Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 14603 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| WITH THE PARKERS, TYNEMOUTH | 1949-1950 | 1949-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White / Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 18 mins 45 secs Credits: Individuals: Ruth Jacobson Genre: Home Movie Subject: CELEBRATIONS / CEREMONIES FAMILY LIFE rural SEASIDE |
| Summary A home movie compilation by Ruth Jacobson produced between 1949 and 1950 that focuses on the family enjoying leisure time at the family home in Gosforth in Newcastle as well as holiday visits with family and friends including a trip to Tynemouth. |
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Description
A home movie compilation by Ruth Jacobson produced between 1949 and 1950 that focuses on the family enjoying leisure time at the family home in Gosforth in Newcastle as well as holiday visits with family and friends including a trip to Tynemouth.
Title: With the Parkers, Tynemouth, 1949
The film opens on a man and young girl sitting on a grassy hill in Tynemouth, overlooking a pitch and putt green and tennis courts. A woman joins the two. The film cuts to a young boy running around a pitch...
A home movie compilation by Ruth Jacobson produced between 1949 and 1950 that focuses on the family enjoying leisure time at the family home in Gosforth in Newcastle as well as holiday visits with family and friends including a trip to Tynemouth.
Title: With the Parkers, Tynemouth, 1949
The film opens on a man and young girl sitting on a grassy hill in Tynemouth, overlooking a pitch and putt green and tennis courts. A woman joins the two. The film cuts to a young boy running around a pitch and put green. Two men relax together in deck chairs near a woman on a park bench. A girl is plays pitch and put on the green. She then performs a gymnastics routine for the camera. The young boy then chases her. A general view of people relaxing on the hill follows.
Title: Vivienne, Toni & Jane Visiting
A woman stands in the driveway of a house with four children. The children play and fight over a ball, the woman comforting the boy who cries at the loss of the ball. The boy and woman join the girls playing football on a lawn. One of the girls walks towards the camera holding a doll. All the children play “ring-a-ring-a-roses”.
Title: Lenny & Children in Garden, 1950, & Ruth & Lenny, Children at Home, 1951
General views of Lionel Jacobson and the children riding bicycles in the front garden of a house. One of the girls displays her watch to camera. A young boy rolls around on the lawn, watched by Lionel in a deckchair in the background. There is a shot of a flowerbed that spells out a word. The girls point at the flowerbed. There are various shots of Lenny and Ruth in the garden with the children, playing, wrestling, and a woman tending to the flowers in the garden. A general shot of the garden follows. A man gets into grey Rolls Royce car and drives away. A girl peddles towards camera on a bicycle. A young girl picks flowers in the garden. Another girl does a handstand in the garden and then plays with a ball.
Title: Jonas & Vivienne Visiting
Jonas and Vivienne watch children performing gymnastics in a garden. The woman playfully chases the children around the lawn. The children eat ice-lollies. There is a general view of a house and garden, with a sign on the side of the house that reads “Leasyde”.
Title: Family, Pam Riding Near Bournemouth
A girl, dressed in riding gear stands in a farm courtyard. A horse is led into the courtyard. The girl checks the horse’s saddle before climbing on. Two riders head off from the farm. A boy in a red school blazer is throwing stones into a river. A man and woman stand beside a Rolls Royce car, the woman then climbs in. The girl rides towards camera. Cyclists race past camera in the final shot.
Title: Nolene, Hazel (Collins) & Us Before Angela’s Wedding in London
Two smartly dressed women cross a road and walk into the driveway of a house in London. A girl (Angela?) appears and gets into a car.
Title: Family with Grandma & Grandpa
A large family group pose for the camera with the grandmother and grandfather. The couples then smile and kiss which ends the film.
Context
Born Birmingham, January 19, 1919. Died Newcastle, February 8, 2009, aged 90
Regarded as the grande dame of Newcastle Jewry, Ruth Jacobson moved to Newcastle as a bride of 18 and became a leading light in the city and the region, writes Faga Speker.
