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| [MAYORAL SUNDAY, BLACKBURN 8TH JUNE 1969 | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 1541 | |||
| Film of a procession led by mayor Haworth (?) from Blackburn cathedral to the Town Hall on June 8th 1969. The procession includes contingents from the towns schools and a pipe band. This is followed by a march past by various bodies including the police and fire service, music is provided by the Salvation Army Band. | |||
| ETHIOPIA NOVEMBER 1969 [PART 1] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 1556 | |||
| Footage from a trip to Ethiopia, includes shots from Addis Ababa, Awash, Mulu and Aselle as well as rural scenes including harvesting on farms and wildlife . Also includes views of landscapes, rivers, mountains and waterfalls. | |||
| ETHIOPIA NOVEMBER 1969 [PART 2] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 1557 | |||
| Further footage from a trip to Ethiopia. Includes material shot in Zuquala and Harar and shots of the Blue Nile. Features a variety of urban and rural scenes including women at a market. | |||
| [HIGHER MILL, HELMSHORE 1969] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 1991 | |||
| Footage shot in November 1969 as part of the BBC Chronicle series. Features restoration work taking place at Higher Mill in Helmshore. A group of volunteers led by Derek Pilkington are seen converting the mill into a textile museum. Includes scenes of school children being shown around the site and close up shots of the restored water wheel. (The film was broadcast in March 1970 as an entry for Chronicle's Industrial Archaeological prize) | |||
| [HIGHER MILL, HELMSHORE 1969 - TRIMS] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 1992 | |||
| Footage relating to Higher Mill at Helmshore shot in 1969 for use in the BBC series Chronicle. Includes shots of the Mill Engine Society at work dismantling a mill engine and various interior and exterior shots of Higher Mill. (For final edited version see accession number 1991) | |||
| EDUCATIONAL GYMNASTICS FOR LOWER JUNIORS | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2026 | |||
| Training film for teachers. Shows a class of first year junior school children from Scotforth C of E Primary School Lancaster during a P.E. lesson. Using floor mats, small and large apparatus the children develop skills in co-ordination, movement and imagination. | |||
| ROYAL START AT HAYDOCK | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2277 | |||
| Film of the royal opening of the Shell Mex and BP terminal at Haydock on 12th June 1969 by Princess Alexandra. A crowd of children are seen outside the site awaiting her arrival. The Princess and Mr Greave, the site director, are seen giving speeches in front of a crowd in a temporary grandstand before the Princess opens the terminal by switching on the traffic lights allowing the oil tankers to leave. The Princess tours the site, on foot and in a car, and the various processes involved in oil storage and delivery are seen. The Princess visits the canteen before leaving in the Royal Car. | |||
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| [HEREFORD 1970; SEVERN BRIDGE; STELLA'S HOUSE] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 2328 | |||
| Mr and Mrs Brookes, from Ordsall in Salford, are seen visiting friends in Hereford, in 1970. They are seen visiting various tourist attractions in the surrounding areas of Cheltenham, Gloucester and the Cotswolds. The film also features travelling shots of their coach journey - including scenes along the Severn Bridge. Includes brief shots of people queuing for a Mr Whippy ice cream and cows unloaded from the back of a lorry, to be sold at a cattle auction. | |||
| [CHILDREN LEAVING SCHOOL; HEATON PARK CONCERT] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 2330 | |||
| Mrs Brookes, from Ordsall in Salford, is seen collecting her two eldest grandsons from school. Includes shots of other parents waiting at the school gates for their children. Also features scenes of some children playing on their bicycles in the middle of a suburban street. One of the boys is seen wearing a boy scout uniform. Concludes with scenes of the Brookes family sitting on the grass, in Heaton Park, listening to an open-air choral recital. | |||
| [HEATON PARK FUNFAIR] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2331 | |||
| Mrs Brookes, from Ordsall in Salford, is seen with her daughter and three grandsons at a funfair in Heaton Park. The boys are seen enjoying a ride on the Merry-go-round - some of the shots are in slow motion. They are also seen playing on the swings and joy wheel in the playground. Further footage includes other children and families paddling and relaxing around the shallow lido pool. | |||
| [A DRIVE THROUGH THE LAKE DISTRICT] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 2356 | |||
| Footage of a drive through the Lake District. Includes speeded up shots of the surrounding countryside, streets and towns that the car travels through, during its journey to the Lake District. Further scenes include a couple of children delivering the St Mark's (Cheetham Hill) Parish Magazine to local houses and flats. Also features shots of the Croal Estate during the winter and summer months - includes scenes of the children having a snow ball fight. | |||
