Memory Lane Feb 16th 2016.
AND what on earth is going on here, in this clip from a fragment of early cinematograph film?
A strange contraption lies in a suburban street while a spontaneous group of neighbours look on in amusement.
This could be a scene from a homely film produced by entrepreneur Fred Simpson, who opened the Oxford Hall Picture House up Oakworth Road in 1911 – after his two fully-insured furniture and drapery emporiums had mysteriously burned out.
He made films in the Oakworth Road and Lund Park area, using local residents.
My late father remembered them, describing them dismissively as “folk running round the back streets with dustbin lids”!
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