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Record 9197 – 9216 of 11241
| [MAJORCA SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1976 Film Number: 10901 | |||
| Scenes from a family holiday to Majorca. The group play crazy golf, visit the beach and a local market. | |||
| [SOUTHPORT FLOWER SHOW 1976] | |||
| Date: 1976 Film Number: 10971 | |||
| Station Road in an unknown village then various trade stalls, crowds and prize winning flower displays in the marquees at Southport Flower Show followed by show jumping on the show ground. At the Lancaster Tattoo we have a combat display by the army, marching military bands, gymnastics with trampolines and finally a parachute display team landing onto the show ground | |||
| [MOTOR VEHICLE TRADE SHOW] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 10972 | |||
| A boys' parade on waste ground between blocks of flats with marching bands and banners followed by some tame deer in a country park, possibly Tatton. A group of children are seen jumping and swimming in a river then a car and motorcycle trade show with vehicles in various marquees with exhibitors from the North West. Rural scenes with ducks and ducklings on a river then an out door theatre concert in Edinburgh. After beach scenes we see a car rolling uphill at Croy Brae and a signpost for Moscow both of which are in Scotland. The film ends with a family stood in the front garden and two men in suits on the street. | |||
| OUR DAUGHTER'S WEDDING | |||
| Date: 1976 Film Number: 12227 | |||
| Scenes from the marriage of Alison Jane Leach to Barry John Woodward at St Margaret's Church, Heywood, on 14th August 1976. We see family members, including the bride, leaving home and getting in the car. There are then shots of the church interior taken before the ceremony. We see the bride and groom after the ceremony. The newlyweds and their guests pose for photos and confetti is thrown. There are then scenes from the reception at The Mount Pleasant Hotel in Whitworth. We see the cake being cut. The party continues back home, and we see the guests in the garden sitting in deckchairs. There are also shots of the decorated 'Just Married' car. | |||
| [AIRPORT SCENES AND 'A SUSAN MOVIE PRODUCTION 1976'] | |||
| Date: 1976 Film Number: 11815 | |||
| Aeroplanes taking off, landing, and taxiing at an unknown airport. 'A Susan Movie Production 1976' – with Susan in bed, her clothes magically going into the wardrobe by themselves, and using stop-motion, ornaments move on a countertop. | |||
| [OUT OF SIGHT] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11818 | |||
| Susan makes an invisibility potion, drinks it, but is caught using the phone by her mother when the potion wears off. She then poisons her mum whilst invisible again. Brief shots of sailing boats at Southport. | |||
| [BEACH SCENES] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11819 | |||
| Susan and a friend running towards the camera in slow motion to the sounds of Abba's Dancing Queen, the family playing boules on the beach, then the girls on a seesaw. Rod Stewart's I Am Sailing plays to views from a boat, and the Beach Boys' Surfin’ USA accompanies the girls in the dunes and bodyboarding in the surf. The beach scenes are possibly in Cornwall. | |||
| [MILKING THE COWS] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11896 | |||
| Herding the cows from the field, across the farm yard and into the milking shed. In the shed Mrs Moston prepares the milking machines and attaches them to the cows’ udders The milk is captured in small pails which are then emptied into larger milk churns which are then transported across the yard to be sterilised. Mr Moston unhooks the cows from the machinery and herds them back into the fields. Mrs Moston collects the cream from the churns before they are taken away on a lorry. The film ends with Mrs Moston vigorously cleaning the milking apparatus in hot water. | |||
| [PLOUGHING] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11908 | |||
| Ploughing a field shot from ground level. | |||
| [VINTAGE TRACTOR TOWING ANOTHER TRACTOR] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11915 | |||
| A vintage tractor towing another tractor down country lanes, signposts for Twemlow and Nantwich, then three young men pushing the towed tractor into a shed. The Moston family, including a little boy, play dominoes in the living room followed by shots of a cat in the garden. | |||
| [ASTLE PARK RALLY & FEEDING PETS] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11918 | |||
| A parade of vintage tractors at Astle Park followed by close up of a Border Collie and a cat being fed. | |||
