LANGHOLM COMMON RIDING

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Title: LANGHOLM COMMON RIDING

Reference number: 10157

Date: 1959

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 5.35 mins

Description: Amateur footage of the area around Langholm in the Scottish Borders, including the bicentenary Common Riding celebrations.

Shotlist: woman in field, cows - dark shots Borders landscape, road with travellers' caravans passing, drawn by horses - gvs landscape, family walking - l/s Langholm below from monument on Whita Hill - monument - gvs horse-riders in hills - gvs bicentenary celebrations for Langholm Common Riding, 1759-1959, horse riders gathering in square - flag presented to Cornet - Cornet leading riders up Kirk Wynd out of town - riders in countryside - pipe band marching along main street followed by riders - dark shots river and bridge - sign “to Roman Wall, Brunton Turret" - gvs monument, bridge, town.