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| PRESTON'S GREAT WELCOME | |||
| Date: 1938 Film Number: 2687 | |||
| Film of Preston North End FC following their FA Cup Final victory over Huddersfield Town in 1938. The outside of Wembley Stadium is featured and the team is seen with the FA Cup in London. After their return to a packed Preston Station the team travel through the crowd -flanked streets. Speeches are made from the Town Hall steps. The cup is seen being paraded before the crowd at Deepdale. | |||
| THE CUP FINAL, WEMBLEY 1938. PRESTON NORTH END V HUDDERSFIELD TOWN | |||
| Date: 1938 Film Number: 6435 | |||
| Scenes from the 1938 Cup Final between Preston North End and Huddersfield Town. Shots of the Preston entourage boarding a train in Preston (including Thomas Blackburn, a club director) and walking to Wembley Stadium from the bus. Shots of the crowd and police outside the stadium. Movietone news highlights of the match, which Preston won 1-0. Shots of animals at Whipsnade Zoo. Triumphant Preston North End team returning home and being met by press, photographers and a huge crowd of supporters. The team are driven through the thronging streets sat on the roof of a bus, players address the crowds from the Town Hall steps and also visit a children's ward with the cup. | |||
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| [BURY AMATEURS VS BURY F.C. PROMOTION TEAM (1924), 4 MAY 1938] | |||
| Date: 1938 Film Number: 6038 | |||
| Film of the football match at Gigg Lane between Bury Amateurs and the Bury F.C. promotion team of 1924. The two teams run onto the pitch, the captains shake hands and there are views of the game and of supporters in the stands. | |||
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| ROUTE MARCH JULY 30TH 1938; MINDEN DAY AUGUST 1ST 1938 | |||
| Date: 1938 Film Number: 10644 | |||
| On July 30th 1938, crowds gather to watch a parade of troops marching through Bury. On the 1st of August 1938, people gathered at Gigg Lane to watch a military parade to commemorate Minden Day. The film ends with a shot of the Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial in Bury. | |||
| THE LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS 250TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS | |||
| Date: 1938 Film Number: 10657 | |||
| On the 31st of July 1938, crowds gather in Bury town centre to watch the Church Parade march through the town. On the 1st of August 1938, people gathered at Gigg Lane to watch a military parade to commemorate Minden Day. The film ends with a shot of the Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial in Bury. | |||
| [TROOP DISPLAY AND OTHER SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1938 Film Number: 8471 | |||
| Lancashire Fusiliers 6th Battalion troop activities, including a display at Rochdale Hornets rugby football ground, dinner dance for all ranks on 23rd July 1938, and a guard mounting competition in Middleton. | |||
| [CHILDREN'S EVENT AND ARMY MARCH-PASTS] | |||
| Date: 1938 Film Number: 8472 | |||
| Scenes from children's event at football ground, featuring a variety of races and the presentation of prizes. The reel concludes with scenes from two Lancashire Fusiliers march pasts, in Middleton and Rochdale. | |||
| [PILKINGTON'S COLLIERY BOYS GO ON HOLIDAY] | |||
| Date: c1939 Film Number: 161 | |||
| The boys at Pilkington's Colliery in St. Helens are shown at work while the directors agree to give them a weeks camping holiday. They gather at the railway station and go off to camp where they are shown participating in various domestic campsite activities - cooking, eating, washing etc. - as well as sporting activities - races, swimming, football etc. - hiking and generally relaxing. The staff supervising the camp are introduced individually. | |||
| CUTHBERT'S FIRST TERM | |||
| Date: c1939 Film Number: 5031 | |||
| Short comedy featuring the staff and pupils of Liverpool Farm Approved School. 'Cuthbert' leaves home in a taxi and arrives at the school where he is show to his dormitory. He has a run-in with the school bully and there are scenes in the dormitory - getting ready for bed, larking around and having a pillow fight. A dream sequence with the school on fire and the rescue of a boy from an upstairs window is followed by a P.E. lesson, scenes from school camp, a boxing match and a football match, where Cuthbert gets injured and is taken away by horse-drawn ambulance. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [FYLDE COAST OUTING] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 872 | |||
| Fylde Coast outing - visit to Blackpool; a coach trip. Demolition of a factory chimney. A game of golf at Dunscar Golf Club. Holcombe Hunt Races - tic tac men; horses and jockeys. Burnden Park - football training; preparing the pitch; shots of the game; members of the team and officials. | |||
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| SOUTH-EAST LANCASHIRE COUNTY SCOUT COUNCIL, COUNTY RALLY, DUNHAM PARK, JUNE 1939 | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4782 | |||
| Preparations for the camp at Dunham Park are followed by footage of scouts boarding buses and arriving at the site. Views of various camp activities including the camp fire, milk delivery, refuse disposal and scout and guide shop are seen, and on Sunday a group of VIPs - including the exiled Crown Prince of Ethiopia, Asfa Wossen - arrive for a church service. Different scout troops participate in a stage show - a cowboy band, morris dancing, gymnastic display and fencing demonstration are seen. The film ends with views of the camp being cleared up and the empty site after the scouts have left. | |||
