LANGHOLM COMMON RIDING
Full length video
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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.