221-240

221 REG SMITH RESERVE COLLECTION
Louth & District, and others 1950s
c 60 min B/W & Colour Silent 16mm
Family, and British Legion Band, footage, various locations.

222 HELP!
Spalding 1962
10 min B/W Silent 16mm
Fiction film by Spalding Gleed Boys' School. The school swimming champion loses his nerve, but regains it when faced with an apparent drowning emergency - which, of course, his friends have deliberately staged for his benefit. Of considerable archival interest for its scenes at the long-demolished Spalding open-air pool, and numerous other locations.

223 SS GLEEDIAN (GLEED SCHOOL TULIP FLOAT)
Spalding 1963
6.5 min Colour Silent 16mm
Boys from the Gleed School are seen building the framework of their Tulip Parade float round an old car, padding it with straw, pinning on the tulip heads, and, finally, taking part in the Parade.

224 THE FISHERMEN OF ENGLAND
Spalding 1964
9 min Colour Silent 16mm
A fiction film by Spalding Gleed Boys' School. The story, about a fishing contest between two rival groups of boys, is far from compelling, but school/street/river locations are of some archival interest.

225 LORD TRENT OPENS FIRE TRAINING SCHOOL
Louth 1944
20 min B/W Silent 16mm
The official opening (good views of Lord Trent and other local dignitaries) is followed by a display of marching, physical fitness, and some elaborate training exercises using all the latest equipment - rescues from a scaffolding tower, deployment of multiple hoses, the use of breathing apparatus, etc. The film concludes with a parade of current and former fire-fighting vehicles.

226 PIPEBRIDGING
Unknown, possibly Lincoln 1940s
0.5 min B/W Silent 16mm
An exercise in which skilled trainees (A.F.S.?) erect a pipe-bridge to carry the water supply over a road.

227 GOLFERS
Unknown, possibly Lincoln c1950
1.75 min B/W Silent 16mm
Various unidentified men demonstrate golf swings, with and without ball. Exterior location, possibly golf-links. Shots are separated by short spacers.

228 LORRY CRASH AT METHERINGHAM
Metheringham 1975
2.5 min Colour Mute 16mm
TV news footage. Roadside location outside the village itself. Firemen and Ambulance men at crash scene, rescuing driver. Print of transmitted item, plus unused camera out-takes. Of interest for methods, equipment in use, etc.

229 MALTINGS FIRE, SLEAFORD
Sleaford 1976
10 min Colour Sound 16mm
TV news footage. Interviews to camera, both on site during the fire (fire officers, owners of lost goods, etc) and afterwards in the Carre Arms as locals assess the extent of the destruction.

230 OPENING OF MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS, BOSTON
Boston 1904
3.5 min B/W Silent 35mm
Local dignitaries and their wives, together with distinguished visitors including the Lord Mayor of Sheffield, arrive in a procession of horse-drawn carriages. The Mayor of Boston, Alderman Joseph Cooke, opens the gates of the new building with a special presentation key. Astounding dresses and hats. Currently the oldest film in the Archive, and believed to be the earliest surviving film taken in Lincolnshire.

231 COUNTRY TOWN
Boston 1941
15.5 min B/W Sound 16mm from 35mm
War-time propaganda short about life in a typical English country town, never named, but actually Boston. Of outstanding local interest for its locations, the film's attitudes and assumptions are nowadays no less striking - e.g. the proud boast that most local schoolchildren know how to use a telephone kiosk.

232 FARMING IN HOLBEACH
Holbeach, Holbeach Marsh 1939-40
4 min B/W Silent 16mm
Thistle cutting; Percheron horses; greenhouses; harvesting and threshing; ditching; spraying potato tops with sulphuric acid(!). Also, a few skating scenes on Cowbit Wash.

233 TULIP FIELDS (1940)
Holbeach area 1940-41
6 min Colour Silent 16mm
Greenhouse scenes, with forced daffodils and tulips; then tulip fields, with many female workers wearing traditional Lincolnshire bonnets. Cultivation methods, and the actual varieties grown, are of considerable archival interest to horticulturalists.

234 SILAGE MAKING
Holbeach Marsh 1941
2 min Colour Silent 16mm
Detailed sequence showing cutting, raking, carting, and the building up of the silage clamp. Horses pull fresh cartloads up the side of the stack and each layer is spread with molasses from a watering can.

235 BOWSER RESERVE COLLECTION
Various 1940-45
c30 min B/W & Colour Silent 16mm
Family footage including weddings at Pinchbeck and Moulton; and scenes at Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa; West Deeping Manor, Tytton Hall, Boston. Some holiday scenes abroad.

236 FLYING AT SKEGNESS
Skegness 1948
4 min B/W Silent 16mm
Informal footage. Scenes at airfield; small planes, take off, aerial shots, landing.

237 BELVOIR HUNT AT STRAGGLETHORPE
Stragglethorpe 1948
4 min B/W Silent 16mm
Mainly scenes of riders and hounds setting off; little of the hunt actually in progress.

238 PONY CLUB RALLY (BLANKNEY HUNT)
Blankney 1948
7 min B/W & Colour Silent 16mm
Mainly children riding and jumping, but some good shots of the supporting adults.

239 BLANKNEY MEET
Blankney 1949
4 min B/W Silent 16mm
Riders and hounds moving off, also some shots "in the field".

240 A TALE OF TWO VILLAGES
Hougham, Marston 1950-55
40 min B/W & Colour Silent 16mm
Village scenes, 1950 (B/W), followed by succession of fetes to raise money for new hall. Occasional other items, notably, repairs being made to river bank to avert flooding. Fete material (somewhat repetitive) varies in quality and interest, but includes useful and unusual material.