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Searched For: world war 1
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| LORD DERBY VISITS FARNWORTH | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 883 | |||
| Lord Derby visits Farnworth and lays a wreath at the war memorial - a procession including the mayor and mace bearer, ex-service amputees, girl guides and boy scouts. Bolton's War Weapon Week, October 26th - November 2nd 1940 - another procession of soldiers, armoured cars and gun carriers; shot of a captured German aircraft; the procession makes its way to St. Bedes Parish Church. | |||
| REFUGE | |||
| Date: c1940s(?) Film Number: 930 | |||
| A historical drama - the true story of a French peasant woman who was presented to King George V in 1927, in honour of her heroism during the First World War. | |||
| [HASLINGDEN HOME GUARD] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 1990 | |||
| Film featuring members of Haslingden Home Guard on parade in 1940. They are seen leaving the Drill Hall on Bury Road, Haslingden and marching down a country lane. Concludes with brief footage of the men undergoing exercise manoeuvres and training at Victoria Park and Whitaker Park in Rawtenstall. | |||
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| "A" COY. 15. E.L. HOME GUARD 1940 | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 2754 | |||
| Film of Lostock Home Guard. Members are seen preparing a trench, complete with sandbags - a guardsman is seen standing in a trench training a gun on an imaginary enemy. Members of the Home Guard are also seen at a shooting range and being drilled in the use of rifles and bayonets. The guardsmen are also seen milling around after being dismissed from parade. | |||
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| CAVE DWELLERS 1940 | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 6151 | |||
| Tongue-in-cheek film about the 'panic' caused by German air raids. Mr and Mrs Want are seen taking supplies into the air raid shelter in the back garden. On hearing the air raid siren, the family, friends and neighbours calmly make their way to the shelter, where they are seen smoking, chatting, knitting and making tea. Film ends with the air raid warden giving the all clear - everyone in the shelter has fallen asleep though. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| [THE TAYLOR WEDDING 1940 AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 6152 | |||
| Brief views of a dog and a man playing with a tennis training machine in a garden are followed by scenes from the wedding of Kenneth Taylor and Winifred Taylor at Holyrood Church, Moorside on 11 May 1940. The film ends with a young couple out and about in the countryside. | |||
| MENNONITE RELIEF IN ENGLAND: 1940 WAR RELIEF: TAXAL EDGE- A CONVALESCENT HOME FOR BOYS | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 6956 | |||
| Footage of the Taxal Edge convalescent home for boys. Begins with shots of bombed out buildings in an unidentified location and children obtaining drinks from a mobile canteen van. A group of boys arrive by steam train are greeted by nurses and staff at Taxal Edge home. Scenes show the boys having health checks, helping with household chores, feeding chickens, playing with animals and walking in the countryside. Also includes shots of the boys outside being served meals by nurses, playing darts, washing the home's van and finally saying goodbye to staff. The reel ends with the departure of the boys before the next group arrives. | |||
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| FAMILY ALBUM [PARTS 1 & 2] | |||
| Date: c1940s Film Number: 1534 | |||
| Wilkinson family footage. Includes brief domestic interior shots of the family home; holidays in Fleetwood, Southport, Ogmore, Scarborough, Lyme Regis; and a group of school children rambling in the Derbyshire and Cheshire countryside. Also includes scenes of a woman scrubbing her doorstep and two young children leaving the house carrying gas mask boxes. | |||
| [SNOW DRIFTS IN BURY] | |||
| Date: c1940s Film Number: 1626 | |||
| Footage of the Hardman family's house and garden during the winter of 1947 [?] - A group of men are seen trying to dig a path through the snow drifts and abandoned cars. Further scenes include shots of the family cat; men working in the garden planting shrubs and interior shots of the greenhouse. | |||
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| [CORONATION AND VE DAY CELEBRATIONS; HOME GUARD] | |||
| Date: 1940-3/5/53 Film Number: 6261 | |||
| Celebrations for the 1953 Coronation are seen in Heaton Mersey - a procession sets off from the war memorial along Didsbury Road, are there are scenes from a tree-planting ceremony. On VE Day people are seen dancing in the street, accompanied by a band, and there is footage of members of the Home Guard marching through the streets of Heaton Mersey during the war. | |||
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| ALERT! | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 145 | |||
