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Original 8mm amateur film shot by Michael Green. Tramway Extravaganza shot in Crich Tramway village in August 1970; LMS No.6441 is filmed at Steamtown Carnforth; Blackpool tram; St Etienne tramway in France in August 1971; Ravenglass and Eskdale railway; locomotive- River Mite; locomotive- Fred (Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway); steamer- Ben My Chree in Liverpool sailing to Douglas, Isle of Man. Another vessel (Irini) is filmed, pulled by two tugboats; Manchester canal, taken on-board a boat, with a shot of a swing bridge (either Barton road or Trafford road swing bridge); Ffestiniog railway (likely Porthmadog station); shot with a locomotive too far away to identify, supposed to be Evening Star at Keighley in April 1974 according the filmmaker’s notes; footage of Black Five Class No.45212 at Haworth and Bagnall Class No.2682 Princess locomotive on Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway; locomotive- River Irt; Two men are filmed manually operating the turntable with River Mite; double-decker trams in Pleasure Beach, Blackpool; train on the electric lines entering the Ryde tunnel on the Isle of Wight; Blanes station (Spain) and a white and green electric RENFE train arriving at the station; Arenys DelMar station and the building and platform of Tordera station; diesel electric train going to Mallaig (Scotland) is filmed arriving at Arisaig station; Glenfinnan viaduct; yellow and green signal box of Glenfinnan; Keighley and Worth Valley Railway; locomotive 8431 (or 48431); trams and trailers by the seaside in Dubrovnik and Cavtat in Croatia; view of Oakworth station and a black London Transport locomotive passing; a level crossing managed manually by two persons; L89, emerging out of the Mytholmes tunnel; Heatherfield Light Railway in 1981.

8mm Footage 'Great Britain, France, Spain and Croatia and of the Heatherfield Light Railway'

1970-1981
8 original 8mm colour film footage of railways and tramways made by the amateur filmmaker Michael Green between 1960-1985, at various locations in the United Kingdom and across Europe. The footage includes images of preserved railways, last days of trams in Sheffield, Glasgow, Blackpool, transports on the Isle of Man, trams and railways in the UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Croatia

Original 8mm amateur films of Railways and Tramways

1960-1985
Keystone Press Agency photograph titled 'The King at Sibenik'. Caption on back reads: The King leaving the yacht Nahlin, to confer with Jugoslavian officials at Sibenik on the programme of his cruise.

King Edward III on steam yacht Nahlin in Sibenik, Coratia

12 August 1936