Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5485 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| OTTRINGHAM VICTORY DAY JUNE 8TH 1946 | 1946 | 1946-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 13 secs Credits: Vaughan and Co. of Hull |
| Summary This is a film made by Vaughan and Co. of Hull of ‘Victory Day 1946’ in Ottringham, East Riding. |
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Description
This is a film made by Vaughan and Co. of Hull of ‘Victory Day 1946’ in Ottringham, East Riding.
The film begins with a street sign for Thorngumbald, and a road sign for Ottringham, and underneath, a small girl holding up a placard, giving the date of 8th June 1946. Children in fancy dress parade past a group of older boys, not in fancy dress, who are watching. One girl in a white dress has a blackened face, another is dressed as a scarecrow, one as a chimney sweep, another holds a...
This is a film made by Vaughan and Co. of Hull of ‘Victory Day 1946’ in Ottringham, East Riding.
The film begins with a street sign for Thorngumbald, and a road sign for Ottringham, and underneath, a small girl holding up a placard, giving the date of 8th June 1946. Children in fancy dress parade past a group of older boys, not in fancy dress, who are watching. One girl in a white dress has a blackened face, another is dressed as a scarecrow, one as a chimney sweep, another holds a placard, stating “No coupons” another dressed as Dick Turpin. A group of men and women, with a couple of prams, watch from the side. The scarecrow has a sign pinned to his back which reads, “Back on the land.” They all congregate in front of a building. The film switches to a field where there is a women’s egg and spoon race, watched by villagers seated on the side. Another group of women line up in preparation for an egg and spoon race, and the film comes to an end.
Context
Celebrations are held in the small East Riding village of Ottringham – and not just in London – for the British Empire and Allied victory a year after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan. Although VJ day was 15th of August 1945, having the victory parade the following June allowed soldiers who had subsequently returned to participate. The whole village has turned out, with a wonderful children’s fancy dress parade and women’s egg and spoon race.
This is one of a small collection of films...
Celebrations are held in the small East Riding village of Ottringham – and not just in London – for the British Empire and Allied victory a year after the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan. Although VJ day was 15th of August 1945, having the victory parade the following June allowed soldiers who had subsequently returned to participate. The whole village has turned out, with a wonderful children’s fancy dress parade and women’s egg and spoon race.
This is one of a small collection of films made by William Vaughan who ran a business supplying loudspeakers for outside events in the Holderness area of the East Riding just after the end of the war. As well as Preston, he filmed events, such as agricultural shows and village fairs, in Welwick, Hedon, Thorngumbald, Ottringham and Ryehill, including celebrations of the Queen’s Coronation in 1953. He would then publicly show the films in the villages. Around that time, he also filmed sports days at St Philomena’s Convent School for Girls in Rise Hall, in East Yorkshire, where his daughter Maureen was a pupil. It is now owned by property guru and TV personality, Sara Beeny. |
