Leeds Of Yesterday A Recreation Of 18th And 19th Century Life At The Abbey House Museum In Kirkstall Footage

LEEDS OF YESTERDAY A recreation of 18th and 19th century life at the Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall.
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	Catalog #:	38288
	Clip Number:	38288-1
	Orginal Film:	CP 184
	Timecode:	01:37:31 - 01:39:55
	Location:	Kirkstall, Leeds - Yorkshire.
	Year Shot:	1958 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	Yes
	Headings:	FASHION: Historical (Pre 1900) HISTORICAL RECREATIONS: 18th Century (1700) LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, Yorkshire RECREATION: Museum
	Description:	LEEDS OF YESTERDAY A recreation of 18th and 19th century life at the Abbey House Museum in Kirkstall. Kirkstall, Leeds - Yorkshire. L/S of Abbey House Museum, a man walks past in the foreground. L/S of the ruins of 12th Century Kirkstall Abbey. A woman with a pram and another young woman walk past in the foreground. M/S of the Abbey. M/S of woman in yellow coat walking towards the door to an old building, she enters. M/S of one of two streets which have been recreated indoors to depict the 18th and 19th centuries. Women and men walk up and down the street in period costume. M/S of two men in period costume sitting outside a blacksmith's shop, one is wearing a top hat, he is played by Alderman H.S. Vick, Chairman of the Museums Committee. The second is a man wearing glasses and smoking a pipe, he is H. Cocerham, a museum attendant. The blacksmith is visible hammering inside the shop, he is Kenneth Wilson, museum lecturer to schools. C/U of the two men outside. M/S of the blacksmith smoking a pipe and working in his shop. C/U of the blacksmith pumping the bellows in the forge. C/U of the bellows. M/S of a weaver's cottage through the window. An old fashioned bicycle is propped up outside, and a woman walks past in the foreground. M/S of the inside of the weaver's cottage, an elderly lady sits down in a rocking chair in front of a spinning wheel. M/S of the lady weaving wool on the wheel. M/S of a lamp on the outside of a house. M/S of Mr Maynard Mitchell who is director of museums, checking accuracy in the clay pipe shop. M/S of Mr Mitchell taking a pipe from the shelf, C/U of him examining it. C/U of him replacing the pipe and C/U of the pipe shelf. M/S of wheelwright's cottage he is at work inside hammering part of a wheel. C/U of the wheel being fitted together. C/U of him hammering and wiping his brow. M/S of two ladies walking along the street past some shops. Men in period costume also pass along the street. C/U of the two ladies looking through the window of the violin maker's shop. M/S of the violin maker at work in his shop tuning the strings of the violin, he is played by Mr A.Wood, a museum attendant. There is a rack of violins behind him. C/U of exterior of street with signs saying 'Mason & Taylor Apothecaries' and 'Harewood Square' above an old fashioned lamp. M/S of the interior of the apothecaries shop with various bottles and a mortar and pestle.