An amateur film made by Chris Anderson and Peter Moore recording events and activities taking place as part in Woodhouse Close Carnival in Bishop Auckland during 1976. The film features a number of parades through the area featuring ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band as well as football matches for the boys and games of netball for the girls and swimming events taking place in the local pool. Title: The 1976 Woodhouse Close Carnival Week The film opens on a montage...

An amateur film made by Chris Anderson and Peter Moore recording events and activities taking place as part in Woodhouse Close Carnival in Bishop Auckland during 1976. The film features a number of parades through the area featuring ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band as well as football matches for the boys and games of netball for the girls and swimming events taking place in the local pool. Title: The 1976 Woodhouse Close Carnival Week The film opens on a montage featuring two white cars travelling along a suburban street intercut with a series of sporting and community activities featured in this film. Credit: Filmed by Chris Anderson and Peter Moore The film cuts to show the exterior of a modern brick building with the YMCA logo in a window. Inside the hall a man in a bow-tie gives instructions from a clipboard to a series of young women. A street sign for Proudfoot Drive changes to the sign for Woodhouse Close Church which is followed by views showing the exterior of the modern church. A yellow Robin Reliant drives past along Abbey Road in front of the church, in the near distance comes ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band marching behind their banner dressed in their blue uniforms and playing kazoos or marching drums. They enter the grounds of the church and march around it. Outside the entrance of the church stand a number of people followed by two men lifting the band's banner revealing the writing on the rear; ‘It’s not the winning that counts it’s the taking part’. The band waits to head off again outside the entrance of the church, two young girls hold the strings attached to the front of the banner. The majorette with her baton leads the band back out onto the street followed by a number of adults. The film changes to show four men on a field, one attaching a net to some goal posts. General views follow of the field near to a gas holder where a number of young men in football kit stand or sit around near to a tent erected at the edge of the pitch. A match gets underway watched by a small crowd standing along the touchline or sitting in a parked cars nearby, including the Robin Reliant seen previously. The film cuts to show a football trophy sitting on a table while two boys play with the pegs of the tent. A group of teenagers have a kick about with the football as a coach drives past along a nearby road. By the tent a man hands out sashes to a number of teenage boys some of whom walk out onto the pitch. A view of two girls sitting with their dog changes to show two young women sitting in a Volkswagen Kombi van in front of which they sell various sweets from a trestle table. On the pitch two teams of teenagers play a game of football watched by a small crowd standing around the touchline. The game comes to an end. As the teams come off the pitch children play nearby. A number of young women stand around a woman with a whistle as she tosses a coin. On the pitch previously used for football a game of netball takes place. A small crowd watches on as the ball is aimed at the netball hoop. The sequence ends with the Volkswagen van seen previously reversing away. The film cuts to show a group of mainly children standing outside the entrance of the Woodhouse Close Swimming Baths. A young woman goes inside then the film cuts to show a number of people sitting on the edge of the pool. A backstroke competition gets underway followed by a young boy diving into the pool and doing a front crawl. A crowd watches a game of water polo taking place in the pool followed by a number of boys standing at the back of the pool area holding up a trophy shield. In the water a boy jumps with excitement [much of this sequence is dark and under-exposed] Outside the church a boy on a bicycle stands with a member of the ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band under a tree. Parked on the road nearby is a decorative float waiting to get underway with a number of costumed children standing on it. A number of children in costume as well as ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band prepare themselves to leave in a procession helped by a number of adults. A flatbed lorry with three young women sitting on the back turns out of the church gates onto Proudfoot Drive followed by the majorette from ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band leading the band. Behind them come another juvenile jazz band made up of younger children dressed in white, followed on by a number of children dressed in various costumes. Decorative floats go past on which sit a number of young girls dressed as flowers. ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band leads the procession of costumed children as well as a number of adults and a decorative float through the housing estate watched by onlookers standing on the pavement. One child is dressed as Batman, a group of young women wear school uniforms and swing hockey sticks. The girls seen previously dressed as flowers are identified by a label on the front of the lorry as the 1st Baden-Powell Girl Cubs. Two young men on a motorbike and motor scooter drive past looking at the camera as does the flatbed lorry carrying the three young women seen at the start of the procession. ‘The Bishops Woodhouse Close Estate’ juvenile jazz band continue to lead the procession through the street marching behind their banner while locals follow along the pavement. A man in a cardigan directs the procession around a roundabout watched by a small crowd of onlookers and the film ends with the three women seated on the flatbed lorry looking at the camera.