Includes 'Beverley Steam Fair', 'York', 'Images to music, the Minster', 'Lest we forget', 'Space to move', 'Steam on the Humber', 'Beverley Carnival 1976' and 'Burton Constable Steam Fair', all produced by Peter Robinson.
Duration: 1 hour, 1 min, 59 secs
Timing. Action on film:
Beverley Steam Fair [1970s]
Includes:
(00:07) Green poster for 'Transport of Yesteryear Festival', Beverley Racecourse 9-13 Jul [1970s].
(00:13) Marching band with kilts and bagpipes going past 'Burtons' shop in Toll Gavel.
(00:22) Steam engine, with canopy, driving past 'Burtons' shop.
(01:02) Two steam rollers driving down Toll Gavel.
(01:27) Marching band going past shop called 'Goodfellow'
(01:37) Cream and red single and double-decker buses.
(01:43) Man riding a penny-farthing bicycle down Toll Gavel with a steamroller in background.
(01:48) Small red fire engine in Saturday Market.
(01:55) Steam engines line up on the Westwood.
(02:02) Two shire horses
(02:09) Man in red tee-shirt with hand-held cine-camera.
(02:10) Steam engines on the Westwood.
(02:22) Children riding on a miniature railway.
(02:29) Two roundabouts, one with painted horses.
(03:03) Candy floss stall.
(03:09) Brass band.
(03:16) Man in red cap on penny-farthing bicycle.
(03:23) Lady in long skirt and straw hat on old-fashioned bicycle.
(03:37) Brass band with conductor.
(03:59) View from big wheel of funfair and racecourse.
(04:52) Open air circus with audience, ringmaster and small clowns.
(05:29) Acrobat and juggler.
(05:45) Close-up views of decoration on exterior of steam engine.
York [1970s]
(Accompanied by orchestral music 'Banks of Green Willow', George Butterworth.)
Includes:
(07:01) Postcard of York with 4 views.
(07:09) York City Wall with York Minster in the distance.
(07:19) River Ouse, near Guildhall.
(07:23) Garden of the Yorkshire Museum, with ruins and flowering shrubs.
(07:45) Merchant Adventurers' House.
(07:49) St Olaf's Church, Maygate.
(07:54) Bootham Bar.
(08:02) St Michael-Le-Belfry Church.
(08:07) Lower West Front of York Minster.
(08:15) Medieval stone arches.
(08:36) [Gallery Square].
(08:43) City Wall.
(08:46) Monks Bar.
(08:54) York Minster from a distance, with a car park in the foreground.
(09:02)[York Minster from outside the city walls]
(09:03) River Foss with York Power Station to left, and cooling tower to right.
(09:14) [Square tower of York Minster from a distance.]
(09:25) Swans and signets on the River Ouse
(09:30) Walmgate Bar.
(09:31) Walmgate Bar from within city, with Elizabethan dwelling houses.
(09:50) Two unidentified [Edwardian] towers on the skyline.
(10:03) Clifford's Tower.
(10:13) Castle Museum from Clifford's Tower.
(10:42) Inside Clifford's Tower.
(11:04) Busy shopping street, with crowds.
(11:12) White Rose public house.
(11:24) 'Barrel Organ Phil' with his barrel organ and monkey.
(11:44) Petergate with the Minster towers in the background.
(11:50) High Petergate with St Michael Le Belfry Church on the left.
(12:03) Mansion House, St Helen's Square.
(12:11) Statue on buildings at corner of High Petergate and Minster Gates.
(12:24) The Shambles.
(12:45) Little Shambles.
(12:59) Sir Thomas Herbert's House, pavement.
(13:13) Pleasure boat on the River Ouse.
(13:42) Lendal Bridge.
York Minster [1970s]
(Accompanied by soundtrack of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.)
Includes:
(15:09) 'Images to Music' heading.
(15:17) Sketch of York Minster.
(15:27) Interior of York Minster - The Nave.
(15:44) Close up of Minster Organ.
(16:02) East Window.
(16:06) Top of pillar with carving.
(16:25) Font with elaborate carving.
(16:33) Arches inside the Minster.
(16:40) Close -up of carvings of medieval musicians.
(16:55) Stained glass window with close-up view of saints in centre panel. More close-up views of windows, carvings, architectural details and a banner.
(18:47) Organ pipes.
(19:34) Chapel with the door ajar.
(19:45) Architectural detail above arches, [triforium] and stained glass window of St George
(20:32) [Entrance to Minster].
(20:38) A young girl in a red coat looks at the guidebooks on display.
'Lest we forget' Remembrance Day film [1970s]
(Accompanied by instrumental of the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers')
Includes:
(22:10) Single poppy in a field, and then a scene of poppies on small crosses, attache to crucifixes in the ground.
(22:27) [Beverley] War Memorial.
(22:37) Unidentified footage of a First World War battle scene, bordered by a gold frame decorated with a poppy.
(23:20) Close up views of the figures on [Beverley] War Memorial. These include a plane with a damaged propeller.
