241-260

241 BATHING THE BABY
Brandon c1950
2 min B/W Silent 16mm
A very new baby being bathed by formidable (though doubtless loving) uniformed nanny in massive square headress. Afterwards, towels, talcum powder, etc.

242 FARMING AT BRANDON (1963)
Brandon 1963
12 min Colour Silent 16mm
Sugar beet drilling, hoeing and singling; baling; cockfoot cutting and threshing; ploughing and disc harrowing. Scenes intended as part of a longer film, never completed. Of some interest, though less striking than the same producer's earlier farming material (170-6, 247-9).

243 HUMBER FERRY CROSSING
Humber 1949
1.25 min Colour Silent 16mm
Scenes of the river, and activity on board. Cars being off-loaded in what seems a rather perilous fashion. Atmospheric item, but lacking any clear structure.

244 AMERICAN PILGRIMAGE & SEAMEN'S SUNDAY
Boston 1950
9.75 min B/W Silent 16mm
Inspection of visiting survey vessel, HMS Sharpshooter, at Boston docks by the mayor, Councillor Mowbray; parade through Boston streets, and scenes at the Boston Memorial in Boston Stump. (Includes material at both sound and silent speeds).

245 ISAAC NEWTON EXHIBITION
Grantham 1963
11 min Colour Sound* 16mm
Exhibition at the former Grantham Public Library (now the Museum). Static shots of Newton memorabilia, with various mechanical exhibits demonstrated, such as the colour wheel.

246 HUMBER FERRY
Humber 1970s
c 1 min B/W Silent 16mm
River scenes as viewed from the ferry during the crossing.

247 DE-HORNING DAIRY CATTLE
Brandon 1948
3.25 min B/W Silent 16mm
Cattle in a restraining pen have their mouths tied shut and their heads held by three or four men, while the vet saws the horns off and applies dressings to the stumps.

248 DRIER SHED
Brandon 1948
4 min B/W Silent 16mm
Grain being unloaded from trucks and fed through the drier; the process is shown in considerable detail.

249 FARMING AT BRANDON (1948-52)
Brandon 1948-52
14.25 min Colour Silent 16mm
Miscellaneous farm scenes. Threshing swede seed, American style; wheat harvest; a major rick fire in progress (extensive coverage); drilling sugar beet; rolling wheat; tractor pulling out tree stumps and dumping earth; spreading fertiliser, harrowing, potato planting; laying drains.

250 WATER IN OUR LIVES
Spalding & District 1965
10 min Colour Sound* 8mm
Various aspects of water supply and consumption. Useful sequences at Sugar Beet Factory, Dairy, Bourne and Pode Hole pumping stations; also odd exterior shots of vanished landmarks (e.g. Spalding Laundry, Swimming Pool.)

251 HARVEST AT HECKINGTON
East Heckington 1956
1.75 min Colour Silent 16mm
Horse-drawn reaper-binder, horse-drawn carts, men with elevator building straw stack, men in fields arranging stooks. An "old-fashioned" item, despite relatively late date.

252 STEAM PLOUGHING
East Heckington 1956
1.25 min Colour Silent 16mm
Two steam traction engines with winding gear tow a reversible plough back and forth across the field, using a steel cable. A man sits on the plough to steer it. One of the steam engines is now preserved in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life, Lincoln.

253 STEAM ENGINE RALLY
Carrington 1958
1.25 min Colour Silent 16mm
Traction engines and vintage vehicles. Large traction engine travelling along main road.

254 SPRING HARVEST
Spalding & District 1973
12 min Colour Sound* 8mm
The growing and packing of daffodils and tulips, with scenes in fields and greenhouses. Also, tulips being headed; Tulip Parade floats being built; a few Parade scenes.

255 KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING
Holbeach c1973
c12 min Colour Sound* 8mm
The production of custom-made stone surround fireplaces at Parkers of Holbeach. Cutting up the stone; trial assembly; numbering the pieces; other types of stone fireplace under construction; mantelpieces and wooden surrounds being shaped and finished.

256 CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
Lincoln 1933
19 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Fiction film produced by Lincoln Amateur Film Society and re-discovered sixty years later. An item of considerable social interest both for its locations (large house, local quarry) and innumerable incidental details (e.g. dance band crooner performing his numbers through a megaphone.) And the story, though a little naive, remains thoroughly watchable in its own right.

257 LINCOLN SHOPS (WOODHEAD'S)
Lincoln 1955
4 min B/W Mute 9.5mm
Home-made promotional film, with scenes of considerable archival interest in photographic and electrical shops, TV and Radio repair workshop, and early launderettes. A few street scenes also. (The original voice-over recording, a technical disaster and unplayable, has been 95% transcribed for reference.)

258 BUTLINS (1936)
Skegness 1936
2 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Amateur film taken within six weeks of the opening, and believed to be the earliest known footage of the Skegness Butlins. It shows the pool, a beauty contest, the boating lake, swings, chalets, and organised games.

259 LINCOLN FLOODS
Lincoln 1947
0.75 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Residential street, fields, and Brayford Pool, during major flooding which followed the sudden thaw.

260 FORGOTTEN LINE
Sutton Bridge & Various 1964
12 min Colour Sound 16mm
Retrospective lament for the Midland and Great Northern Railway, (closed in 1959) which once linked Peterborough to Kings Lynn, with a branch from Sutton Bridge to Spalding. A few excellent steam train shots, but mainly scenes of sad dereliction. Many abandoned village stations are shown, including all three at Sutton Bridge, now demolished.