121-140

121 EMPIRE DAY CELEBRATIONS
Boston 1928
3.5 min B/W Silent 16mm from 35mm
Additional footage of the children's parade and sports in Central Park. (Similar to, but not duplicating No 013.)

122 CORONATION CELEBRATION
Boston 1911
3 min B/W Silent 16mm from 35mm
Schoolchildren on their way down Norman Avenue towards Oldrid's Park (now Central Park) for the Coronation Tea Party. The Town Band, and a large crowd of children in their party best pass the camera, with some adults in attendance.

123 HOSPITAL CARNIVAL (NEWSREEL)
Boston 1932
8.5 min B/W Silent 16mm from 35mm
Cinema newsreel footage of the Carnival Queen's coronation, and some floats from the main procession. (Coronation material usefully supplements No 100, but the procession scenes are in general inferior.)

124 FYDELL HOUSE GARDEN PARTY
Boston 1935
2.25 min B/W Silent 16mm
Civic personalities at a Garden Party to mark the handing over of Fydell House for public service.

125 LAYING FOUNDATION STONE OF NURSES' HOME
Boston 1934
2 min B/W Silent 16mm
Civic ceremony during the building of the Nurses' Home, for which the 1932 Carnival (see 100, 123) raised the money. Both Home and Hospital are now (1994) derelict.

126 CHILDREN AT HOME
Boston 1934
2 min B/W Silent 16mm
Small group of well-to-do children play in the garden, with tricycle, pedal car shaped like an aeroplane, etc. Small boy in Eton collar. A delightful item, of considerable social interest.

127 LINCOLN STREET SCENES
Lincoln c1930
3 min B/W Silent 16mm
Busy street scenes in the City Centre, with motor and horse-drawn traffic. Some views of Steep Hill, etc, and scenes by the river.

128 DAGENHAM GIRL PIPERS VISIT GRIMSBY
Grimsby c1938
3 min B/W Silent 16mm
The girls are first seen at the station, then parading through the streets to the theatre. Big close-ups of individual girls, and some interesting street scenes.

129 SEA FRONT & PIER (Cleethorpes)
Cleethorpes c1938
2 min B/W Silent 16mm
Trolley buses turning; views of the sea front and pier.

130 WE CHOSE SKEGNESS
Skegness 1961
25 min Colour Sound 16mm
Publicity film intended for wide showing to attract visitors. Good coverage of all amusements and amenities. (The original camera footage survives, but the track negative of narration by Richard Baker has not been located. A sepmag copy track is held.)

131 CLEANER FIELDS - GREATER YIELDS
Boston & District 1952
12.5 min B/W Sound 16mm
A promotional film for Hardy & Collins on state-of-the-art crop-spraying both from the ground and the air. Good aerial views of Boston, and some excellent agricultural scenes, though the advice (e.g. to spray DDT and Nicotine) is hilariously outdated.

132 A BOSTON STORY
Boston 1951
16.5 min B/W Sound 16mm
An American visits the Festival of Britain in London, then goes on to attend the Festival celebrations in Boston. There are many individual sequences of archival interest, notably a children's massed gym display, a Pageant, motor cycle racing, the May Fair, and an aerial display including stunts and the latest Gloster Meteor jet.

133 SKATING NEAR BOSTON
Boston 1937
0.75 min Colour Silent 16mm
Skating at Cowbridge, just north of Boston, on the frozen Maud Foster Drain.

134 BEACH SCENES (colour)
Skegness c1937
2.5 min Colour Silent 16mm Research only
Family scenes, girls with beach ball, kids buy ices.

135 BOSTON MAY FAIR (1949)
Boston 1949
3 min B/W Silent 16mm
Showmen are seen erecting the rides; after trying the dodgems, the Mayor and party retire to the Assembly Rooms for refreshment, where some of the showmen join them. The public are also seen on some of the rides.

136 THE GREAT GALE (Extract)
Sutton on Sea & Holbeach Marsh 1953
4 min B/W Sound 16mm
This extract from a Massey-Ferguson promotional film shows their tractors at work repairing the sea defences after the extensive damage caused by the storm of January 1953.

137 SUTTON ON SEA STORM DAMAGE
Sutton on Sea 1953
11.5 min B/W Silent 16mm
Dramatic footage showing the damage to houses and sea defences caused by the storm of January 1953, and work in progress on repairs, mostly lorries dumping slag to fill the gaps. (Note: part of the film was shot at silent speed, part at sound speed.)

138 PLANES
Humberston 1931
3 min B/W Silent 16mm
Various planes stationary on the sands, being manoeuvred into position, and taking off. A parachutist jumps from one of the planes and is picked up by a recovery vehicle. The planes seen include a de Haviland Puss Moth, Spartan biplane, Robinson Redwing, Blackburn Bluebird and Blackburn Lincock.

139 BEACH SCENES
Sutton, Mablethorpe 1929/30
4 min B/W Silent 16mm
Family scenes of considerable social interest, especially for what now seems absurdly inappropriate costume, e.g. women in town outfits and baby in sand pit wearing a lace edged dress.

140 FLOWERS OF THE FENS
Spalding 1935
11 min B/W Silent 16mm
The growing of flowers under glass and in the fields; the packing and despatch of cut flowers to market; the ploughing out and cleaning of bulbs. A revealing insight into the bulb industry of the 1930s, hugely labour-intensive, and in striking contrast with modern practices.