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[CRASH TESTING SEAT DESIGNS]
Date: *1981 Film Number: 1702
 
Film of crash tests on coach bodies in order to test the effects of impact on seating designs. Filmed at Duple International Coachbuilders, Blackpool.
 
 
 
CARE BEYOND TODAY
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2276
 
An appeal by Brian Redhead for funds for the construction of a hospice for the incurably ill in Fylde. A similar hospice in Chorley serves as an example.
 
 
 
[PRESTON DOCKS AND CLAYTON GREEN]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2475
 
Opens with footage from Preston Docks, showing the docks, warehouses and wasteland. Also includes shots of cranes, silos and trucks. The film closes with footage of housing at the Clayton Green site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships).
 
 
 
[MOSS SIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE AND LOSTOCK HALL HOUSING ESTATE]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2476
 
Film of the Moss Side Industrial Estate, featuring shots of warehouses and builders at work. Also includes shots of the Lostock Hall site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), including shots of warehouses and terraced housing.
 
 
 
[lostock hall development site, the maltings and cuerden valley park]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2477
 
Opens with footage of allotments and terraced housing at the Lostock Hall site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), also includes shots of warehouses and a new road. Continues with shots of 'The Maltings' community centre (?) at Cop Lane, children are seen in front of the building. Closes with shots of children playing in Cuerden Valley Park while their mothers sit at a picnic table.
 
 
 
[CUERDEN VALLEY PARK AND LANCASTER LANE]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2478
 
Opens with shots of children in front of a stream in Cuerden Valley Park, also features general views of the park and shots of bridges, a lake and children playing. Workmen are seen constructing a pathway. Closes with footage of the Lancaster Lane site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), including footage of a new housing estate and a golf course.
 
 
 
[CLAYTON GREEN SPORTS CENTRE]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2479
 
Opens with footage of housing at various levels of completion at the Lancaster Lane site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Some are inhabited, a child is seen on the front lawn of a bungalow. Continues with shots of the front entrance of the Clayton Green Sports Centre. There are several takes of two young men approaching the Centre. Closes with footage of construction underway on the Roman Way site of the CLDC, warehouses and factories are seen under construction, a completed Michelin warehouse is also featured.
 
 
 
[ROMAN WAY, SHERWOOD AND INGOL EAST DEVELOPMENT SITES]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2480
 
Opens with footage of workmen involved in road building at the Roman Way site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Continues with shots of the Sherwood Site, showing houses (built and incomplete), a play area and road building. Closes with shots from the Ingol East site, featuring a new school, housing and a shopping centre.
 
 
 
[INGOL EAST AND PLUNGINGTON]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2481
 
Opens with footage from the Ingol East site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of new houses and flats and a boarded up new shopping centre. Also features shots of wasteground, building sites (including bricklayers at work) and a play area. Closes with footage of Plungington, featuring shots of traffic, a warehouse and housing under construction and Plungington Urban Renewal Office.
 
 
 
[PLUNGINGTON, INGOL EAST AND COURTAULDS FACTORY]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2482
 
Opens with shots of remodernised housing in Plungington, nearby derelict houses are also seen. Continues with shots from a park and streetscenes, showing recently planted trees and housing. Features footage from Ingol East Golf and Squash Club, including shots of the clubhouse and golfers. Closes with footage from Courtaulds factory, also showing an adjacent derelict factory.
 
 
 
PACE EGG PLAY
Date: 1981 Film Number: 2919
 
Performance of a pace-egg play.
 
 
 
EXCHANGE
Date: 1981 Film Number: 3320
 
Film about the history of the Royal Exchange building in Manchester - with shots of the buildings in the city which previously housed the exchange, before a brief history of the current building. There is then a feature on the theatre, with shots of its exterior, scenes in the auditorium and the bars, and shots of the Royal Exchange.
 
 
 
THE BRIDGEWATER CANAL
Date: 1981 Film Number: 3321
 
A film about the history of the Bridgewater Canal, commissioned by Francis Edgerton, owner of the Delph mine in Worsley, who wanted to link his mine with Manchester. There are shots of the canal today, and archive pictures and photographs of the canal's former activities. Barges are shown, as well as local houses and anglers on the canalside, and there is discussion of the canal's distinctive orange colour (caused by iron salts) and polluted nature.F
 
 
 
CHAMPIONSHIP DOG SHOWS 1981 [1]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 4078
 
Scenes of Afghan Hounds being shown at Crufts and at an indoor dog show in Manchester. The dogs are paraded around by their owners and inspected by the judges. The winners are seen receiving their prizes. In the Crufts footage, the exterior of Earl's Court is seen, along with general views of the interior and long distance shots of the winners from each breed in the main arena.
 
 
 
CHAMPIONSHIP DOG SHOWS 1981 [2]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 4080
 
Afghan hounds being shown at three dog shows. The first is indoor (location unknown), the second is the indoor "Midland" Championship Show, and the third is outdoors at the Oval, Stanley Park, Blackpool. The dogs are seen being groomed, paraded by their owners and inspected by the judges. Prizes are presented to the winners. In the first dog show, some of the dogs are seen wearing different coloured "coats," with rosettes attached.
 
 
 
[TRIP TO DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN]
Date: *1981 Film Number: 4301
 
Trip by Nigel Rice, Gary Cleary and Gregory Mape to Douglas, Isle of Man - they are seen leaving Liverpool on the ferry, and walking along the front at Douglas. Under-exposed scenes from a museum, showing the different exhibits. They are also seen playing crazy golf and tennis and in their hotel room. Brief scenes from the TT Races conclude.
 
 
 
[GIRLS' GYMNASTICS]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 5374
 
Girls' amateur gymnastics team at Macclesfield Leisure Centre - indoor practice is followed by an outdoor exhibition of floor routines and horse vaulting. The team is then seen indoors doing floor work, the beam and parallel bars followed by a group shot of the team in their tracksuits. Further scenes of outdoor horse vaulting, and the film ends with Sarah Jayne Pownall practising bar work and floor routines in the family garden. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
[ROYAL WEDDING PARTY]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 5375
 
Under-exposed scenes at a swimming pool are followed by the Pownall children at home - playing in the living room and Stuart on his bike outside. A party celebrating the Royal Wedding in 1981 - with children playing games in a garden, while adults look on and enjoy a drink. Back to the swimming pool, and scenes at the Pownall family home at Christmas where Stuart and Sarah Jayne show off their new bicycles and other presents, including Connect Four and KerPlunk. The film ends with a birthday party in a school hall. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
POUND FOR POUND
Date: 1981 Film Number: 6055
 
Comedy produced by the Stockport Cine Society. Eddie is being told off about his weight by his wife, so agrees to join a keep fit class. Eddie's friends see him at the class and start charging others to watch. After his wife finds out that it is a ladies' keep fit class, he suggests taking up jogging instead - she agrees, and Eddie is seen jogging off into the distance - accompanied by a group of women of course.
 
 
 
[ROYAL WEDDING CELEBRATIONS]
Date: 1981 Film Number: 6182
 
Scenes from a street party in Bolton to celebrate the wedding of Charles and Diana. Tables are seen in the middle of the road, and food and drink is served to the children by the adults.
 
 
 
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