Extracts from the Documentary Film Solihull in Wartime [3]

Summary

A service held for civil defence personnel in Malvern Park, Solihull during the Second World War.

Year:

1943

Duration:

0:07:16

Film type:

Colour / Silent

Genre:

Amateur Film

Company:

Master format:

16mm

Description

We see a group of civil defence personnel emerging from their headquarters. We then cut to the exterior of an Atkinson's pub and two of the men enter. We then see a group standing outside raising pint glasses for the camera. The men and women of the civil defence are then seen assembling in a yard and then marching to Malvern Park. In the park we see a drumhead service led by a vicar. Finally we see the civil defence staff leaving a church.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

This is the third film with similar credits although missing the credit for film-maker H. T. Lavender. It has been suggested that this film shows a drumhead service to mark the end of the war in Europe (VE Day) and was held in Malvern Park on 13 May 1945.