Record 3066 – 3085 of 10836
| [RETIREMENT AT ABEL STREET SCHOOL] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5227 | |||
| Mr Moffit, the headteacher, delivers a retirement speech in an adapted school classroom at Abel Street School in Burnley. The audience are seated around covered tables. People are then shown helping themselves to a buffet at the front of the room. 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 | |||
| [ABEL STREET SCHOOL PRESENTATIONS AND SPEECHES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5233 | |||
| Speeches and presentations at Abel Street School in Burnley, possibly to mark the retirement of the headteacher, Mr Moffit. Speeches are delivered in the school hall and boys present gifts and flowers to the guests of honour as pupils applaud. A roll of honour board is unveiled by one of the schoolchildren. The film ends with shots in a classroom where a smaller presentation is made in front of an invited audience, and a buffet is seen in the background. 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 | |||
| DOLLY'S DAY OUT | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 5899 | |||
| Short film showing the adventures of two young girls and their doll on a day in the park. Their pram rolls down the hill, their ball falls into the pond and has to be retrieved, and there is a mishap with a ball of wool. The girls are also seen feeding the ducks, enjoying an ice-cream, and strolling in the park. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [JAS BAXENDALE'S WEDDING] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6225 | |||
| Wedding guests are seen outside the church and the bride arrives with her father. Scenes with the couple and guests outside again following the service. | |||
| [VISITING OLD CHURCHES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6235 | |||
| Wallace and Harvey Miller are seen outside a church with a friend and the vicar. They visit various other churches and villages before Diane 'Dimmy' Miller is seen as a toddler playing in the garden. | |||
| [ON HOLIDAY NEAR ABERGAVENY] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6238 | |||
| The Miller girls are seen riding horses on a farm and having a picnic with their parents. View of the countryside and of a ruined abbey (probably Tintern) conclude. | |||
| [RIDING A HORSE] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6239 | |||
| June Graham and three other men are seen taking turns to ride a horse round a field, probably near Ruabon in North Wales. | |||
| [AT PORT MERRION] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6241 | |||
| Views of a waterfall and around the Italian style village of Port Merrion in North Wales. Brief views of Diane Miller skipping in the garden at home conclude. | |||
| [WHIT WALK AT ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6245 | |||
| Scenes from a whit walk in Ashton-on-Ribble near Preston are followed by a girl playing on a swing in a garden and general views of the North Wales countryside near Ruabon. | |||
| [JUNE MILLER ON A HORSE] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6250 | |||
| Scenes with June Miller riding a horse in a field are followed by a baby boy in a playpen in a garden and June with a calf on a farm. There are also views of the gardens at St Anne's School, Windermere. | |||
| [UP IN THE LAKES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6252 | |||
| June Miller and friend are seen playing on a swing and with her mother in the garden. Views of a large hotel in the Lake District are followed by Brigadier Harvey Miller in uniform standing next to a Rolls Royce and walking with a man along the Lancashire coast. | |||
| [VARIOUS SCOUT CAMP SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6454 | |||
| Scouts are shown getting into a lorry, followed by views of their camp being set up and a trip to a waterfall with scouts climbing on rocks by the falls. A glimpse of people emerging from the White Scar Caves follows and of scouts crossing a stream on stepping stones. A comic interlude at camp, where scouts pull the shorts off one of their friends in a melee, followed by the fuming victim sewing them up. Scouts eating at tables, diving and swimming in an outdoor pool, being inspected at drill and hiking through bracken on a hillside. Scenes from a role-playing game, featuring opposing sides dressed as native American Indians, followed by scouts erecting a pulley block over a lake inlet and hauling each other across in turn. Brief views of a paper chase and scouts washing in a stream. | |||
| [TRAIN & GARDEN] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6458 | |||
| Views of Penally railway station and from a moving train showing an industrial landscape, the countryside and railway yards. Scenes in a garden with a dog chewing a bone and a man picking gladioli. | |||
| [SPORTS DAY & OTHER SCHOOL SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 6459 | |||
| Scenes from a school sports day, followed by two football teams running onto a pitch and the victors holding a trophy afterwards. There follows a sequence where school children watch from a distance as a building is demolished by a wrecking-ball. | |||
| [FAMILY PARTIES AND BISPHAM CARNIVAL] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 7279 | |||
| Celebrations in the Gribbons household and a procession and carnival queen crowning in Bispham. Scenes around the table at the 3rd birthday party of one of the Gribbon girls. A parade moves down Red Bank Road in Bispham and, after speeches from the mayor, the carnival queen is crowned. The girls are shown enjoying rides at a travelling funfair, before further party scenes back at the house, including family members posing for the camera. The Gribbons peruse a brochure about Australia and drink a toast before the film concludes with further family footage, some taken on Blackpool beach. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [BARLOW FAMILY HOLIDAYS AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 8002 | |||
| Compilation reel of family holiday and leisure material, with scenes in Southport, including the Lakeside miniature railway, and Blackpool, of the illuminated seafront and trams. The family are also seen at a caravan site; there are zoo scenes, children playing outdoors, and shots of a Whit Walk passing through the streets | |||
| [PADIHAM WALKING DAY c1950] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9517 | |||
| On a rainy day a brass band leads the Padiham walking day followed by church banners, clergymen, children carrying baskets of flowers, cub scouts drumming and rose queens. | |||
| [LEGO AND AUTUMN SCENES] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9541 | |||
| Young Deirdre sits at the table playing with her Lego, and is seen out in Roundhay Park in autumn with her mother. | |||
| HOLIDAY MEMORIES | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9589 | |||
| An assortment of holiday scenes. We see a group of people in a variety of situations. On the beach, in ornamental gardens, visiting tourist sights, on boat trips and having picnics. We see a show watched by a lot of spectators where men do comical dives into a pool, and then splash each other from rowing boats. We see a group of people cycling down the road on fun cycles that seat a few people hired from Butlins, they pass the Filey Butlins Holiday Camp. There are scenes from a farmhouse where some women feed hens, and countryside scenes of a Pickfords lorry with a very heavy load driving along the country roads. | |||
| [MRS WILSON GARDENING] | |||
| Date: c1950 Film Number: 9592 | |||
| Mrs Wilson works in the garden while a little girl watches, we then see Mr Wilson brushing the garden path. | |||
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