COWEN HOUSE OPENING: MEMORIAL UNVEILING BY MARSHALL FOCH: GARDEN PARTY (ELIZABETHAN COSTUME): FAMILY SHOTS
Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 17608 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| COWEN HOUSE OPENING: MEMORIAL UNVEILING BY MARSHALL FOCH: GARDEN PARTY (ELIZABETHAN COSTUME): FAMILY SHOTS | 1916-1932 | 1916-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 13 mins 55 secs Credits: Sir Joseph Reed, Gaumont Graphics Genre: Amateur Subject: CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES HEALTH / SOCIAL SERVICES MILITARY / POLICE WARTIME |
| Summary This amateur film in the Sir Joseph Reed collection records the opening of Joseph & Jane Cowen Training School for Maimed Soldiers & Sailors at Benwell Grange in Newcastle, possibly in September 1917; the unveiling of the Memorial to the Tyneside Irish & Scottish Brigades at La Boisselle by Marshall Foch, an Elizabethan costume garden party at the ... |
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Description
This amateur film in the Sir Joseph Reed collection records the opening of Joseph & Jane Cowen Training School for Maimed Soldiers & Sailors at Benwell Grange in Newcastle, possibly in September 1917; the unveiling of the Memorial to the Tyneside Irish & Scottish Brigades at La Boisselle by Marshall Foch, an Elizabethan costume garden party at the home of Sir Joseph Reed, and shots of the family probably filmed at Hethpool House, Kirknewton, near Wooler.
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This amateur film in the Sir Joseph Reed collection records the opening of Joseph & Jane Cowen Training School for Maimed Soldiers & Sailors at Benwell Grange in Newcastle, possibly in September 1917; the unveiling of the Memorial to the Tyneside Irish & Scottish Brigades at La Boisselle by Marshall Foch, an Elizabethan costume garden party at the home of Sir Joseph Reed, and shots of the family probably filmed at Hethpool House, Kirknewton, near Wooler.
This section opens with a shot of the sign for the "Joseph & Jane Cowen Training School for Maimed Soldiers & Sailors" at Benwell Grange in Newcastle pointing to the opening ceremony.
A line of men, possibly disabled army and navy men, file past camera.
Title: Arrival of Lord Mayor of Newcastle & Opening of the Home
Led by the mace carrier, dignitaries arrive with the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Michael Moroney, for the opening ceremony he "Joseph & Jane Cowen Training School for Maimed Soldiers & Sailors" at Benwell Grange in Newcastle.
Title: Speech by Sir Arthur Griffiths Boscawen MP., Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions
Guests and officials at a table applaud and a speech is given by Sir Arthur Sackville Trevor Griffith-Boscawen, M.P. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Pensions (1916-17).
Title: General view before the Ceremony
General view of a large audience in the gardens.
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Title: [Too faint to read.]
Title: Unveiling of Memorial to the Tyneside Irish & Scottish Brigades at La Boisselle by Marshall Foch.
The official ceremony takes place at a memorial to the the Tyneside Irish & Scottish Brigade soldiers lost during the Great War, erected by the trustees of the Colonel Joseph Cowan Fund, and opened by Marshal Foch on the 20 April 1922.
Title: Sir Thomas Oliver's Speech
Sir Thomas Oliver gives a speech, followed by Marshall Foch
Title: Foch's Speech
Title: The Unveiling
The memorial is unveiled.
Title: The Lord Mayor of Newcastle's Speech
A salute and wreath laying by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle follows.
Title: General View During the Ceremony
General view of small crowd assembled at the ceremony, a young boy finding a viewing point on a bank of earth.
Title: Portrait of The Mayor of La Boiselle and of the Lord Mayor of Newcastle
Group portrait of the Mayor of La Boiselle and of the Lord Mayor of Newcastle
Title: The Officers of the Tyneside Irish & Scottish Regiment Salute before the Monument.
Officers pass the memorial and give the salute.
[Gaumont logo]
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[The following sequences are in Kodacolor]
Title: The Beautiful Daughter of Lady Chayter took the part of the Queen
Group portrait of some women in extravagant Elizabethan gowns and headdresses, along with a young boy and girl also in Elizabethan costume. Includes the daughter of Lady Chayter (Isobel (née Scott), daughter of Thomas Scott, former wife of Sir Edmund Chaytor, and later wife of Edwin Burton Fiske.)
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Home movie footage follows of various women chatting or playing with a pet dog in the gardens of a large turreted Edwardian country house (Arts and Crafts style) on a windy day. This is most probably Hethpool House, at Kirknewton, near Wooler, in the heart of the Cheviot Hills, College Valley. General view of hills and a small lake.
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Two women in woolen bathing suits play on a lilo in the sea. portrait shot of the two women, one in a bathing cap.
