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Record 9970 – 9989 of 11529
| [CARNIVAL 1981] | |||
| Date: 1981 Film Number: 11188 | |||
| Scenes from Bollington Carnival 1981. The parade takes place on a wet day. We see people marching in fancy dress, floats and carnival queens and princesses. There is a Scottish Piper Band, and floats representing various local organisations such as the Spinners Arms and the Royal Oak Cricket Club. On the carnival field a ceremony takes place. Carnival queens and princesses from nearby towns curtsy to the Bollington Carnival Queen and Princess before they are crowned. We see morris dancers and other dance troupes, and people stand around eating and drinking. | |||
| [UNIDENTIFIED WEDDING] | |||
| Date: 1981 Film Number: 11189 | |||
| Scenes from a wedding. The film opens with brief shots of people getting ready at home. The wedding guests arrive at church, and then the bridal party. We see brief shots inside the church and then afterwards people pose outside the church for photos. People stand around and confetti is thrown. At the reception the cake is cut, toasts are drunk and cards are read out. | |||
| [CHORLTON EES AND BROWNHILL VISITOR CENTRE, TAME VALLEY] | |||
| Date: *1981 Film Number: 8921 | |||
| Rushes for a film production about Greater Manchester country parks. This reel features the unpaved paths, wildflowers and some of the people - adults and children - walking through Chorlton Ees. There are also scenes at Brownhill Visitor Centre in the Tame Valley - exterior shots of the building, and visitors looking at displays inside the centre. The reel ends with scenes on a canal towpath, where people are walking or fishing. | |||
| [TAME VALLEY COUNTRY PARK AND HOLLINGWORTH LAKE] | |||
| Date: *1981 Film Number: 8922 | |||
| Rushes for a film production about Greater Manchester country parks. This reel features walkers and cyclists out on the canal towpaths in Tame Valley, while others sit quietly, talking or fishing. There are also scenes at Hollingworth Lake, where people are seen out in boats, windsurfing, or just eating ice lollies and enjoying the sunshine. | |||
| [MOSES GATE COUNTRY PARK, FARNWORTH] | |||
| Date: *1981 Film Number: 8927 | |||
| Rushes for a film production about Greater Manchester country parks. This reel features scenes around Moses Gate Country Park, where a lot of people are enjoying the hot weather, walking, sunbathing, eating ice cream, or going out in inflatable boats on the lake. | |||
| [RAY STREET MARRIES MARGARET DARKIN] | |||
| Date: *1981 Film Number: 11903 | |||
| The wedding takes place at St. Luke's Church in Goosetrey and begins with shots of the church then the bridesmaids followed by the bride and her father arriving in their wedding cars before entering the church. The bride and groom exit the church and pose for photographs with the rest of the wedding party. The happy couple depart in the wedding car as confetti is thrown. The film ends with guests arriving for the reception at 'The Edge' Hotel in Alderley Edge in Cheshire. | |||
| [RUTH IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: *1981 Film Number: 11912 | |||
| Ruth in the garden, close up of various flowers and views of the garden. | |||
| [A KITTEN] | |||
| Date: *1981 Film Number: 11913 | |||
| Playing with a kitten, Katto? in the garden then close up of the kitten sat on a windowsill and climbing a tree. | |||
| [LOWER WITHINGTON ROSE QUEEN 1981] | |||
| Date: 1981 Film Number: 11928 | |||
| A young man on horseback leads a girls’ dance troupe and a marching brass band in the 1981 Lower Withington Rose Queen Festival. Decorated floats and people in fancy dress collecting money for charity are followed by a Morris dancing troupe and the Rose Queens in a vintage convertible car and a horse-drawn carriage. At the showground the brass band accompanies the Rose Queen coronation ceremony followed by competitions and prize giving for fancy dress, best decorated floats and bicycles. The film ends with children dancing around the May pole and a Morris dancing demonstration. | |||
| A YEAR'S EVENTS IN NANTWICH, CHESHIRE | |||
| Date: 1981-2 Film Number: 2932 | |||
| Scenes from the Nantwich folklore calendar - Scottish country dancing and children maypolling in the town centre, a medieval fair with stall holders dressed in costume and mediaeval street entertainment, morris dancing. women clog dancers and blacked-up morrismen. The film ends with a re-enactment of the Battle of Nantwich. | |||
| [SARAH & STUART 1981-2] | |||
| Date: 1981-2 Film Number: 5387 | |||
