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| PRESTON & DISTRICT "SALUTE THE SOLDIER" WEEK, MAY 13TH-20TH 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 1199 | |||
| Events from Preston and District's "Salute the Soldier Week," 13-20 May 1944 to raise funds for the war effort. Events shown include military processions, an exhibition relating to the North Lancashire Regiment, a charity cricket match between Fulwood and Broughton Cricket Club and an Army XI and a bowls match. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 149 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 5678 | |||
| A group of servicemen from Manchester, Salford, Todmorden and Warrington are filmed together in a jungle clearing in Burma. Each man takes a turn to step forward to the camera to send a personal message home to his loved ones before they all sign off with a short group rendition of “We’ll Meet Again”. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 178 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 5680 | |||
| Servicemen (and one woman) from the Royal Navy send personal messages to their loved ones back in Manchester, Salford, Bolton, Mossley and Wilmslow from a coastal location in Colombo, Ceylon. The film ends with the ‘boys and girls of the Royal Navy’ walking quietly away, smiling at the camera, with the sea in the background. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 212 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 5684 | |||
| Men from the Army and RAF serving in Burma send personal messages back to their loved ones in Manchester and the North West. The messages are delivered straight to camera from a variety of locations: a riverbank, a jungle clearing, by a roadside, in a camp. The last group of men stand in front of a truck to deliver their messages before jumping into the back of it, cheering and waving, as the vehicle moves off. | |||
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| WINSFORD WATER 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 9120 | |||
| 'All aboard with skipper P. Millard!' Sailing scenes on the Flashes on the river Weaver near Winsford. Boats sail along, stopping so that people can socialise on the river bank. Views of the Flashes, seen from Winsford. Picnic tea on the riverbank, everyone waves to the camera and then heads back home. | |||
| EASTER 1944 - CROSBY | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 8350 | |||
| A group of family spend time in the garden of a house in Crosby. They sit in the garden reading the paper, play tennis and do some gardening. A young man in a sailors uniform can be seen, different members of the family try on his sailors hat. | |||
| TOTTENHAM COMES TO WALTON OLD HALL | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 8383 | |||
| Children evacuees from Tottenham can be seen arriving at the gates of Walton Hall. They are greeted by Lady Daresbury and the head warden, Mr. T. Plumpton outside the house. Lady Daresbury had invited the children there for a fete and tea. The children enjoy some fizzy drinks and food before donkey rides. Some of the younger children take part in a race. The children gather on the lawn for a Punch and Judy show. Afterwards, the children take part in a variety of races such as three-legged, skipping, egg and spoon and sack races. The children and adults are seen seated at tables in the garden for refreshments. | |||
| [DUKE OF WELLINGTON REGIMENT STAND DOWN PARADE] | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 9780 | |||
| The regiment marches along a country road before assembling on a field in front of a crowd of spectators. An inspection of the troops takes place, before the regiment marches away. | |||
| MALPAS 1944 | |||
| Date: 1944 Film Number: 7772 | |||
| Two Malpas weddings and two new teachers at the local school showing clips of the children playing in the yard and a children's opera which involves dancing. Musical band marching in the streets followed by a parade. Selected scenes of horse racing and jumping with a visit from the Mayor and Mayoress of Stretford. | |||
| [SAVINGS WEEK AND OTHER WARTIME SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5416 | |||
| Posters for a local war savings campaign, followed by a parade and the arrival of 300 evacuees at Wilmslow station in July 1944. Savings week helpers board a train for the Buckingham Palace Garden Party and the Junior Service Corps and Church Lads Brigade compete at a sports day. A torchlit event takes place to change the savings target in October 1945 outside the Rex cinema and teenagers march during a recruitment week for Junior Services. The Air Training Corps, Girls Training Corps and RAF Cadets perform drills and the boy scouts and cubs are seen doing gymnastics. The film ends with cadets being presented with a ceremonial mace in 1945. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| [LEISURE SCENES IN WARTIME] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5417 | |||
| Two men are seen looking at war savings campaign posters and smoking, and people leave a meeting room. There are posters for a Canada v USA baseball match and for the 1943 ceremony to mark Wilmslow's adoption of HMS Winchelsea, followed by scenes from the baseball match at Pownall College, Wilmslow during Merchant Navy Week. People skating on a frozen lake, baby Brenda sitting outside and a parade featuring the Air Training Corps. There is an outdoor gathering for Allies Day with an appearance from Commander Warwick Bracegirdle. The film ends with a football match, after which St Bartholomew's Prize Band play. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
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| [QUEEN ELIZABETH IN PRESTON] | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 6207 | |||
| Queen Elizabeth is seen during a Royal visit to Preston in April 1945 - arriving, being presented to the Mayor and talking with wounded soldiers. June Miller and her sister are seen out and about in the Lake District - walking through woods and standing outside their school, St Anne's in Windermere. | |||
| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 59 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5674 | |||
| Servicemen from Warrington send personal messages back home to their loved ones from a film studio in Bombay set out as a mess room. Opens with soldiers playing darts as piano music plays in the background. After the messages have been delivered, it's over to 'Harry' who plays an upbeat 'We'll Meet Again' on the piano as the men gather round before joining in to sing and waving goodbye. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 82 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5675 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Salford, Oldham and Edenfield send personal messages back home to their loved ones from a film studio in Bombay set out as a canteen. Piano music plays in the background. After the messages have been delivered, they all gather round the mess room piano to hear ‘Harry’ thump out some tunes. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 85 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5676 | |||
| In the ‘mess room’, which is actually a film set in Bombay, men serving in the Far East take turns to approach the camera and send personal messages back to their loved ones in and around Manchester. The film concludes with the men doing their best to sing ‘She’s a Lassie from Lancashire’ with ‘no Gracie Fields’ to help them out. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 99 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5677 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester send personal messages back home to their loved ones from a film studio in Bombay decked out as a canteen. Big Band music plays in the background. After the messages have been delivered, the camera pans around the men seated in the mess room as they wave and cheer and say goodbye. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 166 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5679 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Salford and beyond send personal messages back home to their loved ones by speaking directly to camera on location in India. In the opening sequence a truck, with ‘Hello Manchester’ chalked on the side, pulls up and the first group of servicemen leap out of the back. The film closes with the men coming together under a tree to sing ‘She’s a Lassie from Lancashire’. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 191 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5681 | |||
| Soldiers serving in the Far East send messages back to their loved ones in Manchester and the surrounding area. The film opens in a small clearing where contributors take turns to speak to the camera before introducing the next caller. Further messages are delivered in front of various buildings (the soldiers’ lodgings?) using different set piece techniques. The film ends with the whole group walking quickly towards and past the camera, waving and saying cheerio. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 203 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5682 | |||
| Servicemen from Manchester, Salford and beyond send personal messages to their loved ones from Burma. Messages are delivered from a variety of locations: the banks of the Irrawaddy River, in front of temples, next to two bullocks and a cart, around a fire making tea, at a roadside and amongst cleared land. The last three soldiers wave to the camera as they walk away and a voiceover says “Cheerio to our boys in Burma!”. | |||
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| CALLING BLIGHTY NO. 210 | |||
| Date: c1945 Film Number: 5683 | |||
| Men from the RAF and Royal Navy serving in Burma send messages home to their loved ones in and around the Manchester area. The film opens in a camp outside a war-damaged ‘Talbot House’ in which airmen take turns to deliver their messages straight to camera. Further callers appear in an overgrown ‘monastery garden’, in front of a bridge, and on a beach. The last three men walk away from the camera towards the sea and wave as a voiceover says ‘cheerio... to your boys in Burma’. | |||
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