Belmont School, Harrow Weald
16mm film Black & White Silent 1950s 17:01
Summary: Amateur film recording pupils of Belmont School in Harrow Weald.
Title number: 345
LSA ID: LSA/440
Description: The film begins with exterior views of Belmont School on Hibbert Road in Harrow Weald, including its buildings and grounds. A view of a hard standing playground features schoolboys playing games during a break period. A shot from an upstairs window within the school looks down on schoolboys lined up formally in columns and rows on the playground. Inside the school building there are views of classroom activity in a woodwork lesson where some pupils are seen making stools. Out on the school field two teams of boys are engaged in a football match with many spectators watching from the side of the pitch. Some girls are also filmed engaged in physical exercise, performing gymnastics exercises on a lawn just outside school buildings. There follows some film from a school trip by bus, visiting Wales and the Welsh Marches (the bus is from Enterprise Coaches in Kenton). The trip takes in a range of location including a Hydro Electric Scheme (possibly Ffestiniog Power Station), a cattle market, a visit to a pig sty, a walk around the ruins of Dore Abbey in Herefordshire, a look at the ruins of a castle (possibly Longtown castle), and exploring the landscape of the Brecon Beacons. And Talybont Reservoir. The film concludes back at Belmont School with boys engaged in gymnastic and athletics exercises in the school ground and girls performing a formation dance routine.
Keywords: Schools
Locations: United Kingdom; England; London; Harrow
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I have a short video of the school just before it was knocked down but it so much nicer to see it "living". Great stuff.