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[HOMEMADE WIG-WAM]
Date: c1930s Film Number: 2207
 
Two young girls are seen playing with their toys in the back garden. Includes shots of the children running around the lawn and sitting inside a homemade wig-wam.
 
 
 
[MISCELLANEOUS SCENES - BEHRENS FAMILY]
Date: c1930s Film Number: 2210
 
Miscellaneous scenes - including a man wheeling a bike in front of a house; two train engines moving along a toy track in the middle of a lawn and a group of adults walking along a rocky shore and two young girls paddling in the sea.
 
 
 
[CROWDS ONBOARD SHIP]
Date: c1930s Film Number: 2212
 
Scenes of an ocean liner leaving the port. Crowds of people are seen standing on the ship's dock. Includes a brief shot of a man and woman standing on the quayside looking out to sea.
 
 
 
[LEIGH HOUSING]
Date: c1930s Film Number: 3193
 
A film about changing housing provision in Leigh. New houses are under construction, older ones both still being occupied and also being demolished, with close-ups of some of the decay - badly maintained rooves, collapsing brick work, and rotting woodwork. There are shots inside an old kitchen, and then scenes of a more suburban terraced street. The film ends with some cows.
 
 
 
[MILK AND MEAT HYGIENE]
Date: c1930s Film Number: 3195
 
A film about hygiene in meat and milk production. After shots of a field full of cows, there are scenes of cows being milked by both hand and machine at the dairy of R&J Holden of Leigh. Empty bottles are washed and sterilised, then filled with milk and sealed. Cartons marked 'Tuberculin Tested Milk' are filled and sealed. An inspection of meat in an abbatoir is seen, and clumps of viscera are sliced open by a meat inspector.
 
 
 
[SCENES OUTSIDE SUBURBAN HOUSE]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4031
 
Brief scenes of family group outside the Wye Valley Hotel. Then different shots of various people outside a suburban house, getting into a car and driving away, and standing next to a car.
 
 
 
[CARS AND CHILDREN]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4033
 
Three people walk from a car towards the camera, there are close-ups of a girl and two boys in school uniform playing on a swing and a car with FV Blackpool registration is seen travelling towards the camera.
 
 
 
[WEDDING SCENES AND PLANES]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4035
 
A wedding party leave a building, confetti is thrown and the happy couple leave in a car. There are shots of the guests outside. A small plane is seen both outside and in the hangar, and there is a long shot of a plane taxiing at Squire's Gate airfield in Blackpool.
 
 
 
[LEONORA'S ART CLASS IN PRESTON]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4036
 
Leonora Higson's art class are seen on the steps of a building in Preston [probably an art gallery]. They are seen leaving the building and standing around outside.
 
 
 
[WAR MEMORIALS]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4037
 
School children are seen in the playground of a school in Ypres, Belgium. Two war memorials and a church are visited and the shell of an abandoned WWI tank is seen.
 
 
 
[COUNTRYSIDE AND RIVER]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4038
 
Leonora Higson's art class are seen enjoying a picnic in the countryside and paddling in the River Ribble. They are then seen outside an unidentified building.
 
 
 
[SEAFRONT AND COUNTRYSIDE]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4039
 
General views of a seafront and beach [possibly Torquay or Bournemouth). Shots from a car travelling down a country road, and then Mr and Hrs Higson sitting next to the car in a field.
 
 
 
[TRIP TO YORK]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4040
 
Shots of the archways of a bridge and the exterior of York Minster. The film ends with a woman standing next to the car on a country lane.
 
 
 
[WAR RELICS]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4041
 
Shots of a woman walking along a seafront in Belgium or France with boats and cranes in the background. Then views of a war memorial, a large gun and the exterior of a castle or fort.
 
 
 
[WAR MEMORIAL AND TRENCHES]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4042
 
There are general views of a square in a town in France or Belgium, showing the town hall and cathedral [possibly Ypres]. A war memorial is seen and people explore old WWI trenches.
 
 
 
[CATHEDRAL RUINS]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4043
 
People looking round a ruined cathedral or abbey [location unknown].
 
 
 
[SCENES IN NORTH WALES]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 4258
 
Footage of various members of the Greenwood family, out and about in the countryside in North Wales - walking along cliff-tops, next to waterfalls, in vintage, three-wheeled cars and at Llandudno.
 
 
 
[ABROAD IN BARBADOS]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 5010
 
Begins with brief shots of men in uniform, probably colonial police in Barbados, marching towards camera, then cuts to shots of boys swimming around a large ship, possibly diving for money thrown off the ship. Ends with a man and a woman running towards camera from a house, probably back in Lancashire. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
[LARKHOLME FARM, BOB'S FIRST STEPS, AT THE BEACH]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 5200
 
Collection of family films featuring a visit to Larkholme Farm (Fleetwood) and the Hannas outside their home in Burnley and on holiday in Blackpool. At the farm, the children feed animals and ride a horse. In Burnley, Bob Hanna takes his first steps and children play and ride on the street. There follow a collection of seaside scenes; waves crash on a seafront, the family play on a beach, and there is footage of a promenade and stage show. In Blackpool, the children watch a punch and judy show and there are shots of the boating pool. 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
 
 
 
[FEEDING THE DUCKS]
Date: 1930s Film Number: 5918
 
Footage of a boat arriving at a jetty. Scenes of children feeding the ducks in a park in Grange-over-Sands. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
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