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| AFTER PETERLOO | |||
| Date: 1980 Film Number: 11368 | |||
| This is an amateur film funded by the North West Arts Association. It features music and images accompanying the narrator who describes a dream of the violent death of an ancestor, possibly during The Peterloo Massacre on August 16th 1819. There are some shots around Manchester City Centre, recognisable locations are Manchester Central Library and Library Walk. | |||
| [HOLLINGWORTH LAKE, SALE WATER PARK AND ASTLEY GREEN] | |||
| Date: *1980 Film Number: 8924 | |||
| Rushes for a film production about Greater Manchester country parks. This reel features a motor boat on the water at Hollingworth Lake, people windsurfing and fishing at Sale Water Park, and shots of Astley Green - fields with horses, and the derelict colliery building and pithead wheel. | |||
| [SAILING IN THE LAKES AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1980 Film Number: 12075 | |||
| The film begins with brief scenes of a transit van on the motorway, pulling a trailer containing two motorbikes. We then see sailing scenes from various locations in the Lake District. The film ends with scenes of men leaving a building in protective suits, it appears as though they have been receiving training in how to deal with a gas attack. | |||
| [DINGHY SCENES AND TERRITORIAL ARMY ACTIVITIES] | |||
| Date: 1980 Film Number: 12079 | |||
| A group of people are seen putting up a sail on a dinghy, and then out on the lake. We see a boy riding a bicycle along a suburban street. We then see scenes from Warcop training ground in Cumbria. The soldiers haul themselves horizontally along ropes and we see them marching and standing around in a car park. | |||
| LOWER WITHINGTON ROSE QUEEN 1980] | |||
| Date: 1980 Film Number: 11927 | |||
| The 1980 Lower Withington Rose Queen festival parade begins with a girls' dance troupe, a marching brass band, floats people in fancy dress collecting money for charity and a group of Morris dancers. The Rose Queens pass by in a vintage convertible and a horse-drawn carriage. The parade arrives at the showground and the coronation ceremony of the Rose Queen begins. This is followed by the prize giving for the fancy dress and best decorated float competition. | |||
| [LIONS ACTIVITIES] | |||
| Date: 1980-1 Film Number: 3601 | |||
| Varied footage from the activities of the Lions Club in Congleton - food is gathered and put into bags for distribution to deserving causes, and members of the club are seen recording talking newspapers. May Day celebrations are observed in Congleton Park, with members of the club assembling the stalls, and wearing costumes to complement the jousting and mediaeval theme of the event. There are scenes of hill walking, and footage from the club's charter dinner. | |||
| [CHRISTMAS DANCE FLOOR 2] | |||
| Date: *1980/81 Film Number: 3822 | |||
| Middle-aged and elderly couples dancing at what seems to be a Christmas social event. Includes an amateur revue, scottish dancing and fancy dress. | |||
| [STALYBRIDGE MOTORCYCLE CLUB ACTIVITIES] | |||
| Date: 1980-1 Film Number: 7366 | |||
| Stalybridge Motorcycle Club activities during 1980 and 1981 including a trip to Jodrell Bank, camping in Portmadoc (including bikers being towed on a sled on the beach), plus scenes at the Moon Rally in May 1980. A ride out to a local cafe, before footage of trick-riding at the Lantern Rally. After a gathering at Rivington Barn, club members join a demonstration for the Motorcycle Action Group in Huddersfield. Ends with scenes at the Millbrook Community Centre where bikers dance and headbang to local rock bands. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [FARM; FOOTBALL MATCH; FAMILY; WEDDING ANNIVERSARY] | |||
| Date: 1980-1 Film Number: 9089 | |||
| Farming and family scenes from the Heyes family of Mossborough Hall Farm in Rainford, St. Helens. The film opens on 12 May 1980. James Heyes is in a field, he talks for the camera about how the sprout seeds have not germinated due to the recent dry weather, it has been the driest April on record. We then see James playing in a local football match. Mrs Heyes briefly records a visit to Elizabeth and Robin (and their dog Fly) at Hightown on Sunday 2 August. On 11 August 1981 Mr and Mrs Heyes celebrated their Silver Wedding. They talk for the camera about how they have spent the day. Their children James, William and Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's partner Robin and James's partner Fiona Lennon, talk for the camera and give Mr and Mrs Heyes their good wishes. James also talks about how the farm has been struggling over the summer as business has been slow. Mrs Heyes mentions that Mr Heyes has been asked to go hunting with Lord Derby. | |||
| THE POOL OF LIFE | |||
| Date: c1981 Film Number: 5586 | |||
| Film promoting tourism in and around Liverpool. Some of the region's museums and art galleries are visited, including the Lady Lever Art Gallery and the Merseyside Maritime Museum. After a trip to Knowsley Safari Park, the film looks at some of Merseyside's sporting and leisure activities, including football at Anfield, golf at the Royal Liverpool and racing at Aintree. Moving further afield, the film visits Southport, the Wirral, Chester, North Wales and the Lakes, before returning to Liverpool to look at the nightlife in the city, with people dancing in a nightclub and and locals drinking in the English pub, The Nook, in Chinatown. | |||
