This is a film made by West Yorkshire Police of an Anti-National Front sit down and demonstration and National Front march in Manningham Lane and Forster Square, Bradford in May and June 1976. There also appears to be an environmental protest. The first part of the film is also on film 4519. Intertitle - Sit Down Manningham Lane, May 1976. Forster Square, June 1976 There is a sit down protest in the middle of a street, in Manningham Lane, with people wearing party hats and holding balloons. A...

This is a film made by West Yorkshire Police of an Anti-National Front sit down and demonstration and National Front march in Manningham Lane and Forster Square, Bradford in May and June 1976. There also appears to be an environmental protest. The first part of the film is also on film 4519. Intertitle - Sit Down Manningham Lane, May 1976. Forster Square, June 1976 There is a sit down protest in the middle of a street, in Manningham Lane, with people wearing party hats and holding balloons. A placard states 'Ban the National Front'. The demonstration is a mixture of whites and Asians. Behind them is the Modeldrome shop and Carol's fish bar. There is a party atmosphere. A man is selling Big Flame with a picture of an African on the front. The police physically drag the protesters over to the side of the road, but they get up and resume the sit down protest. One of them is a John Lennon look alike with a striped blazer. Some of the protesters are put into police vans. A protester addresses the crowd through a loud hailer. Placards read, 'No more violence in Bradford', 'Ban the National Front Cavalcade on Sat 1st May', 'Manningham Defence Committee' and 'March against the National Front Sat. 2pm Salt Street'. The protesters gather outside a chemist shop, and again the sit down demonstration is shown with protesters being carried off. Two other cameramen can be seen filming the event. Protesters are being dragged away to police vans. More protesters are gathered in front of Thornton Engineering works. One of the cine cameramen reads a light meter. Police vans are lined up, and a couple of boys ride past on Raleigh Chopper bikes. The pavement is covered with leaflets. People are gathered on a patch of green near a chemist shop opposite a school on Green Lane. The film switches to the entrance of Oak Lane Park, where there are more protesters in costumes with balloons. The protesters are laughing and joking, and they appear to be in a party mood. Some are wearing boiler suits with 'NCB' (National Coal Board) written on the back on the back. They line up to form a demonstration holding life sized effigies of figures, which possibly include government ministers of the time: Roy Jenkins or Merlin Rees or Peter Shore. Some protesters perform street theatre. They are then shown at the sit down protest on Manningham Road, with ban the National Front banners. They march through the gates of a park (with a statue in the background). The person at the front is in a Teddy Bear costume. They carry a long banner declaring, 'Enforce the Race Relations Act and the ban National Front'. The demonstration makes its way through the centre of Bradford and the film comes to an end.