This film, from the collection of G Burns, shows aspects of Grassington in 1980.  It includes A B White bakers, Grassington School, and various scenes in Grassington Psycho-Geriatric Hospital shortly before its closure. The film begins showing a sign on the end of a corner shop, ‘A B White, Bakers, Grocers and Confectioners’, and the front of the shop.  Inside a man mixes dough.  Another lays out fruit pies and puts the rolled pastry on top.  Another younger man makes mince pies.  They put...

This film, from the collection of G Burns, shows aspects of Grassington in 1980.  It includes A B White bakers, Grassington School, and various scenes in Grassington Psycho-Geriatric Hospital shortly before its closure. The film begins showing a sign on the end of a corner shop, ‘A B White, Bakers, Grocers and Confectioners’, and the front of the shop.  Inside a man mixes dough.  Another lays out fruit pies and puts the rolled pastry on top.  Another younger man makes mince pies.  They put the pies in the oven and make bread and rolls as well as other cakes. Intertitle – Grassington School 1845 – 1980 By George Younger A series of photographs appears on screen in chronological order, with dates, beginning in 1910. Intertitle – June 1980 There is a plaque for Grassington National School, 1845.  School children walk through the village, past The Gallery, and play in the school playground.  Some of the children play with tennis racquets.  Inside there is an empty classroom.  There is a sign for Miss Oates’ Room.  Teachers arrive, and a boy rings the bell to return to class.  Inside a grey-haired female teacher and then a balding male teacher are giving lessons.  There is a break, and then some women are seated on a bench in the village.  A man walks across a field carrying a fishing rod, while another man emerges from Grassington Church House, acting as a polling station.  Other villagers are seen in the course of their daily life, some playing bowls.  A man with a beard walks past the Black Horse Hotel, while another man tends to his garden.  People are shown voting in the Church House. (Col.)  There is another short break and then there is a country road, with a view over fields, and onto a large building with a chimney, Grassington Psycho-Geriatric Hospital.  Inside there is a nurse chatting with another woman behind a desk.  Some of the treatment rooms are seen in disrepair.  The filmmaker captures shots of the grounds and elderly residents wearing large sunhats seated outside.  Nearby are some houses and countryside where some of the residents are having a walk, one being pushed in a wheelchair.   (B&W)  Inside the dining room and kitchen a meal is being prepared.   Dinners on plates with metal lids are taken out of large metal containers.  Elsewhere, residents are doing craft things, such as making soft toys.  A female member of staff is doing the laundry in top loaded machines.  Male residents are sat in a rest room, with a partition behind which is a room with beds being made.  In the rest room men sit being served tea.  A man is being shaved. There is a sign for the ‘Hour Glass Club’, where female residents are having tea and seated near a TV set.  A porter pushes a trolley loaded with bedding.  A woman is having treatment done to her feet.  Residents are having drinks in a bar.  There is a large store room where several cars are parked and man working in the workshop/boiler room, which has circular charts on the wall marked by electronic needles.  The film ends showing some of the property in disrepair.