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Searched For: All Keywords./ Subject Area: Wartime
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MAYORAL PROCESSION / [GRACIE FIELDS HOMECOMING]
Date: 1940/1 Film Number: 553
 
Procession of the Mayor and Mayoress of Rochdale through the town, the Mayor takes a salute. (b/w) Gracie Fields is greeted by cheering crowds. (colour) [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
[WELSH WARTIME SCENES]
Date: 1940-41 Film Number: 4007
 
Footage of a group of children enjoying a horse and cart ride. Also an oil cloud can be seen after the bombing of Pembroke Dock. Views of Orielton, Pembrokeshire and of construction work in the grounds. Beach scenes and views of Mary Gaddum horse riding and grooming a horse and pony.
 
 
 
[NORMA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY AND FAMILY GET-TOGETHER]
Date: *1940-2 Film Number: 4426
 
Scenes from Norma's birthday party, with the guests enjoying tea, followed by party games, including attempting to eat apples hanging from string. The Hart family are seen having tea, accompanied by Ken Ayrton in his RAF uniform, and then at a family get-together in the sitting room, singing songs and watching one family member dressing up as a comedy character. 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/
 
 
 
[LAUNCHING A TRAWLER]
Date: *1940/1/2 Film Number: 4437
 
A fishing trawler is seen being launched at a shipyard - men remove the wooden props and the ship slides into the water. There are views of a French submarine, and in wartime Fleetwood, a parade of servicemen and women passes in front of the town hall.
 
 
 
[SNOW PLOUGHS IN BOLTON AND WARTIME SCENES]
Date: 1940-2 Film Number: 7302
 
Winter scenes in Bolton and two men in uniform posing for the camera with young Bill Hart. After a brief shot of soldiers marching along a street, there is footage of thick snow on Blackburn Road in Bolton and horses pulling snow ploughs to clear the road. The remainder of the reel features an army corporal and a sailor with Bill Hart on the same road and in a garden, where the sailor does a jig. Ends with Bill out in the countryside on his bicycle accompanied by his dog. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011]
 
 
 
[GARDEN SCENES + WORKS TRIP TO BLACKPOOL]
Date: 1940-44 Film Number: 2609
 
Scenes in a garden: women pruning flowers; two young girls grooming a horse, playing on a horse, sunbathing and walking around. The whole family then gathers around with the dogs for the camera. An elderly couple walk in the garden, there is then a formal walk (possibly a whit walk), and finally a roadside picnic. There is footage of a work's outing to Blackpool, groups lining up beside buses, and then a very indistinct view from what seems to be the tower. More mixed footage: a street procession; girls playing in the garden with the dog, trains departing from a station being waved off, street scenes in Manchester and then more scenes of the family in the garden playing with the dog.
 
 
 
[OLDHAM - OUTSIDE]
Date: c1940 Film Number: 4044
 
Family footage shot in and around Oldham - children are seen in a garden (including the donor's mother, aged one), on their bikes in the street, playing in the snow, in the alley behind their home, and with the family in a park and in the countryside, including views of a large boating lake. The little girl tries on a gas mask, and there is footage of a fire-hose training exercise - the men are not in uniform (possibly ARP training).
 
 
 
[A WEDDING AND FIREWORKS]
Date: 1940-9 Film Number: 3136
 
After a shot of army personnel demonstrating guns to small children, there are scenes of a wedding, with the bride entering the church, the happy couple posing for photographs, assembled guests with their hats, flowers and footage of the church exterior. There is then a short sequence of fireworks.
 
 
 
[GARDENS, WEDDINGS AND SNOW]
Date: 1940-44 Film Number: 2613
 
Very brief shot of a woman in bridal wear, followed by a flash of a river and a lake. There are garden scenes: a woman hoeing, picking flowers, digging and then there are more garden scenes: gardening, people drinking and then what seems like a rehearsal for a wedding. A pair of girls repeatedly walk down a stretch of path in different clothes, followed by footage of snow - the garden covered over with it, roads with a layer of it, a man clearing a path and a woman struggling to walk in it. Another man amuses himself by throwing snowballs. In another scene, a mayor and mayoress enter and then leave a building. There is footage of crowds going to some event.
 