(23:31) Return to unidentified footage of a First World War battle scene, bordered by a gold frame decorated with a poppy
(23:58) People emerging from a memorial service at Beverley Minster.
(24:36) A military parade with drummers outside the Minster. This is mixed with unidentified footage of crowd celebrations relating to the arrival of soldiers in [France]. Possibly French Army
(25:44) Accompanied by 'It's a long way to Tipperary' and other songs from the period.
(25:46) Military parade goes past County Hall, Beverley
(26:26) Cadets on parade.
(27:02) Mayor at Market Cross, Beverley
(27:43) Military parade in Saturday Market, Beverley. Mayor watches from Market Cross.
(29:43) Military band marching in North Bar Within, Beverley
(30:13) Ceremony at Beverley War Memorial. Mayor and others lay wreaths of poppies.
(33:07) Return to unidentified footage from First World War, bordered by a gold frame
(33:36) Cemetery with rows of crosses. Hitler and other war leaders are superimposed on top of the image.
(33:43) Back to poppies growing in a field.
'Space to Move' wildlife film [1970s]
(Accompanied by 'Ride of theValkyries',Wagner, 'psychedelic' version)
(33:58) Start of film
(34:02) Slow motion opening of yellow crocus flowers, with bees pollinating them
(35:11) Ladybirds
(35:36) Bees
(36:06) Pale yellow butterfly
(37:36) Snails
(38:20) Caterpillars
'Steam on the Humber', steam ferries of the River Humber c.1980
(40:46) Start of film.
(41:01) Steam boat the 'Lincoln Castle' moves away from the quayside out into the River Humber.
(41:17) Close up of the paddle wheel.
(41:55) Close up of the plaque on the deckhouse which says 'Lincoln Castle'
(42:05) Photographer in the engine room.
(42:14) Public lounge areas of the ship.
(42:36) Man in a boiler suit works the controls in the engine room
(43:16) View of pistons moving
(44:00) Close up of the paddle wheels
(44:11) View from the stern of the ship
(44:39) Another ship passes by.
(45:07) Life boat suspended on deck.
(45:27) Other ships nearby.
(45:47) Side of the ship moving towards the quayside during docking.
(46:03) Passengers disembarking.
(46:07) Ship's bell with the 'Lincoln Castle 1940' embossed on it.
Beverley Lions Carnival 1976
(46:38) Poster leaning on Beverley Market Cross for the Beverley Lions Carnival, 13 Jun.
(46:47) Stalls in Saturday Market, Beverley.
(46:57) Marching band.
(47:25) Mayor and others in an 'open-top' horse-drawn carriage.
(47:36) 'Open-back' trucks with carnival floats and people in fancy dress walking alongside.
(48:02) Large wooden wheel being rolled down the road.
(48:13) Scots Guards band in kilts, sporrans and bearskin helmets.
(48:29) More 'open-back' trucks with people performing tableaux.
(49:03) View from steamroller and crowds in Saturday Market near the Market Cross, Beverley.
(49:41) View of residential home for the elderly, 'Minster Towers', in Lord Roberts Road, Beverley, with residents sat outside.
(50:25) Man polishing a steamroller. People on carnival floats.
(50:31) Crowds and floats in Saturday Market, Beverley.
(52:31) Highland dancers in kilts.
Burton Constable Steam Fair [1970s]
(53:27) Start of film.
(53:38) View of Burton Constable Hall with drive and lawns to the front.
(53:44) Young woman practices archery.
(53:51) Detail of crest on the top of a building, tower with flag flying, and classical statue in the middle of a lawn
(54:05) Crowds going into the Steam Fair.
(54:25) Two shire horses pull a cart with passengers.
(54:43) Two men adjust the chimney on a steam engine.
(55:00) Gold crest on the side of a steam engine, with motto stating 'Pro Rece et Lege'
(55:13) Steam organ with ornate decoration.
(55:28) A helicopter takes off.
(55:48) Several men riding on a steam engine.
(56:19) Small red steam-powered truck.
(56:32) Two steam engines and an orange 'open-back' lorry.
(57:01) People admire a miniature steam engine.
(57:16) Steam engine with canopy.
(57:24) Close up of steam organ pipes.
(57:36) Punched cards (for steam organ) going through the mechanism that reads them.
(57:42) Steam organs with helicopter flying across the sky in the distance. A small boy is taken in hand by an adult.
(57:54) Huge eruption of bright blue smoke signal for incoming parachutist, supervised by a man in a leather flying suit.
(58:02) Parachutist descends and lands.
(58:22) More shots of steam engines, and details of the dolls and statues, which decorate the steam organ.
(1:00:03) Fairground rides.
(1:00:19) Very small miniature steam engine.
(1:00:24) Bouncy castle.
(1:00:54) Banner with 'Furborough' across the entrance to the big wheel.
(1:01:17) Children with balloons, and the big wheel against the sky.
(1:01:29) At the front of Burton Constable Hall, the archers wave goodbye.
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