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Film Number

7111

Title

GATEWAY TO THE LAKES

Producer

Mr B Hardy

Date

*1969-70

Gauge

std8mm

Colour

colour

Sound

sound

Running Time

12 mins 50 secs

Description

Scenes featuring a group of young men with disabilities from the Peter Street Gateway Group on a camping holiday to the Lake District, with music and commentary Begins with the party leaving St Helens in a mini bus, stopping at motorway service station and arriving at a campsite near Grange-over-Sands. Members of the group buy provisions at the local farm shop, cook meals on a camp stove and wash dishes. Men from the group are seen on Lake Windermere in a rowing boat, aboard a steam boat and hill walking. Includes a speeded up sequence showing the group packing up camping equipment. Features visits to Coniston, Ambleside and stopping off in Morecambe on the way home.

 

 



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