| [INTERIOR OF NO. 3 CROAL HOUSE] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 2365 | |||
| The film begins with brief shots of the Church Inn (location unknown). Continues with interior shots of Mr and Mrs Ralph Brookes' flat at No 3 Croal House in Salford. Includes views of the hall way, kitchen and living room. Also features shots of Mrs Brookes standing outside the flat and walking along the pathway between the neighbouring buildings on the housing development. | |||
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| [SWIMMING BATHS] | |||
| Date: *1969 Film Number: 2366 | |||
| Scenes of children competing in various swimming races. Competitors are seen taking their marks and diving into the water at the start of the race. Spectators watch the event from a first floor balcony. Probably shot at Seedley baths in Salford. | |||
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| [SCENES OF CORNWALL AND TRENTHAM GARDENS] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2383 | |||
| Members of the Brookes family are seen on holiday in Cornwall; August 1969. They visit a miniature railway; Trentham Gardens; St Ives and Mousehole. Mr Brookes' three grandsons are seen playing with their parents in the sea and making sandcastles on the beach with their grandmother. The film also features footage of the family having a ride in a cable car. | |||
| [CHILDREN IN NURSERY GARDEN 4] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2558 | |||
| Scenes of the children from Bradley Nursery School, in Nelson, playing on the climbing apparatus in the school playground. Includes footage of the boys and girls blowing bubbles through plastic pipes; playing with containers in a water-filled tub; swinging on a rope and making sand castles in the school's sand pit. | |||
| [BRADLEY NURSERY SCHOOL 1969] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2562 | |||
| Scenes of staff and children attending Bradley Nursery School in Nelson; 1969. Features footage of the children arriving at school; taking their coats off in the classroom; preparing themselves for lunch - washing their hands, brushing their hair, laying the table and eating their meal. Continues with scenes of the children participating in various activities such as painting, music, printing and modelling in clay. Also features footage of the children playing outdoors in the playground - on swings, seesaws, slides, swing-ropes and climbing frame. Includes shots of a nurse cleaning children's faces, and staff handing out milk bottles and cartons to the children at break time. | |||
| THE FIRST ACROSS. ALCOCK AND BROWN | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2647 | |||
| Film about aviation pioneers Alcock and Brown, who were the first men to fly uninterrupted across the Atlantic. Traces their early careers and interest in aviation. Both lived in Manchester whilst young. Their homes in Old Trafford, Chorlton and Fallowfield are featured, as is Manchester Central High School and Manchester Technical Institute. St Annes, where Alcock went to school is also featured. The film features Archive footage of early aviation, World War 1 and Alcock and Brown in a variety of locations. There is a reconstruction of the first uninterrupted Atlantic crossing from Newfoundland to Clifden in Ireland which took place between 14 -17 June 1919. One of the men who first reached the 'plane on landing is interviewed as is Alcock's brother Eddie. The Science Museum in London - which houses the plane - is seen as is the Savoy Hotel in London, where a celebration lunch was held. The film also deals with Alcock and Browns lives following their Atlantic crossing. Commentary is provided by newscaster Richard Baker. | |||
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| [COUNTRYSIDE AND GARDEN] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2680 | |||
| Scenes of the Hayden family (Mr + Mrs Hayden, daughter and possibly Mr Hayden's parents walking in the grounds and gardens of a stately home (?), and the various people in the garden at home. | |||
| [OLDHAM POLICE ON THE MOVE] | |||
| Date: 1969 Film Number: 2797 | |||
| After a close-up of a police circular, the film depicts some of the preparations made by officers to police a Rugby Union game between the touring springboks and the Northern Counties team at White City Stadium in winter 1969. They line up and get onto buses. | |||
| FOCUS ON MANCHESTER | |||
| Date: 1969 / 1981 Film Number: 2929 | |||
| Scene from across Manchester City Centre: the Cathedral, Chetham School of Music, a wedding, the Town Hall, the Central Library seen from St. Peter's Square, Piccadilly Gardens in full bloom, Piccadilly Station Approach, the Old Shambles and Old Wellington Inn, and John Rylands Library. There are then scenes of Chester Morris Men dancing in Spinningfields, the Christmas lights on Deansgate, and shots of shop windows and interior displays in a department store (possibly Kendals). There is footage of a steam rally, a boating lake with ducks and geese, majorettes, the Poynton Jemmers (morris dancers) performing in King Street, and displays from mounted police, police dogs and pipe bands. | |||
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