[Cataloguer's Note: Just off the D929 on the right (towards the Lochnagar crater) is the la Boiselle Tyneside memorial seat. This location is just to the north-west of the 'Glory Hole' and also almost exactly on the British front line of July 1st, 1916. This memorial was erected quite soon after the War, as inscriptions on its rear show. These state that it was approved by Presidential decree on the 13th October 1921, erected by the trustees of the Colonel Joseph Cowan Fund and opened by Marshal Foch on the 20th April 1922.]
Context
SH - Miss Jane Cowen was sister of Colonel Joseph Cowen of Stella Hall, Blaydon, Durham, a former owner of Newcastle Chronicle who died on March 24 1942 and left £1,489.624 gross. She gave Stella hall to Durham University in 1948. It was demolished in 1954 (1953) replaced by a housing estate.
"Miss Jane Cowen, OBE of Stella Hall, Blaydon, the only daughter of the late Joseph Cowen, former Newcastle M.P. and famous North Country journalist, who owned the Newcastle Daily Chronicle died...
SH - Miss Jane Cowen was sister of Colonel Joseph Cowen of Stella Hall, Blaydon, Durham, a former owner of Newcastle Chronicle who died on March 24 1942 and left £1,489.624 gross. She gave Stella hall to Durham University in 1948. It was demolished in 1954 (1953) replaced by a housing estate.
"Miss Jane Cowen, OBE of Stella Hall, Blaydon, the only daughter of the late Joseph Cowen, former Newcastle M.P. and famous North Country journalist, who owned the Newcastle Daily Chronicle died early today at her home." [4 March 1948] Evening Chronicle 4/3/1948 gives full obit. Miss Cowen gained her OBE in 1918 for services with local war relief agencies. She established the Joseph and Jane Cowen Home for training disabled soldiers and sailors at Benwell Grange. "Joseph Cowen, the younger, carried on the liberal family tradition and also became MP for Newcastle 1873 to 1886. In 1862 he bought the Newcastle Chronicle and in 1880 opened the then new public library. He was also responsible for the founding of the Tyne Theatre and Opera House which opened 1867 in Westgate Road.Joseph was educated privately in Ryton & then Edinburgh. University. He was a radical & supporter of the Irish nationalists & a notable orator. Strongly identified himself with the NE miners. Also an admirer of Garibaldi, Mazzini and Kossuth. Owned the Northern Tribune. As a young man had visited the pit villages and agitated for reform.He was known for great speeches, but he was also willing to embrace radical change in industry. This photograph shows Jane Cowen, Joseph's daughter, at home in Stella Hall. Jane was known locally for her charitable work and continued to live in the hall until her death in 1946." Also see folder in Collections-Contextual Info-on W Drive for reference to Cowen school - helps date opening. See also http://www.rolyveitch.20m.com/JosephCowen.html "Between them, Victorian MPs Sir Joseph Cowen and Joseph Cowen Jnr founded the Chronicle, rerouted the Tyne, secretly supported revolutionaries around Europe, fought to abolish slavery and campaigned for men and women to have the vote – all while running the family brickworks at Blaydon, Gateshead." "No 36: Joseph Cowen Born July 9, 1829. Died February 18, 1900. A radical MP and journalist and a friend of revolutionaries, Joseph Cowen fought to abolish slavery and campaigned for men and women to have the vote. He was also founder of the Evening Chronicle in 1885, where readers were kept informed about the struggle by Polish nationalists tying to rid themselves of Russian Tsar-ist oppression and the fight for Home Rule in Ireland. These were maybe not the usual topics for discussion in pubs and clubs, but Cowen’s mission was to inform and educate, having a high opinion of what the readers should be interested in. Perhaps more accessible was his pioneering of sports coverage, viewed in Victorian days by most as not the done thing, as they believed it encouraged gambling. The son of Sir Joseph Cowen, he was educated privately in Ryton and at Edinburgh University where his interest in European revolutionary movements began. On graduating he joined his father in the family business. His friends were a who’s who of European political revolutionaries and thinkers. Felice Orsini and Giuseppe Garibaldi, the foremost military and political figure of Italy and still a national hero, both visited Cowen on Tyneside and were feted by the Geordie public. Before founding the Chronicle, Cowen bought the Daily Chronicle in Newcastle through which he asked readers for financial help for Garibaldi. Even in the arts he found a cause to fight for, having the Tyne Theatre and Opera House built in 1967 to rival the Theatre Royal in Newcastle and what he saw as its cosy relationship with licensing magistrates. In 1874, he was elected MP as a radical liberal. While he had backed Italian unification and the abolition of slavery, he continued his demand for Home Rule for Ireland as well as the right to vote for all men and women. He died in 1900. An obituary in The New York Times said he was one of the most extraordinary men in Europe, friend to every conspirator from Moscow to Madrid. A bronze statue of Cowen, paid for by public subscription, stands in Fenkle Street in Newcastle." |
