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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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| [JUNE MILLER'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, 1941] | |||
| Date: 1941 Film Number: 6220 | |||
| June Miller and friends are seen in the garden playing with a rocking horse. Balloons are released in the garden and toys and games are hung in trees for the children. June is seen on her new bike and the children enjoy a party tea. At the end of the day, June has a bath, says her prayers and is seen eating supper in bed. | |||
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| [IN THE FRONT GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1940s Film Number: 11417 | |||
| In the front garden of a suburban house a man in a sargeant's uniform is joined by a man in a wedding suit as they both enjoy a cigarette while a woman picks flowers in the background. | |||
| [SCENES IN THE GRIFFITHS FAMILY GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1941-42 Film Number: 1456 | |||
| The Griffiths family relax in the back garden of their suburban house in Carrwood Avenue. Includes scenes of a man wearing a navy uniform playing with a dog; two women hoeing the flower beds and other family members larking around pretending to march up and down the garden carrying a mop. Other footage includes scenes taken in and around Oxford and Bramhall Hall. | |||
| 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. | |||
| COUNTY BOROUGH OF PRESTON INVASION EXERCISES | |||
| Date: c1942 Film Number: 6199 | |||
| Film documenting a number of training exercises in Preston during World War II. Scenes inside the control centre are followed by firemen and ARP wardens putting out 'fires' at Horrockses Mill and the gas works, as well as rescuing casualties from several different buildings. A mobile canteen truck provides sustenance and the film ends with views of a meeting at the Town Hall. | |||
| [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. | |||
| [YOUNG KEITH AT PLAY AND ON HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: 1941-51 Film Number: 7201 | |||
| Keith Hodkinson as a young boy and teenager, filmed in various locations with his parents and friends. He is seen on a day out at Belle Vue Zoo, on holiday on the South Coast of England and in North Wales. At home in Romiley, Keith is shown riding a bike, going to school and inside a comics stall that has been set up in the front drive. There are garden scenes featuring Keith, his family and the pet dog, together with trips to the countryside and seaside. Concludes with shots of a new house being built. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| OPENING DAY SHAW HILL | |||
| Date: *1941/42/47 Film Number: 815 | |||
| Various scenes including a drill display; a group shot of an American baseball team; golfers at Shaw Hill; a large group in the grounds of Billinge Scar; on board ship - views out to sea; on the beach; the steamer returns. | |||
| ROADSENSE FOR CHILDREN | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 123 | |||
| This is a police information film set in Salford. A school in a quiet country lane in Broughton-in-Furness is contrasted with a school in the busy industrial area of Broughton in Salford. Here, a boy runs into the street, is knocked down by a car and taken to hospital by ambulance. The following sequences show a policewoman teaching children their kerb drill; a young girl helping an absent-minded man to cross the road; older children helping younger children to cross; a teacher and pupils in a playground learning road safety; and finally a sequence showing where it is safe to play, which features children's games. | |||
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| HIS FIRST BICYCLE | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 147 | |||
| A police information film made in Salford - on being bought a new bicycle, a schoolboy learns to ride it safely by keeping it in good order and following the Highway Code. Sequences follow, some humorous, showing him riding the bicycle, obeying some road signs and ignoring others, riding dangerously, and having a minor accident. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| HOLIDAYS AT HOME | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 218 | |||
| Film of Rochdale, showing a series of organised events attended and addressed by the Mayor (and party). The events comprise an official opening and speeches at Falinge Park; bowling; a boating pool; a cricket match; a horse parade; a field cooking display; a talent-spotting contest; a firefighting display; a puppet show; children's sports; and a dog show. | |||
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| 22nd COUNTY OF LANCASTER (ROCHDALE) Btn. HOME GUARD CELEBRATED ITS THIRD ANNIVERSARY | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 429 | |||
| Various views of Rochdale Home Guard parading in the town. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROTACHUTE | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 593 | |||
| Shows aerial shots of the testing of the rotachute - prototype of the helicopter - around RAF Ringway and RAF Snaith. Also shots of its take-off and landing. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
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| EIGHTH ARMY WOUNDED HOME | |||
| Date: *1942 Film Number: 614 | |||
| Eighth Army veterans convalescing at a military hospital in Lancashire. Includes interior and exterior shots - wounded soldiers relaxing with nurses (many are named), and a glimpse of an M.O. at work. | |||
| 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. | |||
| A MISCELLANEOUS FILM SHOW | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 874 | |||
| Bolton's stay at home holiday - scenes in Moss Bank Park; a ceremony performed by the Mayor, Councillor A Booth; a bouquet is presented to the Lady Mayoress; the Mayor with a bucket in the sand pit; children on a roundabout and swings, and having donkey rides; a large crowd of people queue for food tickets; ornamental gardens; girls' egg and spoon race; Punch and Judy show; parade of the men and women of the National Fire Service - fire engines; hoses are laid out on the grass; shot of Alderman G Sykes, Chairman of the Parks Committee; show jumping and games on horseback; family groups - a man bottle feeds a baby; a dog show; fancy dress parade and army band. | |||
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| SCHOOL LIFE IN WARTIME | |||
| Date: 1942 Film Number: 911 | |||
| This amateur film was made over a period of several months by the talented Headmaster of Elworth School in South Cheshire, to illustrate school life during the Second World War. It shows the children donning gas masks and improving their skill in reaching the air-raid shelters in record time and disciplined order; knitting blanket squares; "digging for victory" in the school garden; practising first-aid; collecting waste paper and books; "saving for victory" by counting their National Saving Stamps. | |||
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| 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. | |||
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