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ROLLS-ROYCE RALLY KIRBY STEVENS 1970

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WORK ID: YFA 7152 (Master Record)

TitleYearDate
ROLLS-ROYCE RALLY KIRBY STEVENS 19701970 1970-09-12
Details Original Format: 16mm
Colour: Colour
Sound: Silent
Duration: 3 mins 31 secs
Credits: Ken Ellwood
Genre: Amateur

Subject: Transport
Entertainment/Leisure



Summary
An amateur film by Ken Ellwood of a Rolls Royce Rally taking place on Sunday 13th September 1970 that begins in a layby along the A683 near Sedbergh in West Yorkshire where many Rolls Royce cars, and their owners, wait for the rally to begin. With the order given the cars depart in a convoy cutting to the end of the rally in the market town of Kirby Stephens in Cumbria, then Westmorland, where large crowds wonder Market Street looking over the vehicles parked there.
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An amateur film by Ken Ellwood of a Rolls Royce Rally taking place on Sunday 13th September 1970 that begins in a layby along the A683 near Sedbergh in West Yorkshire where many Rolls Royce cars, and their owners, wait for the rally to begin. With the order given the cars depart in a convoy cutting to the end of the rally in the market town of Kirby Stephens in Cumbria, then Westmorland, where large crowds wonder Market Street looking over the vehicles parked there. A banner on a wall reads...
An amateur film by Ken Ellwood of a Rolls Royce Rally taking place on Sunday 13th September 1970 that begins in a layby along the A683 near Sedbergh in West Yorkshire where many Rolls Royce cars, and their owners, wait for the rally to begin. With the order given the cars depart in a convoy cutting to the end of the rally in the market town of Kirby Stephens in Cumbria, then Westmorland, where large crowds wonder Market Street looking over the vehicles parked there. A banner on a wall reads ‘Rolls Royce Rally Kirby Stephen 2pm Sunday Sept. 13th’ changes to a layby on the A683 near Sedbergh where Rolls Royce cars are parked up along the verge with their owners stand around chatting. A woman helps a small boy over a stile followed by John and Peter Ellwood coming over the stile themselves and running up a hill that overlooks the road and layby below. Another Rolls Royce arrives passing a Hillman Imp. John and Peter rush down the hill slipping and sliding as they go. Back in the layby Kath Ellwood walks past three Rolls Royce cars, two of them open top. She and Deborah Ellwood look over a white open top Rolls Royce parked beside a modern car. Beside the stile seen previously a man speaks into a megaphone, a boy standing beside him. The drivers get into their vehicles and driving out of the layby onto the A683. Children sit in the white open top Rolls Royce looked over by Kath and Deborah earlier and wave as they pass. At Kirby Stephens the cars are parked along Market Street with large crowds wondering around looking over them. Traffic moves slowly along Market Street trying to avoid hitting pedestrians crossing the road, amongst the crowds Kath, Peter, and John.
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