Leicester Guild of the Crippled "Some Events in 1930"

Summary

A record of events organised by the Leicester Guild of the Crippled around Leicestershire in 1930.

Year:

1930

Duration:

0:14:31

Film type:

Black & White / Silent

Genre:

Home Movie

Master format:

16mm

Description

(Includes intertitles throughout.) The film begins with "The Leicestershire Automobile Club Takes us to Welby Hall" [This is an error in the titles and is in fact Sulby Hall in Northamptonshire], which opens with disabled people getting into cars outside the Guild Hall on Colton Street in Leicester, where the charity was based. At Sulby we see people feeding ducks as well as people in wheelchairs, bath chairs and on crutches. The entertainment is a brass band plays on the lawn and a magician.

This is followed by "Scraptoft Hall Garden Party - Given by Mr Bert Cole". There are lots of wheelchair and spinal carriages at the garden party where they are entertained by a ballet performance, a rendition of Land of Hope and Glory and some dance performances. The host, Mr Cole, is shown with Mr Justice Barlow. This section ends with wheelchairs and spinal carriages being lifted, with their users, on to flatbed trucks.

Next is "Knighton Grange Garden Party Given by Mr and Mrs Frank Smith". Sandwiches and tea are served to wheelchair and spinal carriage users and there is a close up of a woman lying down in spinal carriage smoking a cigarette. The focus is then on the entertainment, which consists of various dance performances, a story teller and a musical recital. The film ends with people in bed and spinal carriages leaving.


Credits

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Notes

Bert Cole of Scraptoft Hall was a Leicester based builder whose firm built extensively in the city during the 1920s and 1930s.