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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

1232

Title

HOLIDAYS 1937 [SOUTHPORT AND ELSEWHERE]

Producer

Charles Taylor

Date

1937

Gauge

16mm

Colour

b/w & colour

Sound

silent

Running Time

7 mins 50 secs

Description

Scenes of a boy, baby, puppy and woman playing at South Pickenham (East Anglia). Followed by boys and a dog playing on Southport beach, also features scenes from The Lads Club Maude Street (?) showing boys exercising and the crowning of the Rose Queen at St. Augustines Vicarage (?). Cuts to scenes of children dancing in fancy dress and Mr Charles Every on his bicycle at Hill House Bath (?). Following shots from a picnic at Clevedon (Avon) are scenes from a sunday school outing to Southport and the Birkdale Camp boys arriving for tea and delivering bread.
[The preservation of this film was funded by a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund.]

 

 



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