Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 22438 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
NORTH SHIELDS | 1972 | 1972-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 4 mins 58 sec Credits: John Scorer Genre: Home Movie Subject: Urban Life Industry Family Life |
Summary An amateur film produced by John Scorer begins with views of the derelict homes and buildings North Shields as well as the fish quay, Sir James Knott Memorial Flats and High and Low Lights lighthouses. The remainder of the film features the filmmakers mother visiting family or friends and taking a small child for walk in a pram around Cullercoats to the boating lake at Tynemouth where a father and son are sailing a boat together. |
Description
An amateur film produced by John Scorer begins with views of the derelict homes and buildings North Shields as well as the fish quay, Sir James Knott Memorial Flats and High and Low Lights lighthouses. The remainder of the film features the filmmakers mother visiting family or friends and taking a small child for walk in a pram around Cullercoats to the boating lake at Tynemouth where a father and son are sailing a boat together.
A piece of derelict land, across the road a row of terraced...
An amateur film produced by John Scorer begins with views of the derelict homes and buildings North Shields as well as the fish quay, Sir James Knott Memorial Flats and High and Low Lights lighthouses. The remainder of the film features the filmmakers mother visiting family or friends and taking a small child for walk in a pram around Cullercoats to the boating lake at Tynemouth where a father and son are sailing a boat together.
A piece of derelict land, across the road a row of terraced buildings. Another terraced street, on the corner derelict shop the hording reading ‘Mayfair’. The front door of another property in the same street with decorative portcullis.
A site of partially demolished houses or buildings, a metal sign on a wall reads ‘Site of the Top Church Stairs’. From a rooftop other buildings leading down to the River Tyne, from a courtyard windows on a building.
A cleared embankment and someone coming up a set of steep steps, possibly Tiger Steps in North Shields. On the Stag Line building on Howard Street the large emblem for the company of a stag on the side of the building. A woman walks past the front of the building.
From another rooftop a foggy River Tyne looking towards Newcastle. From the grounds in front of the Sir James Knott Memorial Flats the North Shields Fish Quay below. A cargo ship heads out to sea along the Tyne, the High and Low Lights in the middle distance.
A fire engine speeds past along a suburban road and an older woman comes out of her house walking along her street. A boy and girl kick a football around their front garden with their father as the woman seen previously walks up to a front door and presses the front door bell, the door opens.
The older woman stands beside a younger woman, next to them a pram with a small child sitting up in it. The two children seen previously pose for the camera, the boy holding a toy shield. The couple wave goodbye to the older woman who walks away pushing the pram, the other two children race after her along the road.
The woman arrives at a shop; ‘H.J. Grant’, she pushes the pram along a road beside the sea at Cullercoats. A man and boy sail a boat on a pond, possibly the Tynemouth Boating Lake. The woman pushing the pram arrives at a pavilion, the man and boy still play with their boat, the spire of St George’s Church at Cullercoats in the background
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The film ends back at the suburban house with the older woman returning the child, in the front garden a group of children are running around. The mother picks up her baby and waves at the older woman as she leaves.
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