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| LOCAL EVENTS OF 1914 | |||
| Date: 1914 Film Number: 1208 | |||
| Events taking place around Lancashire in 1914. Includes a police sports day; boundary riding; Caton gala; Bowness-on-Windermere sports day and a few brief shots of Morecambe Bay. | |||
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| LANCASTER ASSIZES | |||
| Date: c1914 Film Number: 1209 | |||
| A ceremonial procession through the streets of Lancaster. The judge and other civic dignitaries arrive at a church in a horse-drawn carriage wearing full regalia. The procession moves to the Shire Hall where a crowd of spectators stand watching from the first floor balcony of the hall. | |||
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| MORECAMBE VOLUNTEERS IN TRAINING | |||
| Date: 1914 Film Number: 1210 | |||
| The film begins with shots of Morecambe Volunteers preparing to go to war. A group of women are seen unloading blankets at a collection point outside the Art School and the 5th Kings Own Lancaster Territorial Army mobilise at Bowerham Barracks before leaving for Castle Station. Concludes with footage of the Mayor and Mayoress standing on the platform bidding farewell to soldiers who are seen leaning out of their railway carriages, waving handkerchiefs at their family and friends. | |||
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| MAYOR'S SUNDAY [MORECAMBE] | |||
| Date: c1914 Film Number: 1669 | |||
| Crowds of spectators line the streets of Morecambe, holding umbrellas and flags, as a procession of boy scouts, policemen, soldiers, firemen, civic dignitaries and a brass band walk past. Further celebrations of the Mayor's Sunday continue with shots of the war memorial in the town square and the Mayor and his party entering a civic building. | |||
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| AVIATION MEETING M SALMET | |||
| Date: c1914 Film Number: 1670 | |||
| Film footage of Henri Salmet flying a monoplane across the skies of Lancashire. Large crowds of spectators warmly greet the french pilot as he lands the aeroplane in various open spaces around the county. | |||
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| SOUTHPORT COLLEGE SPORTS [1915] | |||
| Date: 1915 Film Number: 65 | |||
| Boys take part in various sports, viewed by spectators. Sports shown are the egg and spoon race and the sack race. Boys are also seen eating something, possibly bread. [The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.] | |||
| THE 4/5TH BATTALIONS LANCS FUSILIERS ON THE MARCH | |||
| Date: 1915 Film Number: 74 | |||
| Soldiers are seen being drilled with rifles and training in mock trenches. | |||
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| MILITARY FUNERAL AT BURY | |||
| Date: 1915 Film Number: 75 | |||
| Scenes from the funeral of Sergeant-Major George Ash on 11 March 1915. A procession of soldiers moves down a cobbled street lined with spectators. Soldiers form a guard of honour for the coffin which is carried from the horse-drawn hearse into the church. Civilians and soldiers follow the coffin inside. | |||
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| PATHE'S ANIMATED GAZETTE (NO. 323B) | |||
| Date: 1915 Film Number: 88 | |||
| New French Super Dreadnought. More Canadians coming! Ramsgate zeppelin raid. The Dardanelles. Cotton fire in Merseyside warehouse. Hospital transport service. A pony collecting funds. War fever in Italy. Lancashire recruits in training. King reviews troops at Newcastle. Troop train disaster. Our new ally. Church schools parade. | |||
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| PATHE'S ANIMATED GAZETTE NO. 308B | |||
| Date: 1915 Film Number: 109 | |||
| Volunteers inspected at Leytonstone. President Poincare visits an art gallery. Soldiers in a cross-country race at Aldershot. British East African troops. Birmingham soldiers marching to the station. Army officers on a fox hunt. A Dreadnought at sea. Inspection of ambulances at Buckingham Palace. The crew of the trawler Providence. Winter sports in Switzerland. German prisoners led down a street in Lancashire. | |||
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| ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS IN LIVERPOOL | |||
| Date: 1915 Film Number: 183 | |||
| Views of the wreckage after the riots - wrecked shops, a car and a warehouse, with people crowding round and a policeman on guard. | |||
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| [ROSE QUEEN CORONATION, MILNROW] | |||
| Date: c1915 Film Number: 303 | |||
| Coronation and maypole dancing sequence from 301 - better picture quality. | |||
| THE ACCRINGTON PALS BATTALION | |||
| Date: 1915 Film Number: 563 | |||
| The Accrington Pals Battalion are seen leaving Salisbury Plain for active service - where a great number were killed. We then see the 'Pals' marching at Accrington on August 1st 1915. | |||
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| [ABRAHAM BROTHERS - PATHE REVIEW] | |||
| Date: 1913-15 Film Number: 6960 | |||
| Extract from a Pathe Review showing a team of men, including the Abraham Brothers, George and Ashley, climbing lower slopes before ascending Napes Needle, Great Gable. Climbers pose with their boots for the camera then tackle the rock face, including a view of the Wasdale valley below. The mountaineers are seen reaching the tip of the Needle. | |||
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| A VISIT TO A CABLE FACTORY | |||
| Date: c1915 Film Number: 5981 | |||
| The film takes a look around the Glover's Cable factory in Trafford Park. Raw materials are delivered by rail, and the various stages in the manufacture of electrical cables for Glasgow Corporation and for the mining industry are seen - from the drawing out of the wire, to coating the cables and testing them. The finished goods are shown leaving the works by rail, horse and cart and canal. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| [LIVERPOOL NEWSREEL COMPILATION] | |||
| Date: 1915/22/7 Film Number: 6820 | |||
| Compilation of newsreel items from the Liverpool area. Lord Derby's recruiting band (band of the King's Liverpool regiment?) are seen on Lower Breck Road, Anfield, 1915, followed by F.L. Joseph and James Parker MP addressing the crowd and the band marching past Anfield Post Office and John Irwin Sons and Co Ltd. Wounded soldiers are seen being unloaded from ambulances before going on a sea trip. The third section shows a Liverpool Police Inspection at Sefton Park on 22nd June 1922 and the final story shows the air minister attending a ceremony at Chester Cathedral in November 1927 for airmen who fell during the First World War. | |||
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| THE LIVERPOOL INVALID CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION CHILD WELFARE CENTRE | |||
| Date: *1916 Film Number: 35 | |||
| Women with children seen approaching the Central Office; interior shot of the office where a child is being weighed. Various scenes at Leasowe Hospital: a babies ward, patients before and after treatment, children in bed, and men working in the garden. Closing shot of the staff. | |||
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| [FIRST WORLD WAR NEWSREEL COMPILATION] | |||
| Date: c1916 Film Number: 47 | |||
| A Royal visit to Blackburn - the King reviews the Brigade of Guards in Hyde Park - a field gun competition - South African Labour Battalion in France - Air trainees take a balloon ride - the wreckage of a German bomber - troops try on gas masks - children playing in St. James' Park. | |||
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| [THE LAUNCHING OF FORMBY LIFEBOAT] | |||
| Date: c1916 Film Number: 58 | |||
| The lifeboat, the John and Henrietta, is towed out across the beach to the water's edge by a horse-drawn carriage. Shots as it is launched and the crew start to row it out to sea. This film, along with thousands of others from across the country, can also be viewed online as part of BFI: Britain on Film - player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/ | |||
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| THE KING AND QUEEN VISIT A SHIPYARD | |||
| Date: 1916/17 Film Number: 258 | |||
| King George V and Queen Mary visit a north-east shipyard on the Wear. They tour the docks while various ships and shipbuilding activities can be seen in the background. The shipyard workers form a patriotic and enthusiastic audience. | |||
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