Film will take you back 100 years

4:20pm Monday 20th October 2008

SOUTH Cheshire on Film will roll at Crewe’s Lyceum Theatre next month.

The North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University brings the footage to the big screen on November 6 at 7.30pm.

The screening will feature material from the past 100 years of South Cheshire’s history and look at the industries of Crewe and life on the Cheshire plain.

Theatre-goers will be able to watch the Edwardian craftsmen at Crewe loco works put together their 5,000th engine in 1911 and see how their later counterparts turned out the Silver Shadow at the Rolls-Royce factory.

Summer on the Farm shows how rural Cheshire did its bit in feeding the wartime cities and in School life in Wartime, how the children of Elworth School coped with gas masks and air raid drills in 1942.

The colourful products of Macclesfield’s silk mills are seen as are the skills of British industry which allowed The Inquisitive Giant at Jodrell Bank to look out into space for over 50 years.

There’s also a glance at life on Crewe’s railway station in 1983.

The Archive’s service manager Marion Hewitt said: “This is a great opportunity for the people of South Cheshire to enjoy an evening with a difference, and take a look back at life in their part of the county in the past century.”

North West Vision’s and Media’s Alice Morrison said: “The North West Film Archive is one of our region's real gems and North West Vision are proud to support South Cheshire on Film, enabling local people to access a piece of their region's past.”

The evening’s show will be presented by the Archive’s Collections Assistant Geoff Senior.