Don’t miss rare film footage of a century of St Helens life (From St Helens Star)

Don’t miss rare film footage of a century of St Helens life

10:00am Friday 20th November 2009

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GET this in your diary now for next Thursday.

If you haven’t been to the cinema for years, this is your excuse. The North West Film Archive is screening ‘St Helens on Film’, at Cineworld on Thursday, November 26 at 7.30pm.

The screening will consist of material from the St Helens area over the past 100 years, and will include film recently passed to the NWFA from St Helens Local History and Archives Library.

Take a look at life at the coal face with the miners of a typical Lancashire pit in 1910 and marvel at the scrum for pennies in the 1927 Perrying in Prescot.

Join with the congregation as Archbishop Downey opens St Patrick’s Church in Earlestown, before riding with the police driving instructor around the street of wartime St Helens in ‘Calling All Drivers’.

Drop in on the festivities at St Thomas’ Church field day in 1939 and at the Borough Centenary Parade of 1968.

Watch as the girls of Grange Park School prepare for their annual trip to the Lake District and see the legendary Eddie Waring drop in at Knowsley Road in 1966, for a look at life at our town’s famous rugby league club.

And was it your father who was ‘Calling Blighty’ from the Far East in 1944, as troops sent home their messages from the front?

The evening’s show will be presented by the Archive’s Collections Assistant Geoff Senior. Tickets are £4.00 and can be obtained in advance from the box office or by calling 0871 200 2000 The venue seats 180. Book early to avoid disappointment!

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