001-020

001 ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSION
Spalding 1913
2 min B/W Silent 16mm from 35mm
Filmed in St Thomas's Road during the annual Catholic "Pilgrimage". People from every age group and social class pass the camera on their way from the church to Ayscoughfee Paddock. Local and visiting clergy are seen, also the Town Band. Itinerant potato pickers carry the embroidered processional banners.

002 HOME GUARD PARADE
Holbeach 1944
4 min B/W Silent 35mm
South Holland contingents parade in Carters Park to mark "Salute the Soldier" Week. Platoons approach along Boston Road, and take up their positions in the Park, where the Inspection is held; later, they march past the saluting base in Park Road. Seen briefly is the Holbeach "Flying Bedstead", a breakdown truck fitted with a machine gun.

003 FARMING AT SURFLEET
Surfleet c1933
4 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Filmed at Richardson's Farm. There are brief scenes of horse-drawn ploughs and carts, wood chopping, etc, but the main subjects are cut flower and bulb production, with scenes in the daffodil fields, sorting bulbs, and packing and despatching cut flowers.

004 MOTHER'S UNION MEETING
Surfleet c1933
3 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Filmed at Glyn Garth. Members are first seen enjoying an outdoor meal, then sitting in the large garden. The Vicar joins them, and an old gentleman arrives by wheelchair.

005 SWIMMING AT SURFLEET RESERVOIR (1933)
Surfleet c1933
4 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Typical scenes at what was then the district's established local pleasure spot. Youngsters enjoy the paddling pool, adults and older children dive in close to the lock, two young women have a swimming lesson, several parties go boating, and lock-keeper Mit Walker maintains a watchful eye.

006 SPALDING RAILWAY STATION
Spalding 1935
0.5 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Scenes outside the station, and on the platform as a train arrives and passengers board. Though brief, this item shows the station when it was still a major junction, with numerous signal gantries, lines and buildings which have been since been demolished.

007 SPALDING HIGH SCHOOL GUIDES CAMP
Middleham (Yorks) 1935
4 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Informal scenes in camp, putting up tents, fetching water, etc, and an evening Flag ceremony.

008 SURFLEET IN THE THIRTIES (RESERVE COLLECTION)
Surfleet 1930s
30 min B/W Silent 9.5mm Research only
Hand-bell ringers, a local football match, Scout Sports, and some informal family material including outings to various places.

009 SKEGNESS, 1933-35
Skegness Mid 1930s
15 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
A few street scenes in the town centre; beach scenes, with donkey rides, etc; and many scenes at the swimming baths. The film ends with a Carnival Parade of decorated floats, which includes the lifeboat.

010 WHO IS MY NEIGHBOUR?
Lincoln, and Various 1967
19 min Colour Sound 16mm
A film made for the Mothers' Union on the theme of people's mutual responsibility for one another. It shows volunteers organising a Pensioners' Lunch Club, hospital transport, Good Neighbour schemes, holidays for tired mothers, etc. Controversially, for its day, it also includes what were then felt to be graphic scenes of rape and drug abuse in its section on young people.

011 WELLAND YACHT CLUB
Spalding 1959
4 min Colour Silent 16mm
Informal scenes of members and their families on the river bank, followed by a spectacular series of capsizes on a windy day.

012 LOWLAND BULB FESTIVAL
Spalding & District 1959
17 min Colour Silent 16mm
Chiefly of interest for its extensive coverage of the first-ever Spalding Tulip Parade and of Paul Hart's Corner, a well-known former landmark. There are also scenes in Crowland, Surfleet Reservoir, Spalding itself, and various tulip fields.

013 EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATIONS
Boston 1928
2 min B/W Silent 35mm
Children parade through the Market Place carrying flags and banners on their way to Central Park, where they take part in various sports including a tug of war and a barrel race. Prominent councillors also take part in a race.
See also: No 121

014 SPALDING MARKET DAY
Spalding 1933
0.5 min B/W Silent 16mm
New Road, with cattle in the street outside the Black Swan; the Sheepmarket, filmed from outside the Post Office, with sheep in pens in the foreground; Hall Place filmed from outside the present Barclays Bank, with the old Corn Exchange visible in the background; close ups of market stall at the end of Red Lion Street.

015 ANSTY'S ACROBATIC ANTICS
Spalding c1933
1.5 min B/W Silent 16mm
In the garden, two young men in immaculate whites give an amateurish gymnastic display, using chairs, tables, ladders, etc, rather than regular vaulting horses. In fact, both men were keen athletes, who coached at local Youth Clubs, and they frequently performed at Garden Fetes, often with their Club teams. (No 271 includes one such display.)

016 CHOIR OUTING
Various, non-Lincolnshire 1933
4 min B/W Silent 16mm
The Choir of the Spalding Congregational Church on their Annual Outing; they visit Leicester, Kenilworth, Warwick and Stratford on Avon.

017 PROCLAMATION OF KING GEORGE V
Boston 1910
2 min B/W Silent 35mm
Troops, Police, Fire brigade, Scouts, Boys' Brigade, Choir and civic dignitaries move in procession from Boston Stump to the Assembly Rooms, where the Proclamation is read from the balcony, and Boston’s youngest boy scout raises the flag; large crowds witness the event.

018 U.S. AMBASSADOR VISITS BOSTON
Boston 1937
1 min B/W Sound 16mm from 35mm
Joseph Kennedy walks from the Stump to Fydell House, where he opens the American Room and addresses an invited audience in the garden; part of his speech is seen and heard in the film.

019 THANKSGIVING DAY CELEBRATED (1942)
Boston 1942
1 min B/W Sound 16mm from 35mm
American troops parade through cheering crowds to a service in the Stump, where the U.S. Colonel lays a wreath on the Boston Memorial.

020 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN CELEBRATED
Boston 1951
2 min B/W Sound 16mm from 35mm
Boston's Festival Queen is crowned and parades through the streets. Historical pageant on the Football Ground, featuring Danes, Crusaders and the Pilgrim Fathers.