| Compilation film featuring the Pownall children - Sarah and Stuart. They are seen in the garden with friends, on a slide into a paddling pool. There are brief shots of the garden undergoing landscaping work, and a skip being lifted onto a truck, before scenes of fireworks in the garden, sledging on the snowy street, and the children playing with toys at Christmas. The chidren are seen trampolining at Macclesfield Leisure Centre, roller-skating and on holiday in North Wales - on the beach, at a fairground and visiting the Duke of Lancaster ship at Mostyn. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [TO JAPAN WITH PANASONIC] | |||
| Date: *1981/2 Film Number: 6314 | |||
| Scenes from a trip to Japan by Richard and Jean Thompson, probably organised by Panasonic. Views around Mount Fuji, various ornamental parks and gardens, and of people at a temple. There are scenes in a large city, aerial views of mountains taken from a plane, and examples of some Japanese trains including the Bullet Train. | |||
| [MARPLE BOAT RALLY AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1981/2 Film Number: 10349 | |||
| Compilation reel of family home and leisure footage, including a trip on a canal boat and a ride on a miniature railway. There are scenes at a caravan site and a family get-together at home, with people socialising and larking about. There are brief shots of an illuminated tram, and the reel ends with family members out and about, and a dog happily digging a hole. | |||
| [CONGLETON EVENTS] | |||
| Date: 1981-3 Film Number: 3600 | |||
| Film of activities of the Lions Organisation of Congleton. They are seen constructing an Egyptian-themed float for inclusion in a procession through Congleton town centre, helping to set up a fete at West Heath Hospital, and a "fooderama" at West Heath Shopping Centre. Other scenes include a firework display organised by the Rotary Club and a welly-throwing contest. | |||
| [ROLLER DISCO] | |||
| Date: c1982 Film Number: 5393 | |||
| Underexposed scenes of youngsters at a roller disco held in a sports hall. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [LLANDDWYN ISLAND AND SYMONDS YAT] | |||
| Date: c1982 Film Number: 10318 | |||
| Holiday scenes in Wales and Herefordshire, including locations on Llanddwyn Island on a blustery day, and views from the vantage point at Symonds Yat. | |||
| [A WEDDING AND A SUMMER GARDEN PARTY] | |||
| Date: c1982 Film Number: 10948 | |||
| The film opens with scenes from a wedding. Family and guests including the groom wearing an air force uniform, the bridesmaid and bride with her father arrive at the church. After the ceremony we see the bride and groom walking under a guard of honour. We then see the Brice family gathering at a summer garden party. | |||
| [BRICE FAMILY SCENES INCLUDING A WEDDING AND A CHRISTENING] | |||
| Date: c1982 Film Number: 10949 | |||
| The film opens with scenes from a wedding. The bride and groom are wearing matching white tuxedos and the wedding looks to have taken place in a register office. We see family members with a baby after a christening. There are brief scenes from a trip to Rhodes. We also see family scenes filmed in the garden including a baby in a baby walker and on a swing. | |||
| [MARK AND KATHY] | |||
| Date: 1981-3 Film Number: 12222 | |||
| Family scenes from the Leach family, we see the children, Mark and Kathy, having fun at various events. The film opens with Christmas scenes. A mince pie and a glass of sherry has been left for Santa. Mark hangs his stocking and helps Kathy with hers. We then see Kathy crawling up the stairs. There are more Christmas scenes, We see piles of toys and the extended family in the sitting room. The children eat cereals and play with headphones. We then see them in the bath. The children play in a pub car park, and then on holiday they play football on a foreign beach with their Dad. We later see the three of them in a dinghy in the sea. Back home there are more Christmas scenes and we see the children playing in the street. They attend a cricket match and we see them playing on a beach building sand castles and later having a picnic. There are scenes from a family trip to Jodrell Bank, followed by scenes of the children playing in the garden. | |||
| [CONGLETON PROCESSION AND MEDIAEVAL TOURNAMENT] | |||
| Date: 1981/3 Film Number: 3597 | |||
| Footage from the two events in Congleton; floats and various local groups are seen processing down a street in Congleton town centre. Floats include depictions of Doctor Who and Playschool, representatives from the Rotary Club and Sale Rugby Club and one from a local pub. Beauty and Rose Queens adorn other floats, and members of the procession include a team of motorcyclists, brass bands, a Chinese dragon and morris dancers. In the 'tournament', fairground rides are viewed, and there are displays by parachutists and the Red Arrows. | |||
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