Film Number

1464

Title

[STREET SCENES AND ACTIVITIES AROUND OLDHAM]

Producer

Cox Family [?]

Date

1948-49

Gauge

9.5mm

Colour

b/w

Sound

silent

Running Time

13 mins 44 secs

Description

Streetscenes and activities around Oldham in the late 1940s. Includes shots of the town centre; a busy market scene; men working on a building site; a woman pegging out the washing in the back streets; men tending to their allotments; people sat watching a brass band in the park; fairground workers setting up rides and stalls and passengers waiting on the platform with their luggage before departing on a steam train.