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[DEMOLITION SITE AND GOLF CLUB]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2429
 
Film opens with footage of a building at the British Rubber Demolition Site, including shots of men working. Continues with shots of fields, Moss Side church, some golfers at Leyland Golf Club and more countryside.
 
 
 
[MOTORWAY AND FARMLAND]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2430
 
Footage of a motorway and surrounding fields. Continues with shots of farmland. Closes with aerial footage of a motorway roundabout.
 
 
 
[ASTLEY HALL - ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2431
 
Archaeologist John Hallam is seen at Astley Hall describing to camera the work recently carried out on a cremation pot discovered in 1963. Bone fragments are seen and there is footage of people working on the excavations.
 
 
 
[CLAYTON BROOK HOUSING]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2432
 
Aerial footage of areas around the Clayton Brook Housing area and the Whittle District centre of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Continues with shots of a quarry near Clayton le Woods and the area around Astley Park, including an Archeological dig site
 
 
 
[MOSS SIDE INDUSTRIAL AND HOUSING]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2433
 
Aerial views of the Moss Side industrial and housing areas of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) which are under construction. Also includes aerial footage of the Savick Sewer, of Fulwood and Cop Lane, including the construction site.
 
 
 
[HOUSING AND FACTORIES IN CENTRAL LANCASHIRE]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2434
 
Opens with aerial footage of the Cop Lane site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Continues with aerial footage of Clayton Brook housing, factories at the Walton Summit site and a road at the Whittle District Centre. The film closes with ground level footage shot at Fulwood, including shots of farmland and houses
 
 
 
[CLAYTON BROOK WHITTLE AND MOSS SIDE]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2435
 
Footage of farmland and fields shot near the Clayton Brooks Houses, Whittle and Moss Side.
 
 
 
[VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT SITES 2]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2436
 
Opens with footage of fields around the Whittle le Woods and Clayton Brooks Housing areas of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Continues with footage from Moss Side, including new housing. Closes with shots of completed and unfinished housing at the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation.
 
 
 
[NEW HOUSES IN CENTRAL LANCASHIRE]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2437
 
Footage of Barratt and Ambrose houses on land of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). A child is seen playing near the Ambrose housing.
 
 
 
[WHITTLE LE WOODS AND CLAYTON BROOK]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2438
 
Opens with footage from Whittle -Le-Woods, includes shots of housing and farmland. Continues with footage from the Clayton Brook Housing area, showing housing, a new road and farmland. Closes with a shot of a lorry tipping.
 
 
 
[CENTRAL LANCASHIRE - VARIOUS DEVELOPMENT SITES]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2439
 
Aerial footage of various areas under development by the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of Clayton Brook Housing, Fulwood, Clayton Le Woods and Whittle; roads, fields and isolated groups of houses feature heavily. Also includes footage of partially built factories on the Walton Summit site.
 
 
 
[ASTLEY PARK DEVELOPMENT SITE]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2440
 
Aerial footage of the Astley Park site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships).
 
 
 
[WAITING FOR THE BRIDE]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2683
 
Footage of various wedding guests, standing around in the street seemingly waiting for someone to arrive.
 
 
 
[POST-WEDDING SCENES]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2684
 
Guests gather outside a church in Mossley after the weddding that was being anticipated in film 2683. They gather for photos and to chat outside.
 
 
 
[GARDEN SCENES AND ZOO ANIMALS]
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2700
 
The film begins with footage of small children on a float dressed in costumes. There are then scenes from Chester Zoo - a polar bear in its enclosure, a monkey, penguins in their pool, seals, an orang-utan, a gorilla, a giraffe and its calf, some buffalo and some elephants. There is footage of the filmmaker's daughter on her bike,skipping outside the house, dressed up in a big hat and having a teddy bear's picnic.
 
 
 
THE PACE EGG PLAYERS, WARDLE VILLAGE, ROCHDALE EASTER 1976
Date: 1976 Film Number: 2918
 
Costumed pace-eggers perform in the streets of Wardle village, while locals watch.
 
 
 
YUGOSLAVIA: SUNNY ADRIATIC AND MONTENEGRO
Date: 1976 Film Number: 3031
 
Scenes from a Yugoslavian holiday: town and village scenes (including people in traditional costume), landscapes and coastal views.
 
 
 
YUGOSLAVIAN FOLK DANCING
Date: 1976 Film Number: 3048
 
A night-time performance of folk-dancing in Yugoslavia.
 
 
 
CHRISTMAS 1976
Date: 1976 Film Number: 3150
 
Film shot at Christmas 1976. A young child is seen riding a new bicycle in a house and also playing with a puppy. There is a shot of various new toys and of the puppy and a rabbit playing together in a back yard. Two children are seen in a bath, there are shots of a lake and a playground slide as well as coaches parked in a coachpark in Blackpool. Two children are seen in red bobblehats.
 
 
 
CHESHIRE HERITAGE
Date: 1976 Film Number: 3163
 
A film about rural life in Cheshire, containing positive and negative aspects of the countryside. There are scenes of fox-hunting, ploughing with a shire horse, rural villages, lakes with fishermen, tudor cottages and various historic properties - Arley Hall, Gawsworth Old Hall - and leisure amenities - Marbury Country Park and Shakerley Mere. In comparison, the film also shows scrapyards, disused buildings, unsightly factory works and a motorway. 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/
 
 
 
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