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Title: KIRKINTILLOCH 1946

Reference number: 1069

Date: 1946

Director: [filmed by William S. Manson]

Sound: silent

Original format: std. 8mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 11.36 mins

Description: The streets of Kirkintilloch, a boat yard on the Forth and Clyde Canal, the Black Bull cinema and Peel Park are all featured in this amateur film.

Shotlist: No credits. Approach from the West. Shots at Kirkintilloch Cross of old Post Office and Barony Chambers, Regent Gardens, plaque (Watson) on wall of Alexanders Stores, shots of Town Hall. In the Cowgate. Shots of the exterior of the parish church, bridge keeper's house. Hays' boat repair yard on the Forth and Clyde Canal with one puffer on the slipway and one in the water. Exterior pan along St Ninian's R C school building. On the canal. Grab dredger at work, watched by small boys. Lenzie Road. Shots of Woodhead Park entrance. Kirkintilloch continues to grow. Shots of the construction of council housing, probably at Hillhead. Shots of prefabs. In Woodhead Park. General views of park, paddling pond, band concert in bandstand. Industry Street. Shots looking to the east. Auld Aisle. Shot of the belfry with Auld Aisle cemetery in the background. Shot of people on "Spider Bridge". Waterside. View of bridge and old mill dam. View across to houses on Bankhead Road. Old St Ninian's Bridge at Oxgang. Bridgend Bridge. Aluminium Avenue. Shots of prefabs at Hillhead. Recrossing the Canal. Sailing dinghy by canal bank. Steam locomotive (Gresley 262 tank engine) pulls train northwards across bridge at Eastside. Shots of the Council Chambers, exterior of the Black Bull cinema from the foot of the hill. Peel Park. Moat of mediaeval castle. Exterior of William Patrick Library. War memorial gates in Peel Park. The End (11.36)