Ratcliffe: Parade and Snow Blower

Summary

Home movie of a parade at a holiday resort and snow clearing from roads in Derbyshire.

Year:

1964

Duration:

0:03:30

Film type:

Colour / Silent

Genre:

Home Movie

Master format:

8mm

Description

We see a parade including children wearing fancy dress and decorated floats where we briefly see a carnival queen. The parade also includes a Shipstone Brewery dray horse. We then see children riding donkeys on a beach. The next sequence shows snow being cleared from lanes in Derbyshire with lorries with snow plough attachments and a snow blower. Some of the snow drifts are deep. The final sequence shows a group of children in a village street (probably Kniveton). One of the boys is dressed in a Dalek suit and he walks towards the camera.


Credits

No credits specified


Notes

The parade may be in Skegness but this is not confirmed. The Dalek suit appears to be of a type made by Scorpion Automotives which had a limited production run and is now extremely collectible.