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ST JOHN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL PARADE, SOUTH SHIELDS
1961
1961-01-01
DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Mute Duration: 1 min 38 secs Credits: Organisations: Tyne Tees Television Genre: TV News
Subject: CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES RELIGION
Summary Filmed Tyne Tees Television news item (mute) that records a Sunday school parade for St John’s Presbyterian Church (later St Pauls and St John's United Reformed Church) in South Shields, 1961.
Description
Filmed Tyne Tees Television news item (mute) that records a Sunday school parade for St John’s Presbyterian Church (later St Pauls and St John's United Reformed Church) in South Shields, 1961.
South Shields town square is filled with people.
A uniformed man on a podium conducts with a loudspeaker below. Children in uniform that include sea cadets, boy scouts and cubs, stand at the front of the crowd. Adults standing behind the children sing from song sheets.
A brass band leads a...
Filmed Tyne Tees Television news item (mute) that records a Sunday school parade for St John’s Presbyterian Church (later St Pauls and St John's United Reformed Church) in South Shields, 1961.
South Shields town square is filled with people.
A uniformed man on a podium conducts with a loudspeaker below. Children in uniform that include sea cadets, boy scouts and cubs, stand at the front of the crowd. Adults standing behind the children sing from song sheets.
A brass band leads a banner and parade of people down the main street, past the Odeon Cinema.
Spectators line the streets.
There are close-ups of small children dressed in their Sunday best.
Close-ups of the marchers follow, with an old fashioned cloth banner bearing the legend "Behold the Sower Went Forth To Sow, 1928."