 
 
[WALKING THE BABY]
Date: 1940-9 Film Number: 1214
 
Shots of a couple leaving the house with a baby, putting it into a pram and taking it for a walk. This man is previously seen getting into a car, and wears a military-style uniform throughout. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
[Cox Family Activities]
Date: c1940-45 Film Number: 1463
 
Two young girls are seen running up and down a shoreline splashing each other in the sea, while other family members enjoy a game of ball on the beach. Also includes footage shot at a cricket match (males against females) and a family wedding.
 
 
 
[CHILDREN PLAYING IN THE STREETS AND A SCHOOL PLAYGROUND]
Date: c1940-45 Film Number: 1526
 
Scenes of children going to school and playing in the school playground. Also includes family footage of a woman playing with a black cat; children swinging on a rope tied around a lamp post in the street and a little girl pegging out clothes on a washing line.
 
 
 
DAD'S ARMY AS I SAW IT
Date: 1940-45 Film Number: 5320
 
Record of the 29th Battalion Burnley Home Guard and local celebrations at the end of the war. Home Guard footage sees members training, parading, learning tactics and using secret weapons. After newspaper headlines declare the end of the war there are scenes from the events and celebrations that follow. These include a Victory Ball at Burnley Mechanics, a street party, a concert party in Towneley Park, VE Night celebrations outside the town hall, a Victory Fire at Fulledge Recreation Ground, and a Thanksgiving Service at St Peter's Church. Ends with footage from a ceremony at Towneley Park at which members of the various Civic Defence groups 'stand down'. For more information about this film-maker, and to view other films made by him, please visit the Sam Hanna section of the North West Film Archive website by pasting the following link into your browser- http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/sam_hanna_collection.html
 
 
 
[THE WEDDING OF JOAN RENDELL'S COUSIN]
Date: 1940-46 Film Number: 4119
 
The wedding of Joan's cousin Geoffrey to Hélène Pierpoint is seen at St Peter's Church in Hale, with the wedding party before and after the ceremony. Different members of the Hill and Welch families are seen at a variety of different locations - in the garden at Ballabeg, on the sea front at Rhyl, enjoying Christmas Dinner in 1944. The Welch family are also seen in the garden at "Lombard House," the family's home in Hale. The film ends with two of the Welch sons being bathed in the sink and the bath.
 
 
 
[HOME, HOLIDAYS AND MANCHESTER CAR RALLY]
Date: 1940-46 Film Number: 8862
 
Compilation of Dorning family leisure scenes - holidays in Wales, Devon and Shropshire - including boats, picnics and fun on the farm; children playing and marching round in the garden, and out with sledges in the snow; school sports day activities; also local footage of a vintage car rally in Manchester city centre, and brownies and guides gathering for a post-war victory parade.
 
 
 
[GETTING MARRIED]
Date: 1940s Film Number: 871
 
A family wedding - guests, followed by the bridesmaids and page boy, and then the bride and bride's father leave the house. Shots outside the church after the wedding.
 
 
 
[MILITARY PARADE WARRINGTON]
Date: c1940s Film Number: 1202
 
Military parade through the streets of Warrington. The procession starts at Bank Park and proceeds through Crosfield Street and Market Gate. Soldiers are seen marching past the Mayor wearing their medals and saluting. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]
 
 
 
[WARTIME WEDDINGS]
Date: c1940s Film Number: 1458
 
The Griffiths family are seen attending a couple of wartime weddings in Edinburgh and Bramhall. Also includes footage shot at the outdoor swimming pool at Grange Over Sands and a couple of children playing in a village square next to a water pump.
 
 
 
[CHURCHILL AND COUNTRYSIDE]
Date: c1940s Film Number: 1459
 
Film starts with a high angle shot of the crowds awaiting the arrival of Winston Churchill during his visit to Manchester after the war. Also includes scenes of the Griffiths family on holiday in the Lake District; down on Henblas Farm; watching a Yorkshire cricket match and attending a swimming gala at Grange.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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