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| [FAMILY WEDDING IN WHALLEY RANGE] | |||
| Date: c1940 Film Number: 1269 | |||
| Wedding guests arriving at a church in Whalley Range. Includes shots of the bride and groom having their photographs taken in the church yard. | |||
| [DEAN ROAD HASLINGDEN] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 1989 | |||
| Various scenes and activities taking place on Dean Road in Haslingden in 1940. Includes shots of the street in winter - men are seen shovelling snow from the pavement and roads. Further scenes include children playing with a skipping rope and having a game of ring-a-ring-of-roses in the middle of the road. The film also includes brief shots of a woman feeding a goat over a garden gate; a group of children lined up outside a house waiting to see a film show at Mr Moorhouse's "Cinema"; a young boy filling a car with petrol outside a garage and a family group attending a wedding and standing in their back garden. | |||
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| [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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| [RELAXING IN HAMMOCKS] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 2139 | |||
| A man and a woman are seen relaxing in hammocks in the Behrens family garden; May 1940. The adults, including Mrs Behrens take it in turns to ride a child's bicycle. The bike has four wheels and is propelled forward, by a quick push/pull movement on the handle bars, known as the "push-me-pull-you". 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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| "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. | |||
| [THE WEDDING OF STANLEY BROWN AND EDNA PARKINSON] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 6219 | |||
| Scenes from the wedding of Stanley Brown and Edna Parkinson, 4 May 1940. The couple are seen leaving St Cuthbert's Church, Lytham St Anne's following the service and there are scenes from the reception at the Clifton Arms Hotel - guests are seen eating and drinking, speeches are made and the cake is cut. The couple are then seen on route to the station, where they board a train and head off on honeymoon. | |||
| 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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| MARRIAGE OF MISS IDA PEARSON WITH MR FREDRICK JACKSON AT ST JAMES' CHURCH BIRCH-IN-RUSHOLME | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 6995 | |||
| Scenes from the wedding of Ida Pearson and Fredrick Jackson showing guests, the vicar and Ida the bride with her father arriving at St James' church in Birch-in-Rusholme. The newly-weds appear from the church entrance followed by their family and friends. Celebrations continue with black and white footage of the couple and guests are seen sat at their wedding reception listening to after dinner speeches. Colour footage shows the wedding party in a garden posing for photographs, friends decorating the back of a car and the newly wedded couple in their going away outfits leaving the reception as people wave them farewell. | |||
| [ST ANNES, SEPT. 1940] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 7800 | |||
| Brickhill family holiday to St Annes in 1940 - family and friends are seen by the beach huts. The children play in the sand before eating ice-creams by the car. The adults are seen sitting in deckchairs reading the newspapers and knitting while the children lark around on the dunes, but soon eveyone joins in. 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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| EVACUATED | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 8403 | |||
| A day at a St. George's Home for Boys which was run by the Waifs and Strays society. The boys and staff were evacuated to Pont-y-Pant in North Wales in 1939. The morning starts off with gargling before the boys head to school. While the boys are at school, the matron does the housework and the master does the gardening. During their lunch break, the boys go for a walk and look at sheep and their lamb in the fields. It starts to snow as they head back to school. After school, the boys have more work to do, helping out with chores. Some of the boys have their cut. The day ends with a game of marbles. | |||
| [HOME GUARD TRAINING AND CAMPING] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 5522 | |||
| Footage showing members of the Home Guard training and being shown how to correctly use a weapon. The film contains images of the Home Guard marching along streets to a church, with onlookers watching as they go past. Flags are waved and a military band marches with the soldiers. At the end of the film an army camp can be seen with soldiers using a makeshift kitchen outdoors to cook food and feed the rest of the troops at the camp. | |||
| [MALPAS SCENES 1940] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 7769 | |||
| Scenes in Malpas, Cheshire during WWII - includes Home Guard and fire training exercises, winter scenes with children having snowball fights and an ice-hockey match. A retirement ceremony for the school's Deputy Head and the funeral of Rector A.R. Parker are followed by scenes of children fishing, playing and dining in the garden. Empire Day at Malpas school with the raising of the Union flag. Evacuees go for a walk in the hills, there's a trip to Southport and events during National Savings Week in the village, plus a visit by Czechoslovakian soldiers. The Home Guard are seen practising shooting, the Church choir receives a visit by Sir Sydney Nicholson, and the film ends with a trip to Chorlton Old Hall farm. | |||
| ST ANNES ON THE SEA WHIT WEEK 1940 [AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 7787 | |||
| Footage of the Brickhill family at Lytham, St Annes. The film begins with brief shots of the Brickhills loading luggage into their cars at Fulshaw Cottage in Cheshire. At Lytham, the group play at the beach; the children make sandcastles and the adults have a game of French cricket and rest in deck chairs beside the beach huts. There are then shots of pony rides on the beach, peddle and motor boats on the boating lake and Mr Brickhill swimming at the Lido. | |||
| [THE BRICKHILLS AND BABY JOHN HENZILL] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 7804 | |||
| Footage of the Brickhills at home with friends and family in Cheshire, 1940. John, the elderly dog is lying on the lawn as young David attempts to play with him. We then see a brief shot of a military plane circling overhead in the distance. We then see baby John Henzill with David as she plays with croquet balls and shuffles across the lawn in his nappy, followed by shots of the Brickhills and others laughing. | |||
| [ST ANNES - WHITSUNTIDE] | |||
| Date: May 1940 Film Number: 7812 | |||
| Film of the Brickhills and friends sat in deck chairs by the beach huts in St Annes, Lytham. The adults lark around beside the beach huts and the children eat ice creams; they are then seen running down the sand dunes and having piggyback rides. There are shots of the adults horse riding on the beach followed by the children play in the sand, enjoying pony rides and finally paddling in the sea with their nannies and dogs. | |||
| [DAVID BRICKHILL PLAYING IN THE GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 7785 | |||
| Film of young child, David Brickhill, playing in the garden of their family home in Cheshire with his mother and grandmother. He is shown walking among the flower bed and then running around in his underwear wearing an adult top hat. We also see his grandfather smoking a pipe and his grandmother knitting. | |||
| [FAMILY SCENES AND STEAM TRAINS] | |||
| Date: 1940s -1950s Film Number: 3099 | |||
| After footage of the countryside, there are scenes of children setting up desks in a ruined building, and then of various children playing with tricycles and other toys. Miscellaneous scenes include a mother and baby, a woman strolling in a garden, children playing in a toy car, children in the street, soldiers in transport vehicles and close-ups of tulips. After a sequence of a biplane taking off, there is footage of passing steam trains. | |||
| MANCHESTER TOOK IT TOO | |||
| Date: 1940/41 Film Number: 176 | |||
| Scenes of the Blitz damage to Manchester and the clearing up operations - shows the old Market Place, Corporation Street, the CWS building, Mitchell Hall, Piccadilly, Old Shambles, the Free Trade Hall, the Royal Exchange and the Cathedral. The work of clearing up is being done by firemen, soldiers and civilians, using a steam engine and a crane. | |||
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