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![Sandbanks [Dorset] (1938) Sandbanks [Dorset] (1938)](/wp-content/uploads/films/9784/image_a_thumb.jpg)
Sandbanks [Dorset]
Date | 1938 | ID | 9784 |
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This edited black and white and colour film shows the Corder Family on Holiday in Dorset. The family take a boat trip to/from the Poole coast, spend time on the beach at Sandbanks and exploring the rural countryside.
![[Marlborough House; Longwood; Canford; Wedding] (1940s)](/wp-content/uploads/films/5423/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Marlborough House; Longwood; Canford; Wedding]
Date | [ca. 1940 - 1945?] | ID | 5423 |
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This film includes scenes of a boat race passing under Marlow Suspension Bridge on the Thames; a sports day at Marlborough House boys School with afternoon tea; exterior views of several school buildings with grounds; a brief family trip to Bodiam Castle and a short sequence of scenes outside the church at a wedding.
![[Camping and Holidays] (1946 - 1949) A Still from [Camping and Holidays] (1946 - 1949) showing members of the Dickins family on the beach at Broadstairs](/wp-content/uploads/films/5687/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Home Life, School Sports, Day Trips and Holidays]
Date | 1946 - 1949 | ID | 5687 |
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This film contains various scenes of the Dickins' family life. It shows them at home, with friends and extended family, on school sports days, day trips and holidays within the South East and South West of England. The online film clip includes footage from an 'oral history' interview conducted with John Dickins in February 2008.
[Holiday to Bournemouth [?]]
Date | [ca. 1950]; [ca. 1953] | ID | 4455 |
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Interior, seaside and village scenes, including those filmed at Bournemouth in Coronation year, 1953, by an unknown film-maker while on outings and holidays.

Filming in Sussex
Date | 1955 | ID | 3722 |
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Scenes filmed by R. C. Johnson and his son R. W. Johnson in and around Chichester and Arundel in 1955, on the shoreline and sailing at Dell Quay [?], at a Gala Day in Chichester, aftermath of a helicopter crash, in the family garden and Old Steine gardens in Brighton, visiting the headland at Beachy Head with the SS Germania grounded off the coast, closing with scenes of a wedding party outside a church.
[Cricket; Pontins Wick Ferry]
Date | [ca. 1958] | ID | 6387 |
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This two-part film shows the family eating a meal with the South Bersted Cricket team on a playing field, followed by a family holiday to the Pontins resort of Wick Ferry.
[Italy; Easter in Brighton; Scotland; Mudeford]
Date | 1958 - 1959 | ID | 5683 |
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This film contains footage from four holidays taken by the Dickins family between 1958 and 1959. The family visit Cadenabbia in Italy, and go camping in Brighton, Scotland and Dorset.

Sunnymede 1958
Date | 1958 | ID | 9120 |
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This family film features a wedding in Surrey (?), followed by several films of the family on holiday in Dorset and Norfolk. The film-maker captures working men hauling shingle off the beach, on a farm harvesting grain and stacking straw in a field. The family are also seen improving their home with new 'French' doors, windows and outdoor lighting being installed. This film comes with intertitles throughout.
![[Petworth Junior School; vintage car rally] (1960) [Petworth Junior School; vintage car rally] (1960)](/wp-content/uploads/films/3976/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Petworth Junior School; vintage car rally]
Date | 1960 | ID | 3976 |
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A home movie featuring the Greenshields family at home in Bognor Regis, at a school sports day, on day trips and on holiday in Dorset. The children are seen playing in the garden, taking part in the sports day and enjoying a holiday in Lyme Regis where they go on a boat trip to catch fish.
![[Rural Scenes] (1960-1962) A still from [Rural Scenes] (1960-1962) showing a tram at Eastbourne](/wp-content/uploads/films/4154/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Rural Scenes; Outings; Holidays; Bluebell Railway; Eastbourne Trams; Rough Sea at Seaford]
Date | 1960 - 1962 | ID | 4154 |
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A compilation of home movie material which includes footage of hunting with hounds, family outings to beaches, and holidays to the Westcountry.
![[Somerset & Dorset Railway] (ca.1962) A still from [Somerset & Dorset Railway] (ca.1962)](/wp-content/uploads/films/11244/image_a_thumb.jpg)
[Somerset & Dorset Railway]
Date | [ca. 1962] | ID | 11244 |
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This film shows a number of steam locomotives at various locations including Evercreech Junction, Templecoombe station and junction and Cole (for Bruton) as well as views from inside signal boxes. Locomotives include: 44102; 75073; 73054; 3216; 41243; 44559; 75027; 4691; 3720; 53808; 92220; 47465.

Our Wedding
Date | 1961 | ID | 1106 |
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A well-shot and edited amateur colour film of the 12th October 1961 wedding day of a middle-aged couple in Kent, and of their subsequent honeymoon in Dorset, Hampshire and Kent.

A Fishy Tale
Date | August 1961 | ID | 5035 |
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The Erskine family on a fishing trip in Weymouth Bay - where mackerel and a thornback ray are caught and various scenes of yachts and ferries are filmed from the boat.
Roving on Rails
Date | 1962 to 1964; 1965 [?] | ID | 4828 |
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This film shows a compilation of the final days of steam showing: The Isle of Wight Railway; Britannia from Broad Street; Great Western to Maidenhead, Marlow; Hailsham Signal Box; Brentford Dock Branch; Somerset and Dorset Line; South Croydon Steam; Linger Line accident; Main line steam at Wimbledon; Mona’s Isle - Manx Electric and Snafell railway, Laxey wheel, Billy Cotton ad on horse drawn tram; Bullieds at Wimbledon, 1963 inc. 34059 on milk tanks. The Queen Mary and several smaller steam ships on the water.
[Tour Through Hampshire, Kent & Sussex]
Date | [1964?] | ID | 3343 |
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This amateur film is shot in a variety of locations across southern England. The film records visits to towns, villages and rural areas including Canterbury, Pegwell Bay, Winchelsea, Brighton and Hastings and features the main attractions at each location, including Canterbury Cathedral, the Viking Ship Hugin and Brighton's Royal Pavilion.
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