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| [ELIZABETH AND ROBIN'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: c1981 Film Number: 9090 | |||
| Scenes from Elizabeth and Robin's wedding. Guests arrive at All Saint's Church, Rainford and are asked to pose for photos on arrival. The groom's party and the bridal party are also seen arriving. We next see Elizabeth and Robin signing the register, and then leaving the church. The wedding party and guests pose for photos outside the church. We then see scenes from the reception. Elizabeth and Robin greet the guests as they arrive. They cut the cake and Robin, Mr Heyes and another family member give speeches and then there is dancing. The film ends with Mrs Heyes and Elizabeth at home looking at the wedding photos. | |||
| [DAVID AT CHRISTMAS AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1981 Film Number: 10020 | |||
| Christine Elliott helps David to open his Christmas presents. We see David at a lake where he feeds the geese, and in the garden at home where he plays with his toy lawnmower and wheelbarrow. | |||
| [VINTAGE MOTORCYCLES] | |||
| Date: 1980-3 Film Number: 7373 | |||
| Close up shots of various vintage motorbikes and choppers on display outside Millbrook Community Centre. Members of the Stalybridge Motorcycle Club can be seen looking on and drinking beer. There follow shots of three men attempting to fix a motorbike on a rainswept pavement as traffic whizzes past, before the reel ends with a view of a garden. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| MOTORCYCLES THROUGH THE AGES | |||
| Date: 1980-3 Film Number: 7374 | |||
| Vintage and modern motorcycles on display in a competition held outside Millbrook Community Centre in Tameside. There are shots inside the centre of the refreshment stall and of various trophies which are then presented to bikers by the Mayor and Mayoress. After a shot of the mayor's car, bikers are seen leaving the venue. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| RINGING THE CHANGES | |||
| Date: 1980-3 Film Number: 9224 | |||
| In September 1980 the Blackburn Branch of the Lancashire Association of Bell Ringers put forward an idea to move the bells from the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, which had been forced to close as it was structurally unsafe, to St. Silas Parish Church, Blackburn. This film, with a full commentary by Nigel Sharples, documents this process. In order to save on costs officers from the Blackburn Branch of Bell Ringers (Alan Schofield, Vic Wood and Frank Anderson) volunteered to remove the bells themselves from the tower of the Holy Trinity. The film documents the difficulties in the process and how they overcame them. We see them successfully remove the bells and get them on to a flat bed truck to be taken to John Taylors Bell Founders in Loughborough. At the Bell Founders we see the bells being restored and retuned by Bell Master Mike Milsom. In January 1983 the restored bells arrive at St. Silas Church where we see them lifted by crane into the grounds of the church where volunteers are waiting to receive them. A group of bell ringers are then seen ringing the bells while being filmed by a BBC TV crew. The film ends with a service for 'The Dedication of the Restored Ring of Eight Bells' on 12th February 1983, conducted by the Right Reverend Victor Whitsey. | |||
| [TANKS, GOLF AND GLIDERS] | |||
| Date: 1980-3 Film Number: 8638 | |||
| Compilation reel of miscellaneous footage, including an army tank reversing at speed, golfers teeing off, and moorland views. There are shots of people outside a house on a suburban street, and gliders coming in to land. | |||
| [CANALS, TRAINS AND MOTORBIKES] | |||
| Date: 1980-3 Film Number: 10350 | |||
| Compilation reel of leisure activities, including canal boat scenes with a trip on a horse-pulled narrowboat, a vist to the Ffestioniog railway, motorbike scrambling, tobogganing in the park, and watching the demolition of a power station cooling tower. | |||
| [MERSEY TRAFFIC AND ALBERT DOCK] | |||
| Date: 1980-3 Film Number: 10366 | |||
| A visit to Liverpool in which we see ships and ferries on the Mersey, and take a look around Albert Dock and the empty warehouses before the area was redeveloped. | |||
| METRO NEWSREEL | |||
| Date: 1980-4 Film Number: 3428 | |||
| Local footage shot in the Manchester area - the 1981 Manchester Marathon, watersports at Sale Water Park, planes taking off and landing at Manchester Airport, and footage of motorway construction in Stockport. Other footage includes shots of the (then) new InterCity 125 trains in and near to Stockport station, and views of depleted reservoirs in the summer of 1984. | |||
| ["THE WORLD'S GREATEST DAREDEVIL SHOW"] | |||
| Date: c1980s Film Number: 3607 | |||
| Footage of a stunt show, by the display team 'The World's Greatest Daredevil Show', with motorcyclists and race-car drivers perform various stunts in Congleton Park for a large audience. | |||
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