Bygone Lincoln DVD 3
....more old films of Lincoln!
Out now - Bygone Lincoln DVD3, the third in the series showing nostalgic old films of Lincoln and District, all narrated and interpreted for today’s audiences. The films which take local families down memory lane include:
“The Changing Face of Lincoln”
Filmed when the Pelham Bridge flyover was built in the City Centre in the 1950s. Hundreds of local people are going about their business.....on bicycles, or in the cars, buses, vans and lorries of the day. Hundreds more are seen in June 1958 as the Queen declares the bridge open.
The amazing film record of the marathon redevelopment was achieved by the late Ron Blow who regularly visited the site and took hundreds of shots on 16mm stock between 1955 and 1958.
See the forgotten streets that disappeared to make way for the bridge, steam engines, City Councillors of the day, the scary delivery of a 95 feet long girder through the streets, and the first users of the Bridge. There are many glimpses of forgotten homes and businesses.
The film recalls Lincoln's love-hate relationship with its railways. Before the new bridge, the so-called Durham Ox Crossing was where the former Great Northern and Midland lines enjoined and crossed the important road traffic through route at Pelham Street.
Exasperated motorists sometimes found the crossing closed for more than 30 minutes in every hour. The Durham Ox pub which once stood at the crossing is seen before the bulldozers arrived.
Lincoln celebrates the Coronation of George V1th (1937)
Everyone from the Old Contemptibles to the commercial travellers met in Silver Street, and walked to a service at the Cathedral, led by the British Legion Band and the Civic Party.
Spridlington in wartime
We see the burning of an effigy of Adolf Hitler as an exercise for the auxiliary fire brigade and their fire cart! WW2 aircraft fly over the village heading for local bases. We see villagers going to church, youngsters playing conkers, ice skating on a frozen Fillingham lake, and local hunting and shooting. Many thanks to the Sutton family for their kind permission to visit the films of the late Steve Sutton, a Spridlington farmer. They provide a fascinating insight into wartime village life in Lincolnshire.
City FC win promotion 1947-48
The Imps clinch the Third Division North title before 20,000 at Sincil Bank..again thanks to the late Steve Sutton who filmed from the terraces and unwittingly provided us with the earliest known footage of League action at Sincil Bank.
Last Train from Wragby (1960)
Dr. Beeching’s cuts doomed the Louth to Bardney branch line. We see the very last train, steaming into Wragby to collect the last freight wagons.
A North Hykeham family’s cine archive 1930s-1950s
We see the Holmes family dig their air raid shelter in 1940 - and many more aspects of local life in wartime and afterwards. “Dinner Plates – not Armour Plates” ... a poster spotted as Lincoln socialists march against fascism in the hungry 1930s. These rare shots are also within the Holmes family collection from North Hykeham....footage left marooned on the increasingly rare 9.5 mm film stock and unseen even by the family for 50 years.
Superintendent Tom Pickworth’s films
The well known Lincoln policeman filmed Lincoln races, the City Centre, and the final inspection of the old Lincoln city force before it became amalgamated in the new Lincolnshire force.
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