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[CARRBROOK AND WOOD END DEVELOPMENT SITE]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2489
 
Opens with footage from the Carrbrook site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), includes shots of incomplete housing and show houses. Also contains footage of new housing on the Wood End site, closes with shots of children playing.
 
 
 
[CONSTRUCTION IN CENTRAL LANCASHIRE AND COMMERCIAL VEHICLE MUSEUM]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2490
 
Opens with shots of new housing at the Wood End site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), includes shots of children playing and foundations for more houses. Continues with footage from British Leyland owned land at Leyland(?). Condemned derelict buildings are seen as is a bricklayer at work. Also features footage shot at Chorley North Industrial Park, including shots of industrial units and builders carrying out various tasks. Closes with shots of the exterior of the commercial vehicle museum at Leyland and exhibits in a courtyard.
 
 
 
[COMMERCIAL VEHICLE MUSEUM AND MOSS SIDE]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2491
 
Opens with footage from the commercial vehicle museum at Leyland, including shots of vehicles and the exterior of the museum. Continues with footage from Moss Side, showing work underway on houses. Closes with shots from Nixon's Farmhouses at Moss Side, including shots of the farmhouse and new housing
 
 
 
[KEY HANDING OVER CEREMONY, PLUNGINGTON]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2492
 
Film showing the handing over of the keys to a new flat on Ripon Street Plungington. Prior to the ceremony two women at Greenbank Day Nursery are seen hanging a banner over a fence - it reads 'Greenbank Day Nursery Welcomes Our New Neighbours'. Children at the nursery are seen waving, a microphone is seen being set up. Continues with footage of a small crowd gathered outside the house. Sir Frank Pearson , Chairman of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships), is seen making a speech. Mr McGuiness, Chairman of the Plungington Trades Association also makes a speech and presents some flowers and wine to Mr and Mrs Nightingale (who are moving into the flat). They are seen being photographed both outside and inside the flat.
 
 
 
[HOUSING AND MECHANICAL DIGGER]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2493
 
Footage of housing at a site of the Central Lancashire Development Coporation (now known as English Partnerships). Also includes shots of a mechanical digger.
 
 
 
[CONSTRUCTION AT CENTRAL LANCASHIRE DEVELOPMENT SITES]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2494
 
Aerial footage of various sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of Red Scar, Roman Way, Bamber Bridge, Clayton Brook, Carr Brook, Chorley North and Eaves Green. Features footage of factory units, partially built housing and new roads.
 
 
 
[CENTRAL LANCASHIRE CONSTRUCTION AND GOLF COURSE]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2495
 
Aerial footage of various sites of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships). Includes shots of Moss Side, Lostock View, Pope Lane, Broadgate and Sherwood. Features footage of housing and construction works, East Fulwood Distributor Road is seen under construction. Also includes footage of Ingol Golf Course.
 
 
 
[SCHOOL MAYPOLE DANCING AND OTHER SCENES]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2696
 
Footage of a school maypolling event at Guilden Sutton village Fair - children weave in and out of each other, all holding ribbons attached to the maypole. There is then footage of organised horse-riding for children in a special paddock, a shot of a small girl sitting on a tractor, and a smalll terrier getting out of a car.
 
 
 
[SHOPPING CENTRE MAYPOLE DANCING]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2697
 
Footage of children maypolling in The Forum shopping centre in Chester, just in front of Martin Dawes.
 
 
 
[CHILDREN'S FOLK DAY, OSWALDTWISTLE]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2911
 
Scenes of a children's folk dancing performance in a school hall, followed by exterior shots of St Mary's Clog and Country Dancing Club in the street.
 
 
 
[HOLLY HOLY DAY]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2912
 
Shots of activities organised by the Sealed Knot Society in Nantwich to commemorate the anniversary of the siege of Nantwich. It includes children performing seventeenth century dances, a military drill and other historical scenes.
 
 
 
[RUFFORD REVELRY 1983]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 2913
 
Event organised by the National Trust at Rufford Old Hall, a tudor house near Southport. There are medieval events, recreations, and morris and folk dancing.
 
 
 
[MIDDLETON PACE EGG PLAY]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3035
 
A performance by the Middleton Pace Egg players in Middleton.
 
 
 
GARDEN PARTY, CRAWSHAWBROOK: ROCHDALE MORRIS DANCERS
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3039
 
Footage of Rochdale Mixed Morris Dancers performing at a garden party in Crawshawbooth.
 
 
 
LAST NIGHT AT THOMPSON HOUSE
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3396
 
Footage of the last night of the Thompson contract print works on Withy Grove in Manchester. Workers are seen drinking, cheering defiantly, and distributing pornographic magazines. One man is in fancy dress, and another receives a chorus of 'Happy Birthday'. The final section of the film shows an event held for the workers in a club, where union reps rail against Robert Maxwell (whose actions closed the plant) and the national unions, and praises the local union branch.
 
 
 
[NEW NEWSPAPER PREMISES]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3397
 
Footage of new newspaper premises in Manchester, with some former employees from Thompson contract print works examining the new computerised facilities.
 
 
 
[NAVAL MARCH PAST]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3448
 
The filmmaker's son passes out of the Navy. Footage of Naval personnel marching around an arena, playing musical instruments and performing various drill exercises. Shot in Portsmouth.
 
 
 
[VISIT TO LION SALT WORKS]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3598
 
Visit to the Lion Salt Works at Marston near Northwich in Cheshire. There are shots in the Pump House, and scenes of the saltmaking process. There are shots of a large steaming vat, of containers filled with salt and a large block of salt.
 
 
 
[MEDIAEVAL TOURNAMENT AND WEST HEATH FETE]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3599
 
Scenes from a 'mediaeval tournament' held in Congleton. After shots of the site being prepared, there is footage of mock battles in costume, sheep races, shire horse displays, jousting and chariot racing. There are also shots of a spit roast, various stalls and the watching public. Other footage features a fete held at West Heath Hospital, with various stalls and games, attended by the Mayor and the local MP, Nicholas Winterton.
 
 
 
[MILKRACE GOES THROUGH CONGLETON]
Date: 1983 Film Number: 3604
 
Footage of participants in cycling's Milk Race as it passes through Congleton town centre.
 
 
 
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