. The various VIPs leave and the workmen continue to plant trees. | |||
| [Factory Under Construction] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2415 | |||
| Opens with footage from a farm. Continues with footage from the Walton Summit Employment Site, showing work taking place on the semi-built superstructure of a factory. | |||
| [TREE PLANTING AND FACTORY CONSTRUCTION] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2416 | |||
| Film opens with footage of the tree planting ceremony held in Astley Park (see film number 2414). Continues with shots of 'Calverts Farm', including building work and new buildings. Closes with ground level and aerial footage of the Walton Summit Employment Site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) including partially built factory units and roads. | |||
| [TREE NURSERY AND FACTORY BUILDING] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2417 | |||
| Film opens with footage of a partially built factory on the Walton Summit Site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Builders are seen laying the roof. Continues with footage of a tree nursery, a motorway and a farm. Closes with shots of the Culbeck shrub nursery. | |||
| [Tree Nursery, Farm And Construction Work] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2418 | |||
| Opens with footage of shrub growing and tree growing nurseries run by the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Continues with shots of a farm. Closes with footage of construction work and housing on the Moss Side Site. | |||
| [Factory Units] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2419 | |||
| Opens with footage of the Walton Summit site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), including factory units under construction and completed. Continues with footage of the Astley Park site, showing construction and surveying activities. | |||
| [TREE PLANTING AND CONSTRUCTION SITES] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2420 | |||
| Aerial footage of a tree nursery, a farm and the Moss Side, Cop Lane and Walton Summit sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of a motorway, a river, some greenhouses and construction work. | |||
| [Central Lancashire Construction Work] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2421 | |||
| Features aerial footage of the Astley Park and Walton Summit Constrruction Sites. Continues with ground level footage from Walton Summit including construction work and the interior of a factory unit. Closes with shots of construction work at Clayton Brook including houses being built. | |||
| [GORDON OAKES - OFFICIAL VISIT 1] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2422 | |||
| Film of the official visit by Mr Gordon Oakes (Undersecretary of State for the North West) to various sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). The official party, including Sir Frank Pearson (Chairman of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation ) are seen at various sites including Astley Hall, the Whelmar building site, Culbeck shrub nursery and Walton Summit employment area. The group, numbering around seven, travel by helicopter and Land Rover and are also seen at the Central Lancashire Development Corporation offices. | |||
| [GORDON OAKES - OFFICIAL VISIT 2] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2423 | |||
| Film of the official visit by Mr Gordon Oakes (Undersecretary of State for the North West) to various sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) (see also film no. 1422). The official party, numbering around seven, is seen by the Central Lancashire Development Corporation offices, by a helicopter (which takes off) and at the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation. | |||
| [IMPORTING CATTLE] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2424 | |||
| Film opens with a British Caledonian plane landing at Manchester Airport. Cattle are unloaded from the plane in crates and herded into vans. Closes with the vans travelling down a motorway. | |||
| [LOWER HOUSING FARM] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2425 | |||
| Film shot at Lower House Farm. Mr EG Williams (the farmer), Mr Harris of the Australian Trade Commission in Manchester and various other interested parties look around the farm, viewing Murray Grey cattle which which have been imported from Australia (see film No. 2424) and Palamino ponies which Mr Williams exports to Australia. | |||
| [SHOW HOUSE OPENING - ASTLEY PARK] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2426 | |||
| Film showing the opening of a show house built by Ambrose Builders, one of the developers on the Astley Park site. Mr Hemmings of Ambrose and Mr Duke of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) make speeches watched by a small crowd and the press. Continues with members of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation board at an exhibition held in the first show factory built on the Walton Summit site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation. | |||
| [Astley Park - Building Site] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2427 | |||
| Footage from the Ambrose Site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), which is part of the Astley Park Site. Includes shots of a show house, offices and building activities. Continues with earth moving at the Whittle District Centre of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation and closes with shots of a factory unit on the Corporation's Walton Summit site. | |||
| [CONSTRUCTION WORK AND MOVING INTO NEW HOUSES] | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2428 | |||
| Opens with shots of factories. Continues with footage from the Clayton Brook Housing site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), featuring houses under construction. Cuts to views of the green at Moss Side. Continues with footage of the Gibbs family moving into an Ambrose house on the Astley Park site, the first occupants of houses built for the Central Lancashire Development Corporation. Closes with shots of signs at Astley Park. | |||
| CHOICES FOR TOMORROW. WATER WATER | |||
| Date: 1975 Film Number: 2526 | |||
| David Bellamy explains the biological importance of water and man's position in the hydrological cycle. He is seen at Thamesmead (in London), on a beach, at a sewage treatment plant and on a farm. He explains how water is cleansed and the treatment and uses of sewage. | |||
| [CHILDREN IN NURSERY GARDEN 1] | |||
| Date: *1975 Film Number: 2555 | |||
| Children from Bradley School Nursery, in Nelson, are seen playing on the climbing apparatus in the school playgrounds :- includes shots of the boys and girls playing in the sand pit and on the swings and slide. Also features scenes of some older school boys competing at a sports event ( location unknown). Includes shots of the boys participating in long jump, running, high jump and a tug of war game. Concludes with brief scenes of the prize giving ceremony, where the winners are seen collecting their trophies. | |||
| [CHILDREN IN NURSERY GARDEN 2] | |||
| Date: *1975 Film Number: 2556 | |||
| Scenes of the children and staff of Bradley Nursery School, in Nelson, sitting on the school lawn on a hot summers day. Some of the children wave union jack flags and red, white and blue streamers. (Probably celebrating the Queen's Silver Jubilee [?]). Includes close up shots of a couple of children holding their toys up for the camera. Concludes with footage of some mothers picking up their children from school, at the end of the day. | |||
| [CHILDREN IN NURSERY GARDEN 3] | |||
| Date: *1975 Film Number: 2557 | |||
| Scenes of the children of Bradley Nursery School, in Nelson, playing in the school garden and playground. Includes footage of the boys and girls having a picnic lunch outdoors on a blanket and playing on the climbing apparatus. Also features shots of a little boy pulling his three friends across the lawn, on the back of a wooden cart. Concludes with scenes of a group of mothers [?] sitting in the nursery garden chatting to each other. Union jack flags and buntings are visible in the background (possibly connected with the Queen's Silver Jubilee Celebrations [?]). | |||
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