Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5739 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| FAIR PEOPLE | 1977 | 1977-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 2 mins 51 secs Credits: Mavis Spence Subject: Travel |
| Summary This is a rare film by Mavis Spence of Aberford, Leeds, wife of keen amateur filmmaker Roger Spence. It is possibly the only extant film of 'Gilligan's Galloping Carousel', a horse drawn roundabout that husband and wife pair Lawrence and Hilda Gilligan made famous, taking to fairs, as well as the streets of their native Castleford, for forty years. |
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Description
This is a rare film by Mavis Spence of Aberford, Leeds, wife of keen amateur filmmaker Roger Spence. It is possibly the only extant film of 'Gilligan's Galloping Carousel', a horse drawn roundabout that husband and wife pair Lawrence and Hilda Gilligan made famous, taking to fairs, as well as the streets of their native Castleford, for forty years.
Title – Fair People
The film begins at an outdoors fair, with children going around on a small carousel. There are close-ups...
This is a rare film by Mavis Spence of Aberford, Leeds, wife of keen amateur filmmaker Roger Spence. It is possibly the only extant film of 'Gilligan's Galloping Carousel', a horse drawn roundabout that husband and wife pair Lawrence and Hilda Gilligan made famous, taking to fairs, as well as the streets of their native Castleford, for forty years.
Title – Fair People
The film begins at an outdoors fair, with children going around on a small carousel. There are close-ups of the elderly couple who own the roundabout, Lawrence Gilligan and his wife Hilda. They are next seen on a street, again supervising young children enjoying the rides. They then set off back to their terraced house in Castleford, with the horse drawn carousel, with Hilda riding on the back, and followed by their pet dog.
Title – The End
Context
A lovely film of a couple who dedicated their lives to amusing local children, and in doing so, also preserved a horse drawn Edwardian carousel.
A chance to see possibly the only extant film of 'Gilligan's Galloping Carousel', a horse drawn roundabout that husband and wife pair Lawrence and Hilda Gilligan made famous, taking to fairs, as well as the streets of their native Castleford for forty years. Here we see local children enjoying the rides before they return, Steptoe...
A lovely film of a couple who dedicated their lives to amusing local children, and in doing so, also preserved a horse drawn Edwardian carousel.
A chance to see possibly the only extant film of 'Gilligan's Galloping Carousel', a horse drawn roundabout that husband and wife pair Lawrence and Hilda Gilligan made famous, taking to fairs, as well as the streets of their native Castleford for forty years. Here we see local children enjoying the rides before they return, Steptoe and Son like, to their terraced house home in 1977. This is a rare film by Mavis Spence of Aberford, Leeds, wife of keen amateur filmmaker Roger Spence. Roger, an active member of Wakefield Movie Makers, made award winning films on Super 8 and 9.5mm, adding sound to the films, and was also a member of the I.A.C. Lawrence Gilligan and his wife Hilda were nicknamed locally by the children 'Ma and Pa Jingle Bells'. They had been travelling with their Edwardian carousel since the 1950s. The carousel, which was cranked by hand, is now part of the toy collection in York Castle Museum, although there were reports in the local press in April 2014 that some of the horses had been stolen. |
