Can you help us?

The Maypole Trust Committee and Barwick-in-Elmet Historical Society would very much like to recover  a lost BBC film.

Here is an extract from the Society’s website:-

“The above photograph shows the preparation of a new maypole for the 1954 raising being filmed by the BBC. We believe that it was for a BBC North production. We have checked with the BBC. Unfortunately, the BBC no longer has any record of the occasion. Does anyone have a copy of the original film or does anyone have any idea who might have a copy?”

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If you might be able to help us, please get in touch using the contact form. If we are able to locate the film, we would like to digitise it and make it available on this website.