| [SHEILA'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11920 | |||
| The wedding party pose for photos in front of the church as guests mingle, the bride, groom and bridesmaids pose on the church yard steps before the happy couple depart as confetti is thrown. At the reception Sheila and her husband depart in a 'Just Married' car, the film ends with brief shots of hang-gliders. | |||
| LOWER WITHINGTON ROSE QUEEN FESTIVAL 1976 | |||
| Date: *1976 Film Number: 11923 | |||
| A woman on horseback leads the Rose Day parade followed by a marching brass band, a girls' dance troupe, floats and the Rose Queen in a horse drawn carriage. After the Rose Queen coronation ceremony, we have the fancy dress competition and children on decorated bicycles. A parade and prize giving for the decorated floats is followed by children dancing around the Maypole. The film ends with children eating and drinking in a marquee and shots of flower arrangements. | |||
| CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY | |||
| Date: 1976-7 Film Number: 3192 | |||
| A film looking at various international businesses who have relocated to the North West, and what the reasons for, and benefits from, their move would be. | |||
| [WOOLTON QUARRY AND STONEMASONS' YARD] | |||
| Date: *1976/7 Film Number: 5776 | |||
| Scenes from Woolton Quarry, Merseyside - general views of the quarry, and workers are seen extracting blocks of stone using pneumatic drills and automatic saws. The stone is then lifted out of the quarry by cranes. Shots of stone masons working on the extracted blocks, shaping the stone precisely to the architect's designs (to be used later in the building of Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral). The process is documented in detail with the masons using both manual and automatic equipment, and the finished blocks are seen stacked up in the yard. | |||
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| [LIVERPOOL ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL] | |||
| Date: 1976-7 Film Number: 5785 | |||
| Scenes of building work at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral - the exterior is surrounded by scaffolding, and stonemasons are seen carving details into stone blocks. On the roof, blocks are lowered into place with cranes, and there views across to the Roman Catholic Cathedral. There are still photographs showing earlier stages of construction - including a visit by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth and the damage done to the Anglican Cathedral after bombing during the war. General views of stone and wooden carvings, altars and flags inside the Cathedral. | |||
| [POYNTON SHOW, COLWYN BAY ZOO & SOUTHPORT SEAFRONT] | |||
| Date: 1976/7 Film Number: 6437 | |||
| Shots of a hedgehog in the Reynold's family garden at Nelstrop Road, Heaton Chapel. Footage of aeroplanes, helicopters and parachutists at the Poynton Air Show and a marching band at the Congleton Show in 1976. Shots of animals at Colwyn Bay Zoo, and of Carole Reynolds feeding seagulls at Southport and playing with the Reynold's family dog Mitzi. Footage of an aeroplane coming into land at Manchester Airport. | |||
| [FLYING MODEL PLANES, HELICOPTERS AND COMPETITION] | |||
| Date: 1976-77 Film Number: 6946 | |||
| Scenes showing a group of men flying model aeroplanes and helicopters in a field. Shots include people launching planes, operating remote control devices and model aircraft flying overhead. A parachustist landing in a field and model helicopters with floats are seen hovering on water. Continues with more flying helicopters in during a compeition. | |||
| [SKIING AND SLEDGING IN DERBYSHIRE & CHESHIRE] | |||
| Date: 1976-77 Film Number: 7008 | |||
| The Doyle family with a group of friends take a skiing and sledging trip to the snow covered Derbyshire hills. The party are seen packing their van in preparation for the trip, on slopes close to a pub called The Setter Dog near Buxton and sledging on wooden sleighs. Includes brief speeded up and keyhole frame sequences of the family skiing. Scenes show deer walking amongst trees in the grounds of Lyme Park, the family sledging down slopes and taking hot refreshments. | |||
| [WELSH CASTLES AND FOSSIL HUNTING] | |||
| Date: 1976-7 Film Number: 5499 | |||
| Major Lester CP School trip to Colomendy in North Wales. The children visit several castles including Ewloe Castle and Flint Castle, whilst also visiting a farmhouse during the first half of the film. The children carry out school work and fossil hunting, but they also relax by playing on swings and slides on a playground. | |||
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