281-300

281 NOT A HUNDRED MILES FROM WEMBLEY
Spalding 1978/79
27.5 min Colour Sound 16mm
Film by Yorkshire Television. Behind the scenes at the Spalding Tulip Parade (held the same day as the Cup Final, hence the title.) Subject matter is very similar to No 280, though more emphasis is placed on the fact that the work extends over the whole year, and there is rather less coverage of the actual floats.

282 SPALDING FLOWER PARADE
Spalding 1972
3 min Colour Sound 16mm
Street scenes of the 1972 Tulip Parade which marked the 400th Anniversary of the introduction of the tulip to Europe. (Part of a magazine programme produced by the C.O.I.)

283 ROYAL SHOW, LINCOLN
Lincoln 1947
1.5 min B/W Sound 35mm
The Royal Agricultural Society's first post-war Show, attended by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Many brief close-ups of the Royal visitors, the public, prize animals, and machinery.

284 ROYAL SHOW, LINCOLN
Lincoln 1947
1.5 min B/W Sound 35mm
As 283, but different producer. Almost identical footage; only the angles vary.

285 ROYAL SHOW, LINCOLN
Lincoln 1947
0.8 min B/W Sound 35mm
Event as 283, but largely different material, including Brocklesby Hounds, and Jumping Trials. (Incomplete.)

286 LINCOLN LINKS UP WITH SOUTH AFRICA
Lincoln 1947
1.25 min B/W Sound 35mm
Lincoln's mayor, Councillor Carey, speaks by trans-oceanic telephone to the Lady Mayor of Pietermaritzburg (Natal) to mark the first official twinning of English and South African towns. South African High Commissioner, Heaton Nicholls, also features.

287 THE LINCOLN HANDICAP
Lincoln 1948
2.25 min B/W Sound 35mm
Camera car tracks the race round the Carholme course. Usual brief shots of bookies and punters. Jockeys include Gordon Richards. Good, detailed, view of starting gate in operation.

288 THE LINCOLN HANDICAP
Lincoln 1951
2.5 min B/W Sound 35mm
Usual tracking shots, etc. Jockeys include Gordon Richards, but Lester Piggott, injured in an earlier race, is carried off on a stretcher.

289 RAF RECEIVES THE KING'S COLOURS
Cranwell 1949
2.25 min B/W Sound 35mm
King George VI inspects the Cadets at the College he once attended, and presents the first Colour to be borne by the RAF.

290 BOMBER COMMAND REMEMBERS
Lincoln 1949
1.5 min B/W Sound 35mm
Sir Aubrey Elwood, Chief of Bomber Command, presents to Lincoln Cathedral RAF Chapel the Books of Remembrance containing names of 21,000 aircrew from Bomber Groups 1 & 5, based near Lincoln, who lost their lives in World War II.

291 PATRICK NUTGENS AT LINCOLN
Lincoln c1969
7 min B/W Mute 16mm
Many well-known Lincoln landmarks, street scenes, and old buildings, of some interest despite the lack of sound. Three scenes to camera (mute).

292 MAYOR'S GARDEN PARTY
Lincoln 1938
3.25 min Colour Silent 8mm Research only
General views of lawn, marquee, and guests in morning dress. A few close-ups. (Subject to severe colour deterioration typical of 1937/8 Kodachrome.)

293 PHEASANT REARING
Louth District mid 1950s
29.5 min B/W Silent 8mm
Filmed at various farms on the Walmsgate Estate. Pheasant catcher, laying pens; collection of eggs, and incubation under broody domestic hens; rearing field, gradual release into woods; a Shoot in progress. Of archival interest, as showing methods no longer in use. The keeper and his son feature in many scenes. The pheasant material is interspersed with other items, e.g. the rearing of ducks, the local rabbit-catcher with tame fox, some harvest scenes, and the hand shearing of sheep.

294 EAST COAST FLOOD DAMAGE
Sutton on Sea 1953
25 min B/W Silent 8mm
Extensive, often dramatic, coverage of the damage (flood water, residual sand, wrecked buildings and vehicles, the Acre Gap in the sea defences) and of work in progress on repairs, with pile drivers, lorries bringing hardcore, etc. The method of closing the gap by building front and back walls, then filling in between them, is clearly seen.

295 EASTFIELD ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL, LOUTH
Louth 1956
23.25 min B/W Silent 8mm
A delightful and detailed picture of daily activities both indoors and out. Children of all ages from 6 to 10 are seen at work in their classrooms, playing in the band, and having school dinner. Outside, in the yard and on the field, they play, jump, climb, turn somersaults. A number of the teachers appear briefly. A lively film, full of variety and happy bustle, with the camera often right in amongst the children.

296 FETE AT KENWICK HALL
Louth 1954
20 min Colour Silent 8mm
All the usual stalls, fancy dress, dog show, the South Wold hounds, clay pigeon shooting, and - in the pool - a demonstration by Brenda Fisher, Grimsby's record-breaking Channel swimmer. Lively, attractive material, with many incidental points of interest, such as dress fashions, and patrons arriving by bicycle rather than by car.

297 YOUNG CONSERVATIVES' WEEKEND SCHOOL
Woodhall Spa Late 1950s
2 min Colour Silent 8mm
Informal footage outside the Golf Hotel. Amongst many people well-known locally is Lesley Saweard (Christine Archer in BBC Radio's "The Archers".)

298 TERRITORIAL ARMY
Saltfleet, Cadwell, Norfolk 1950s
16 min B/W Silent 8mm
Men of Q Battery (Louth), 529 Light Anti-Aircraft and Searchlight Regiment, are seen firing out to sea at Saltfleet; providing trackside wireless communications at Cadwell motorcycle races; and at training camp near Stiffkey, with further footage at the nearby Langham airfield.

299 NEW PEAL FOR BOSTON STUMP
Boston 1932
1 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
The new bells, recently delivered from the foundry, stand on the ground outside the Stump, where various people inspect them.

300 HURRAH IT'S BUTLINS, WITH HARRY WITHERS
Skegness 1933
1 min B/W Silent 9.5mm
Harry Withers, leading carilloneur, plays a twelve-bell chime installed beside the swimming pool at Butlins Amusement Park for Carnival Week, during which he gave a number of recitals. He is seen hammering away at the keys, and the bells in their supporting framework are also shown.