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Film & Video Catalogue: Item Detail

Film Number

2426

Title

[SHOW HOUSE OPENING - ASTLEY PARK]

Producer

Cinephoto Film Productions for the Central Lancashire Development Corporation

Date

1975

Gauge

16mm

Colour

colour

Sound

mute

Running Time

10 mins 58 secs

Description

Film showing the opening of a show house built by Ambrose Builders, one of the developers on the Astley Park site. Mr Hemmings of Ambrose and Mr Duke of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation (now known as English Partnerships) make speeches watched by a small crowd and the press. Continues with members of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation board at an exhibition held in the first show factory built on the Walton Summit site of the Central Lancashire Development Corporation.

 

 



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