Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22199 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| ANNUAL GALA; HIGH FORCE; VENTURE MAIL COACH AND PUNCH BOWL INN | c.1939 | 1936-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 7 mins 45 secs Credits: James Dudfield Rose Genre: Amateur Subject: Transport Family Life |
| Summary Amateur footage, probably filmed by a friend of James Dudfield Rose FRCS, which records an annual summer gala at Boldon; a trip to High Force waterfall; and the Venture horse-drawn stage coach (owned by Mr. Priestman of Shotley Bridge), on a journey from the Punch Bowl Hotel, Edmundbyers, County Durham, where a stuffed dummy hangs from the pub sign (perhaps representing a highwayman). |
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Description
Amateur footage, probably filmed by a friend of James Dudfield Rose FRCS, which records an annual summer gala at Boldon; a trip to High Force waterfall; and the Venture horse-drawn stage coach (owned by Mr. Priestman of Shotley Bridge), on a journey from the Punch Bowl Hotel, Edmundbyers, County Durham, where a stuffed dummy hangs from the pub sign (perhaps representing a highwayman).
Two friends leave a house, probably in County Durham. They pose jokily for the camera.
A man in suit and...
Amateur footage, probably filmed by a friend of James Dudfield Rose FRCS, which records an annual summer gala at Boldon; a trip to High Force waterfall; and the Venture horse-drawn stage coach (owned by Mr. Priestman of Shotley Bridge), on a journey from the Punch Bowl Hotel, Edmundbyers, County Durham, where a stuffed dummy hangs from the pub sign (perhaps representing a highwayman).
Two friends leave a house, probably in County Durham. They pose jokily for the camera.
A man in suit and flat cap stands at the entrance to the Boldon cricket ground, taking admission fees. Children’s races are taking place in a sports field at Boldon cricket ground during the annual summer gala. Some women look after stalls outside the clubhouse and women and men gather on the veranda in their best cloche hats and coats. Balloons decorate the clubhouse. A rapid succession of shots record visitors at the gala, including portraits.
Four women are outside the family home beside a car. A man leaves the house dressed in a long leather overcoat and trilby. Another young woman leaves the house in a similar coat. Two women friends and James Dudfield Rose lark around outside a shop. Portrait shot of the two women, laughing, followed by one of all three together.
General views of High Force, on the River Tees, near Middleton-in-Teesdale, the three friends in high spirits, clambering around on the rocks beside the waterfall and pool. James Rose has a cine camera slung over his shoulder and helps the young women climb across the rocks in this beauty spot. They perch on the rocks at the top of the falls. General views of the powerful flow of water over the falls follow.
The next sequence documents the Venture stage coach journey on part of its route from Shotley Bridge to Newcastle, part of the coaching revival. A driver and guard dressed in historic costume attach the four horse team to the coach for the run from the Punch Bowl, Edmundbyers. Three women climb onto the coach and they set off. The coach and passengers are pictured travelling the country roads from Edmundbyers. A further two horses are hitched to the coast for part of the journey and the Venture coach continues through the countryside. A stuffed dummy hangs from the Punch Bowl pub sign on a green where sheep are grazing. A horse and cart passes. A man walks out and pushes the dummy so it swings from the sign. A man joins him with a ladder, an older distinguished gent watching. He cuts the dummy down and they carry it away carefully, laying it on the grass.
Context
This film is one of a collection of home movies made by James Dudfield Rose ((1907 -1992), often with the help of his fiancee, and later wife, Elsie Adeline Rose. He was born in Jarrow to J Dudfield Rose (known as Jim) and Mary Ann nèe Skelland, and was educated at Jarrow Grammar School and King's College Medical School, Newcastle. As a child he was very good with his hands, building the most complicated Meccano models, a transporter bridge, the Eiffel tower and a working loom.
The...
This film is one of a collection of home movies made by James Dudfield Rose ((1907 -1992), often with the help of his fiancee, and later wife, Elsie Adeline Rose. He was born in Jarrow to J Dudfield Rose (known as Jim) and Mary Ann nèe Skelland, and was educated at Jarrow Grammar School and King's College Medical School, Newcastle. As a child he was very good with his hands, building the most complicated Meccano models, a transporter bridge, the Eiffel tower and a working loom.
The family had been keen photographers for several generations and Dudfield took up the new technique of 16 mm home cine photography with enthusiasm, recording family life in Jarrow, his trips abroad and more locally. His fiancèe, Elsie Adeline Richardson, created the intertitles. They travelled to Hamburg and Erlangen during Germany's turbulent inter-war years for Dudfield to learn how to use a gastroscope and bring one of these advanced medical instruments back with him. As a member of the Territorial Army he was immediately called up at the outbreak of war, precipitating his marriage in the first week of September 1939. He worked as a surgeon with the field hospitals of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) during the retreat to Dunkirk, where he got off the beach at 2.30 am on 28th May on the minesweeper HMS Hebe, having been told he “could either pack up and leave the wounded or stay and be captured.” His subsequent experience took him to the Middle East, which he photographed extensively, the siege of Tobruk, Lüneberg Heath and most memorably and shockingly Bergen Belsen concentration camp, whose horrors he also recorded on film. After the war, he continued his surgical career at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the General Hospital, Newcastle, specializing in biliary disease and gastroscopy, for which techniques colour cine films were made by the Medical School Illustration Department. The collection also contains records of his work filmed by the hospital technical team. He continued with cine film until the 1960s but still photography was a passion all his life, remaining a firm fan of Leica cameras. In the basement of his house in Jesmond, Newcastle he had his own dark room. He had a distinguished surgical career, being mentioned in Hamilton Bailey, the surgical bible of the time, gave a lecture tour across the US and was President of the North of England Surgical Society. On retirement he developed his craft skill including embroidery but especially weaving, having a loom hauled up into the tower of his Northumberland country home, Dunstan Hall, Craster. There he wove blankets, cloth and Northumbrian plaid, which was worn by the Duke's Piper, Jack Armstrong. Elsie Adeline Rose was born in Low Fell, Gateshead to Charles Bowman Christy Richardson and Sarah (née Moult). She was educated at the Church High School, Newcastle and Cheltenham Ladies' College. After school she qualified as a librarian and worked with the travelling library service based in Morpeth, in Durham City, Wakefield and King's College, Newcastle. She was good at drawing small cartoons and designs rather than fine art; she enjoyed calligraphy, wrote short stories that were published and won prizes, as well as personal poems. She contributed home made titles and intertitles to Dudfield Rose's cine films, as illustrated in the staged home movie Our Home. She was fond of dogs and had several corgis before her children arrived, which occasionally featured in the home movies. While Dudfield was away during the war, following bombing raids on Newcastle she lived in Edmundbyers, County Durham. The location features in the amateur footage Annual Gala; High Force; Venture Mail Coach and Punch Bowl Inn References: Biographical information provided by depositor James Rose, the filmmaker's son. |
