More Info →Home Movie - Palmerston North, Feilding and Bunnythorpe scenes

Description

Leslie and Clarice Weston-Webb lived in Bunnythorpe with their three children, Roland (b.1932), Barbara (b. 1935) and Audrey (b.1937). Leslie Weston -Webb ran the Bunnythorpe Garage. After he died in 1942 the family moved to Palmerston North. Leslie was a keen movie maker and showed his movies to the All Saints Children's Home and the Willard Home..

Home movies include: an official visit; Parade with soldiers, bands, school boys, women in uniform including nurses, Returned Servicemen (?); Flooding, perhaps Manawatū River; train scenes; farming; visiting Esplanade Gardens; tents at Awapuni Racecourse; Foxton Beach, uniformed men; swimming; show/games day; horses; Palmerston North scenes; vehicles; Bunnythorpe Garage; Steam Traction Society, Tokomaru; bridges; " Home Guard Manoeuvres at Manawatu Heads 1941".

Length: 30 minutes. Colour. Silent.

Other Weston-Webb home movies held: 2021V_2013-21_035543 and 2021V_2013-21_035544

Identification

Object type

Video

Relation

Movie Collection

Date

1930 to 1945

Digitisation ID

2021V_2013-21_035545

Format

DVD (video disc)

Held In

"Coolstore"