Made by Dennis Leather, a member of Vixen Films and Stocksbridge Cine Club, this is the thrid part of a collection of films of events in Stocksbridge and the local area, including various garden parties and the opening of the new fire station. Title – Part three Bolsterstone Church Garden Party. Standing in the village square, outside a school, Councillor Albert Davis officially opens the Fair. Five girls dressed in brightly coloured nineteenth century costume are selling sandwiches, tea,...

Made by Dennis Leather, a member of Vixen Films and Stocksbridge Cine Club, this is the thrid part of a collection of films of events in Stocksbridge and the local area, including various garden parties and the opening of the new fire station. Title – Part three Bolsterstone Church Garden Party. Standing in the village square, outside a school, Councillor Albert Davis officially opens the Fair. Five girls dressed in brightly coloured nineteenth century costume are selling sandwiches, tea, and cakes.  There are rides for children and stalls selling plants and food and other items.  A group of young men stand around a couple on scooters drinking beer outside the Castle pub.  There are small triplets identically dressed. Intertitle – School Fair. A speech is made to start the Fair, followed by children playing games and a brass band playing in the school yard.  The adults sit at tables in the sunshine drinking tea. Intertitle – Deepcar Wesleyan Church Garden Party. People mull around the stalls at the Genefax Sports Club, with a cricket ground and bowls.  There is a children’s fancy dress competition, including Mrs Mopp, along with raffles and mini golf.  Then there is a parade through the town with the Queen, and following this, Rev. Hawkins introduces Laurie Sykes who opens the Party.  People, including ex-teacher Ronnie West, walk around the stalls, which are selling bric-a-brac.  Children watch a model train set at one stall.  The triplets make their appearance in blue and white striped outfits. Intertitle – Smithy Moor Barbeque. Children and adults mull around in the yard of the Playgroup while Derrick Mate sees to the barbeque.  There are stalls selling many different kinds of things and games trying to knock over tin cans.  A small boy sits eating a cake in his push chair. Intertitle –  Opening of the Stubbin Community Centre. A speech is being made in front of a crowd of people by Councillor Tommy Needle at the opening, performed by Mrs Hammond, wife of the Stocksbridge Works Chief Engineer Jim Hammond.  Inside there are stalls and lots of people. Intertitle – 1971 Oxley Close housing development completion. The new housing development is shown. Intertitle – Site for Horner Close Housing The site is shown being cleared and levelled ready for construction. Intertitle – Opening of the new Fire Station. A procession comes down a street led by a Highland Band of pipes and drums, and stops outside the new fire station.  Inside people sit and watch proceedings presided over by Council Chairman Tommy Needle.  The plaque is unveiled by County Councillor Colin Elliott showing that it was opened on 2nd October, 1971. Intertitle – New Road Hawthorne Avenue. An area of trees in a wood to the west of Garden Village is shown being cleared and topsoil is being brought in from Stocksbridge to make a new road joining Ridal Avenue with Hawthorn Avenue. Intertitle – 1972 Intertitle – End of the steel houses A row of houses is shown (the first council houses to be built in Deepcar, in 1923), with allotments in the front.  They are then shown being demolished to make way for Trueman Grove. Intertitle – The End of the Dairy. The dairy on Shay Horse lane is shown having been demolished to make way for extensions to Stocksbridge School. Intertitle – Horner Close nearing Completion. The new bungalows are shown having been built but without the landscaping having been completed, and with the steel factory seen behind them.  New residents are shown moving their furniture into one of them. Intertitle – Whitsuntide Procession. The procession, along Pot House Lane, is led by a large banner for Bolsterstone Sunday School, followed by banners for other Sunday schools, including West End Methodist and SHMSS.  They arrive at Bracken Moor sports field where they gather around for singing led by a woman conducting the brass band. Intertitle – 1973 Intertitle – Old Folks Outing Blackpool. The day trippers are on their coach on the road and then they disembark at the coach park outside the Gable Hotel in Blackpool, before walk off towards the town centre where they wander around the Golden Mile before returning to the coach for the trip back. Intertitle – Deepcar Church Garden Party. The procession, with the Deepcar Church Garden Party Queen, Catherine Wragg, arrives at the church where the vicar makes a speech and there is the crowning ceremony performed by Mrs Jack Webster, with the new Queen and retiring Queen, Gillian Revitt, making speeches. Intertitle – Bolsterstone Church Garden. Party People walk to the village centre where there are stalls selling flowers, among other things. There is a band playing, Afghan hounds, children with ice creams, a lost child who is soon reclaimed and three women also all eating ice creams.  The film finishes with the pinnacle of Bolsterstone Church being winched by a helicopter after toppling in the high winds.