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Tour of Devon and Cornwall
Date | [ca. 1930 ?] | ID | 8174 |
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This extended intertitled travelogue shows a group tour through the counties of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset visiting many noted landmarks that includes the Madron Wishing Well and Chapel, standing stones of the Mên-an-Tol, the coast at Lands End with the "First and Last House" and the Daily Mail sign; Exeter; St Ives; the town of Clovelly in Devon; the moorlands of Dartmoor and Exmoor; the seaside towns of Penzance, Dawlish, Plymouth and Newlyn.
[Camp Scenes; Family on Beach]
Date | [ca. 1930s] | ID | 8988 |
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This black and white film features two sections, the first is footage of the Queen's Royal (West) Surrey Regiment on a military camp (possibly in Wiltshire, or Dorset?) and the second is the Lockwood family group at a day out on the beach (Felpham?)
Somerset County Council. The County Education Committee. Physical Education
Date | [ca. late 1930s] | ID | 312 |
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"This film shows the modern methods now being practiced in many primary and secondary schools in the county. It demonstrates certain developments in the syllabus of physical training for schools issued by the Board of Education in 1933..."
[Chalice Well at Glastonbury]
Date | [1937] | ID | 9342 |
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This short black and white travelogue film shows several noted landmarks in Somerset that includes the Chalice Well at Glastonbury, exterior views of Wells Cathedral and the Plague Cross at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire.
[North Devon; Glastonbury]
Date | [ca. 1939] | ID | 9344 |
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This short film shows views of the coast at Ilfracombe, a trip to the medieval village of Dunster, with views of the High Street and The Yarn Market building, behind a row of parked cars. A woman tours the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey.

Ottershaw 1940-42
Date | 1940-1942 | ID | 9104 |
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This colour and black and white edited family film features the family home in Ottershaw between 1940 and 1942, a visit to Somerton in Somerset and Mr Giles in his Auxillary Fire Servce (AFS) uniform with Bugatti Fire Engine. The family are also seen playing with toys in the garden, ice skating on a frozen pond, at a sports day event and scenes of a rugby game at Allen House School.

Wellingtons and Spitfires on Active Service
Date | [ca. 1940s] | ID | 9587 |
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This shows a crew making ready several Vickers Wellington Mk II aircraft from 104 Squadron at RAF Driffield (?), loading bombs and shells into the bays and moving armaments on low level trailers. The second film features RAF Fighter Command 501 Squadron equipped with Spitfire V aircraft leaving an airfield, in flight and mixed close ups of the squad on the ground next to a Spitfire V aircraft.
Somerset Holiday
Date | [1948?] | ID | 3863 |
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Film of members of the Ellis family on a caravanning holiday in Somerset. Amidst many shots capturing the Somerset landscape, two women and a boy are seen visiting the Roman baths in Bath, having lunch outside their caravan, visiting local towns, going to a farm and bathing in the sea.
The Fourth Year
Date | 1948 - 1949 | ID | 2998 |
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A two-reel film recording the activities of the fourth year of London Road School, in Burgess Hill. The film is divided into autumn, spring and summer term activities and depicts project work, school trips, sports day and preparing for the school play.
[Devon Holiday]
Date | 1949 | ID | 2407 |
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Haywards Heath & District Amateur Cine Society member D. J. Church and his wife holiday along North Devon's coastline, exploring the countryside, beaches and villages in and around Lynmouth.
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[Weddings and Holidays]
Date | [ca. 1950s - 1960s?] | ID | 3841 |
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Scenes of newly wedded couples outside churches in a haze of confetti and holidays in the Isle of Wight and Somerset, filmed and compiled by Mr. Lambert.
[High Diving Display]
Date | [ca. 1959] | ID | 6388 |
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Scenes filmed at The Tropicana (Weston-super-Mare Lido) in the late 1950s by Bob Burns while on a family holiday to Somerset (also on 6380). Men perform spectacular dives into the pool from George Pollard's 1937 diving boards, arching over the poolside.
[Family Holiday to Somerset]
Date | [ca. 1959] | ID | 6380 |
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A family holiday film to Somerset, that includes visits to many landmarks and places of interest that includes the City of Wells, The Tropicana Lido in Weston-Super-Mare (also on 6388), the Clifton Suspension bridge in Clifton, Bristol Zoo and Gardens, boating by the pier at Clevedon and exploring the old market town of Dunster.
[Family Scenes; Bridge Farm; Seaside Towns]
Date | [ca. 1961] | ID | 7130 |
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This colour film shows the family at Bridge Farm in Somerset and on holiday in Essex visiting the coastline at Frinton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the-Naze. Later in the film the family visit Angmering-on-Sea in West Sussex, returning home early due to the wet weather.
[Wells Cathedral; SS Great Britain, Bristol]
Date | [ca. 1960s] | ID | 2810 |
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Footage of the City of Wells, and the exterior of Wells Cathedral is followed by a close-up of its clock and other shots of the building. The film-maker and his family are then seen out for a walk with their dogs. There follows footage of a trip to Bristol, beginning with a visit to S.S. Great Britain, with shots on board the then derelict vessel. A sign outside requests donations to help fund the restoration project.
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