The youngest of four children of Rev Dr Abraham Cohen, chief minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation from 1913-49, she received early training in charity work from her mother, Bessie. Armed with a receipt book and her natural charm, she...
Born Birmingham, January 19, 1919. Died Newcastle, February 8, 2009, aged 90
Regarded as the grande dame of Newcastle Jewry, Ruth Jacobson moved to Newcastle as a bride of 18 and became a leading light in the city and the region, writes Faga Speker. The youngest of four children of Rev Dr Abraham Cohen, chief minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation from 1913-49, she received early training in charity work from her mother, Bessie. Armed with a receipt book and her natural charm, she was sent to collect annual subscriptions for the Poor Children’s Boot and Shoe Fund. Marrying in Newcastle in 1937, she was a mother at 19. Another two babies soon followed. Her husband, Lionel Jacobson, had gained a degree at Oxford and trained for the bar. But he went into his father’s business, Jackson the Tailor, founded in the early 1900s, and ran it with his brother before its 1953 merger with Burtons, of which he became chairman. Despite her young family, Ruth volunteered for war work and helped with the Women’s Voluntary Service until after the war. She also started her lifelong involvement in the local Daughters of Zion and joined Wizo, soon becoming branch chairman. Keen on local and especially smaller charities, she and her husband set up a trust fund. But their main endowment was the Ruth and Lionel Jacobson chair of clinical pharmacology at Newcastle University Medical School, twinned with the school of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For over 40 years, each medical department of the university has invited a speaker from abroad to deliver the annual Jacobson Lecture. After Lionel’s death in 1978, their youngest child, Malcolm, joined Ruth as trustee. In the 1973 community amalgamation, the Jacobsons bought the site for today’s United Hebrew Congregation of Newcastle upon Tyne. The Lionel Jacobson House, the original house on the site, provides constantly used function and drop-in rooms, synagogue offices and a small shul for the daily minyan, as well as the kosher food facility. Keen collectors of contemporary art, the couple made generous loans to Newcastle and Durham Universities. Ruth was a life-member and fundraiser of the Friends of the Laing Art Gallery. A co-founder in 1948 of the highly successful amateur dramatic society, The Jewish Players, she appeared in many of its productions and led the company to its triumphant securing of two cups at the local drama festival. Involved with youth, she was chairman of the fundraising committee of the Northumberland Association of Youth Clubs, a governor of Rutherford Comprehensive School, and a member of the development trust committee of Newcastle Church High School. As founder-chairman of the League of Jewish Women in Newcastle, which she was asked to start in the mid-1970s, she became involved with the North East School for the Blind, where she used her thespian skills by acting out each character in the stories she read to the schoolchildren. Maintaining her interest in Wizo, she sat on its national executive committee and was a vice-president of Wizo UK until retiring in 2005 after receiving a Woman of Valour award. She was also active in the Newcastle Ladies’ Cancer Committee and was the first female board director of the Metro radio station, retiring in 1989 aged 70. In 1980 she was invited to join a group visit to schools and hospitals in China, organised by a London communal figure, the late Ruth Winston-Fox, with the aim of gaining emancipation for Chinese women. Asked by the deputy lord mayor of Newcastle, Labour councillor Bennie Abrahams, to serve as his deputy lady mayoress, she continued as his lady mayoress in 1981, as Mrs Marion Abrahams was too ill for public duties. Politically unaffiliated, she became a huge asset, especially with the lord mayor’s failing eyesight. She was appointed MBE in 1989 for her contribution to charitable services in north east England. But she retired from her positions as her oldest daughter, Valerie’s, health deteriorated with multiple sclerosis. Both Valerie and Valerie’s son, Nigel, predeceased her. She is survived by her second daughter, Pamela; son, Malcom; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Obituary: Ruth Jacobson: The Jewish Chronicle online, 26 March 2009 http://www.thejc.com/social/obituaries/obituary-ruth-jacobson |
