Made by Dennis Leather, a member of Vixen Films and Stocksbridge Cine Club, this is the second part of a collection of films of events in Stocksbridge and the local area, including demolitions, new buildings and the opening of Stocksbridge Swimming Baths. Part Two Intertitle – 1969 Intertitle – The demolition of Brackenmoor Cottages There is a row of terraced houses at the end of which stands a pub, the Miners Arms.  The houses are shown being demolished by the Lindley Brothers. Intertitle...

Made by Dennis Leather, a member of Vixen Films and Stocksbridge Cine Club, this is the second part of a collection of films of events in Stocksbridge and the local area, including demolitions, new buildings and the opening of Stocksbridge Swimming Baths. Part Two Intertitle – 1969 Intertitle – The demolition of Brackenmoor Cottages There is a row of terraced houses at the end of which stands a pub, the Miners Arms.  The houses are shown being demolished by the Lindley Brothers. Intertitle – The demolition of Button Row. There is a butcher’s at a street corner with a sign in the window declaring ‘Prices Slashed’.  Just across the road is a row of terraced houses with a hoarding for the Co-op and a street sign for Button Row, next to the newly opened library.  These are then shown having just been demolished to make way for a new Co-operative supermarket.  Behind them is the Co-op funeral service. Intertitle –Demolition of Stocksbridge Bottling Company. There is a shot of the back of the small company in Victoria Street, with a sign above a garage door, and then again after it has been demolished. Intertitle – Horner House Queen. A small girl in a Queen’s outfit, accompanied by an entourage of even smaller girls, walks onto  a platform where she sits on a throne.  Then a line of young women wearing sashes with dates on walk up to the front of the room to be greeted by a woman.  The small girl, Shirley tingle, is crowned as the Horner House Welfare Fund’s 1969 Queen.  Previous queens are presented to Councillor Vera Grand. Intertitle – Deepcar Playgroup Barbeque. The children of the playgroup, all in fancy dress and holding placards gather in a street with their parents.  They march off in a procession up Carr Road.  Two of the children are dressed as ‘Bill and Ben’.  There follows a game involving mice in a sandpit, ‘the mouse derby’, and children getting balloons. Intertitle – Deepcar Church Garden Party A man stands on a platform with children dressed up speaking to a crowd. A girl, Gillian Revitt, is crowned queen by Miss Peggy Truman, and she makes a speech, followed by other speeches, one by John Willie Turner. A man sits on the grass with tea shirt for Esso, ‘I’ve got a tiger in my tank’. Intertitle – Opening of Stocksbridge Youth Centre. Speeches are made at the opening, and flowers and a gift are presented to the guests, Sir Eric Mensforth and his wife, and we see the plaque commemorating the opening on 4 October, 1969.  Gordon Cummings, the Training Manager, makes a speech. Intertitle – Bolsterstone Church Garden Party People gather in the garden with stalls selling homemade cakes.  A brass band plays.  There is a stall selling jars of lemon curd.  There are also swings and games for the children.  One game is ‘Shoot an Ear Off’, and there is a coconut shy which some boys have a go at.  At the Parish market for 6th September, again the young ‘Queen’ and the vicar and Mrs Noreen Thompson, wife of Peter Thompson the Works Manager at British Steel Corporation,  make speeches. People wander around the stalls and a girl lets a balloon go.  Three identical small girls are eating lollies. Intertitle – 1970 . Intertitle – Oxley Close Sweeney House Site. There is an area of meadows and trees. Intertitle – Demolition of Florence Buildings. Buildings are being demolished by tying a cable through the doors and windows and pulling it with a bulldozer.  There is a shot of the cleared site, four months later, now growing wild flowers. Intertitle – Wilson Road Flats Completed. The new rows of flats are shown from a distance, and then closer.  An elderly couple inside one of the new flats are looking out at the view.  The next shot shows a row of old terraced houses boarded up next to a church.  Later, it appears that the houses have been demolished, and the clear area is shown.     Intertitle – Holling Busk Pinfold Improvement. There is an area of wasteland with rubbish strewn over it.  A bulldozer starts to clear it and afterwards it is green, and a fence is put around it for new playing fields. Intertitle – Old Co-operative Buildings. Two corner shops are shown together, Kitts and T Bates off license.  Further along is the Brightside and Crabrook Co-op with a plaque with the date of 1862.  Next to that is a second-hand shop.  Then the same area is shown with the shops having been demolished to make way for a new store. Intertitle – Site for new fire station. The empty site is shown with a bulldozer in it. Intertitle – Horner House Farm. The old farm buildings are shown as traffic passes by on the main road and some of the older farm buildings in disrepair. These are to be demolished for an old peoples’ home to be called Newton Grange. Intertitle – North Sea Gas Conversion. An area of land had been commandeered by the gas board with their vehicles park up near the clock tower.  One transit van advertises High Speed Gas, and the vans can be seen around the streets. Intertitle – Stocksbridge Swimming Baths Opening. Council Chairman Albert Davies makes a speech at the side of the pool to those sat watching in the gallery.  A plaque is unveiled by Councillor Tony Sweeney and there are more speeches, with a cheque for £14,000 being handed over by fund treasurer Laurie Sykes.  This is followed by some swimming races. Intertitle – Smithy Moor Gala. The Salvation Army brass band leads a parade down a street followed by parents with their children.  They arrive at the playgroup centre where the queen is crowned by Mrs Tim Leech, wife of the Deepcar Curate. Title – End of Part Two