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If you would like to place an order Our VHS Pal Video’s are £12 including Post & Packing (UK, USA, CANADA) Our DVDs are £12 including Post & Packing (UK, USA, CANADA) Please send a cheque payable to “Outwood Community Video” to Mike Hooley 21 Coach Road, Outwood, Wakefield WF1 3EZ Do not forget to include your selection and your name and address. THE QUEST FOR COAL
The price of coal was always high, and no price was higher than that paid by the miners who lost their lives at Lofthouse Colliery. Now in 2001 a nature walk and woodland  stand where the pithead and the railway  sidings once throbbed with life.
This 40 minute video, produced by Outwood Community Video, includes a brief history of Lofthouse Colliery, underground  footage from the Yorkshire coalfield and news reports from the 1973 disaster. It also includes a short visit to The National Coal Mining Museum for England and first hand accounts from miners who worked at the pit. Finally it records the erection of a fitting memorial to the hard work, sense of pride and companionship once shared by a whole community.
Soundtrack
Working Man- courtesy of Rita MacNeil 'Abide with Me - Lofthouse Youth 2000 Brass Band My Lord What a Morning - Sharlston Male Voice Choir The Day thou Gavest Lord is Ended - The West Yorkshire Police Band also  Peer Gynt Morning   •   Jerusalem
A HALL OF MEMORIES
The Memorial Hall  has been a focal point in Outwood for over fifty years, built in 1952 to commemorate the fallen in the second world war 1939-45.
In the words of the Rev John Butterworth, ”They are our heros, they have achieved victory and they have achieved peace in Western Europe and other parts of the Western World for the last fifty years and more”.
This video tells the story of the hall from its inception in 1952 to the rededication service and
celebration in 2002
The narrator is Barrie Box
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It’s often said that the community spirit has all but gone from village life, not true! here at Kirkhamgate it lives on.
Each year leading up to Christmas voluteers young and old take part in this popular event,
keeping the spirit of Christmas alive in the communities surrounding the church.
This 40 minute video has it all, Sentiment, Laughter, Recitations, Carols, Dancing, Snow, Christmas Lights and a visit to Blackpool
The video concludes with a good old fashioned Singalong.
A VIDEO TO CHERISH
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THE FIRST 5 YEARS COMMUNITY SPIRIT
The aim of our club, is to produce a series of films that reflect our community both past and present, and we are on track with twelve videos to date, some of the films we produce are too short to produce a individual video.
This video is a compilation of such films.
1. The Mayor’s Parade      2. 100th Alverthorpe Carnival
3. The Queen’s Visit to Wakefield    4. Stanley Water Carnival
5. Outwood Past and Present     6. The Old Kitchen Range
7. The Wrenthorpe Kiln       8. A Tribute to Hilda West.
If you were there you will almost certainly be on this video.
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The title of this video says it All!, Thankfully there are still members of our local communities our there, that are willing to put in the effort for the benefit of us all.
This video is a tribute to them all, it features young and old and a bit of fun with Santa Clause?.
Filmed at Bevin Close Centre:
New Garden Opening  -  Jubilee Day Gala  -  Santa’s Grotto
and on location at:
Millstones  -  Spalding Flower Festival
Features Coach Road Estate Residents Association.
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Nowadays the true spirit of Christmas often seems lost in a mad rush of over-eating and drinking, expensive presents and endless television advertising.
“A YORKSHIRE CHRISTMAS” tells a different story: of fond memories of perhaps simpler days gone by, and of old traditions kept alive and well in our busy, modern world.
The Salvation Army Band plays and school children sing favourite carols.
There are nostalgic stories of Christmas Past spent with the family, and colourful scenes of more recent times. Archive photographs of snowy suburbs contrast with modern views of
local beauty spots transformed by winter.
“A YORKSHIRE CHRISTMAS” is a living Christmas card full of colour, warmth and music.
It's a seasonal feast for the eye and the ear.
PLAY TRAILER NEW NEW BUILT OF STRAW NEW In the children's tale of The Three Little Pigs, one lazy pig foolishly builds his house of straw instead of solid, reliable brick. Here in Wakefield we have rewritten the end of the classic fable by focusing on straw as a strong and durable building material Several years ago some members of the communities of Agbrigg & Belle Vue began to meet and give their views on what was needed to improve the area, this group had many allotment holders amongst its number. The group put in a successful funding bid to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the National Lottery via a WMDC initiative called 'Transforming Your Space'. Together with funding from the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB 6) enough money was made available for regeneration of local allotment sites. The Straw Bale building is one of the last elements of this project. It is designed to have low running costs as the straw used gives it 'super-insulation', it will have a living green sedum planted roof which minimises water run-off and some local people will have been involved in its construction by training 'on the job'. This low-tech building will be part of the allotment site and will hold a meeting and training room, a kitchen for 'cook and eat' sessions using allotment produce and a very interesting 'composting toilet'. Jean Richardson PLAY TRAILER
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