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| A CHANGE OF AIR - SALFORD LADS' CLUB CAMP ABERYSTWYTH 1939 | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 4949 | |||
| Salford Lads' Club boys are seen arriving at London Road Station in Manchester to go to camp in Aberystwyth. On arrival, the lads go swimming in the river and are seen preparing and eating sausages and mash. Some are seen washing up afterwards. There is a day trip to Aberdovey, where they all go on a steam boat trip, and on return to camp there is a football match. The boys are seen tidying up and getting washed, and some are seen with lambs on a farm. There is footage of boxing matches and various races during the sports day, with casualties receiving first aid afterwards. They visit the beach and are seen packing up and receiving prizes on the last day. | |||
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| [IN & AROUND MALPAS 1939] | |||
| Date: 1939 Film Number: 7767 | |||
| Life in and around Malpas in Cheshire - the local hunt assembles in the village various sport scenes, children working in the gardens, and a prize-giving and physical training at the local school. Shots of motorcycle trials at Higher Barnes, scenes by the river and a games of football. A music festival with improvised musical instruments is seen in Chester in 1939, a trip to Chester Zoo and the circus comes to Malpas. St Oswalds' walking day is followed by holiday scenes and footage from the Shrewsbury Show. The makeshift band travel to London to perform on Children's Hour on the BBC, and evacuee children arrive in Malpas at the start of WWII. Film ends with scenes from the school fishing competition. | |||
| [HART FAMILY AT FLEETWOOD] | |||
| Date: 1939-43 Film Number: 7298 | |||
| Assortment of pool and seaside scenes begins with a boy and his father at an open air swimming pool. There are shots of the sea front and pier at Fleetwood. Adults and children have fun and play football on the sand and there is a brief shot of a toddler walking towards some sandcastles. Ends with shots of young Bill Hart in a garden near the sea. [Catalogued as part of 'Revitalising the Regions' - a Screen Heritage UK project, 2011] | |||
| [HOME GUARD PLUS MISCELLANEOUS] | |||
| Date: c1939-45 Film Number: 1433 | |||
| Scenes from a garden featuring a woman with dogs, followed by a variety of scenes including a football match, snow scenes, streetscenes, men walking with a small girl, men bowling; sat outside Harbour Restaurant, a cricket match and further bowling scenes. Also footage of a camp, men playing golf and a man on a bench with four women and dogs. The film also features a variety of military scenarios, the Home Guard in procession in Middleton(?) and scenes from a camp. | |||
| [MOSS BANK PARK AND AVIARY/WITH THE GRENADIERS] | |||
| Date: c1940s Film Number: 870 | |||
| A family group in Moss Bank Park, some with tennis racquets; the aviary. With the Grenadiers - line of soldiers, some with rifles, on the parade ground. Various shots - children playing; donkey rides; Bob Foster, the Burnley goalkeeper, practising; a band playing in the park. | |||
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| ALL PALS TOGETHER | |||
| Date: c1940s Film Number: 875 | |||
| Shots of various individuals in uniform; an outdoor swimming pool; show jumping; table tennis outside Smithills Hall; a gymnastic display and football match; mum and dad greet their son on leave from the Navy - he is later seen saying goodbye; a boys camp. | |||
| [CHRISTENINGS, XMAS & MISC.SCENES] | |||
| Date: 1940 Film Number: 7893 | |||
| Hazel's christening on September 29th 1940 with family in the garden and baby Hazel in her christening gown. Brief scenes from a Whit walk with a marching band and children with their mothers. Hazel in her pram with Mareen blowing bubbles Scenes from another christening with cake and family in the garden. Christmas scenes with a boy sat under the tree playing with a ribbon then in the garden cutting the grass with a push mower. A group of children enjoying a picnic in the garden then a boy plays with a football on the street with other children before playing on a beach with a ball in the sea. | |||
| [MISCELLANY AND SPORTS] | |||
| Date: c1940s Film Number: 2076 | |||
| The film opens with footage of the wedding party and guests outside a wedding. It continues with footage of an agricultural show, featuring livestock and show jumping. There is also holiday footage from the Isle of Man and the Lake District, including shots of countryside, coastal areas and a steam railway. The film includes footage of a military parade and brief shots of soldiers training as well as footage of children dancing in a park. The film closes with a section entitled 'sports' featuring brief footage of Preston North End Football Club's matches against Derby County, Newcastle United, Arsenal, Blackburn (?) Rovers and unspecified opponents as well as diving at the South Shore Baths in Blackpool. | |||
| [MISCELLANEOUS: COUNTRYSIDE AND FOOTBALL] | |||
| Date: c1940s Film Number: 2077 | |||
| Miscellaneous footage from various locations. Includes shots of a rural area from a moving car, brief footage of a football match in a large stadium and a group of people riding horses and walking through fields. | |||
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