| The film records an ARP exercise in Burnley, on 23rd November 1941. Reel 1: The role played by the ARP wardens during an air raid - includes women and children entering a shelter, and the rescue and resuscitation of a driver from a burning car. Reel 2: Firemen fight a fire in a bombed out terrace - a child is rescued; stretchered injured are taken to hospital - they are shown having treatment. The all-clear siren sounds and the people come out of the shelter - counted by the warden. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| LIVERPOOL 1941 | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 5592 | |||
| Record of bomb damage suffered by the city of Liverpool after the blitz of May 1941. After opening shots of the Pier Head there are scenes of ruined streets and damaged buildings throughout the city including Custom House, St Nicholas and St Luke's churches, the Corn Exchange, Lewis's department store and the docks. | |||
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| FAMILY SCRAPBOOK [1941/2] | |||
| Date: 1941/2 Film Number: 4397 | |||
| Judith and Kathryn Wain are seen skipping in the garden and playing with Bunty the rabbit and the family dog. The girls are sent out by their mother to go blackberry picking in Bowlacre Wood. Kathryn celebrates her 7th birthday, and the girls are seen playing in the snow in 1942 and with baby brother Peter in the garden in summer. A Remembrance Day parade of boy scouts is seen on route to St George's Church in Hyde in 1942, and there is a brief scene from a Wain family holiday to Llandudno. | |||
| [GRIFFITHS FAMILY ALBUM] | |||
| Date: 1941-1948 Film Number: 8931 | |||
| Compilation of Griffith family events from 1941 to 1948. Opens with dad, Eric Griffiths, playing with baby David. Children are seen out on a walk. David is playing in the garden with sister Pat and brother Peter in the garden at home in Blackburn and paddling and enjoying the beach in Blackpool. Another baby, a daughter, is born. More scenes of the children playing, including Peter pretending to be Pat dancing. Scenes on VE Day show the children burying gas masks and other wartime objects in the garden and stamping on an effigy of Adolf Hitler. The family is growing up and enjoy spending time with their Uncle Percy. There are snowy scenes during the big freeze of Winter 1947 and a holiday in the Lake District. | |||
| CHORLEY SUBSCRIPTION BOWLING GREEN JUNE 1942 | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 812 | |||
| Bowlers on the Chorley Subscription Bowling Green. First aid training for the Home Guard - a man is stretchered and taken to a waiting ambulance. Windsor Park League Cup winners - the team pass around the cup whilst posing for a photograph. Mayor's procession - includes men and women in uniform, girl guides,boy scouts and policemen; a wreath laying ceremony at the war memorial; a shot of USA link Captain Larry Doyle. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE MOBILIZING PROCEDURE | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 838 | |||
| Shows how the formation of the National Fire Service in 1941 created multiple subdivisions for the control of wartime firefighting. Diagrams are used, together with footage of Communications HQ. Factory fires - fire crews are mobilised. | |||
| HOLIDAYS AT HOME 1942 [WIGAN AREA] | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 1520 | |||
| Local people engaged in various activities in the week of July 4th-11th, 1942. Includes canal boat trips and entertainments at 'Callenders Pleasure Field'. These involve stalls, Punch and Judy shows and trapeze artists. Continues with shots of, and from, a canal boat and footage of people going back to work. After 'the End' there is footage of a trick motor cyclist, a miniature railway and doves perched on a woman. | |||
| [ROYAL VISITS AND CEREMONIES IN WARTIME] | |||
| Date: 1942-4/6/8 Film Number: 5415 | |||
| Royal visits to Wilmslow by Queen Consort Elizabeth in June 1948, and George VI and Elizabeth in 1946, followed by a military procession where soldiers are cheered by a crowd including Umbro workers. Montgomery reviews the troops in Albert Square in April 1948. After shots of a cat, there are scenes from 'Salute the Soldier' week in 1944 - 'Men of Arnhem' lead a parade, including the Land Army, to the Rex Cinema to update a savings target. A Field Day at the Carrs, with dancing and dog displays, exercise drills and marching, including American GIs. Finally we see the ceremony of the exchange of plaques as Wilmslow 'adopts' HMS Winchelsea in 1943. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| [GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA FILMS - THE WAR YEARS] | |||
| Date: *1942/45 Film Number: 57 | |||
| Six short items to promote the war effort - 1. The battle for fuel 2. National Savings Help Reconstruction 3. Food flash - warning not to throw food away 4. Food flash - describes how to keep food fresh 5. Food flash - cod liver oil and orange juice for children 6. Food flash - powdered milk is a good standby | |||
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| [NELSON HOME GUARD 1942/46] | |||
| Date: 1942/46 Film Number: 1263 | |||
| The Nelson Home Guard fighting a mock battle in the middle of a bombed out street probably at the Home Guard Street fighting school in Birmingham. Includes scenes of the men practising fighting techniques and drills. | |||
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