Orphanage at Woking. Film 8329

Amateur home movie from 1928 to 1933.
The Southern railway servants' Orphanage at Woking. Founded in 1885 by the Railwaymen themselves.
Entirely supported by voluntary contributions.
The Orphanage Building. The grounds, works depot and staff residences.
Exterior frontage of main building. Pan left to lawn and grounds. Main entrance and steps seen from end of pergola covered avenue. Frontage of main building with tree in foreground. Pan right to lawn and grounds. Medium shot: slight pan right on works depot. General view of detached house in grounds beside driveway. Another similar house with bunting in foreground strung from stone finial of main gate pillar. Frontage of main building looking along gravel path from right hand side to entrance. pan left off building to shrubbery and trees in grounds.
Intertitle: 165 Children are being fed, clothed and educated at this orphanage.
Intertitle: 60 children from the S.E.C. and Brighton Sections have already been admitted.
Intertitle: Mr Farley's dog (Waterloo Bessie) who collects £500 each year for the orphanage.
Close shot Dark coloured retriever on a leash poses beside Mr Farley. The dog wears a special collar with a dozen medals hung on the front and a coin-collecting box on the back.
Intertitle: Assembling for the last church parade, January 8th, 1928, for consecration of the old banners which are now hung on the main staircase.
On gravel path outside main orphanage building the principal in wing collar, speech in hand, followed by wife walks past camera right; assembled guests wearing overcoats in background. Wide shot - in lane outside orphanage procession marches out of main gate from right to left in background an turns towards camera up and past left to right , Waterloo Bessie, flanked by two policemen, follows the parade leader. A brass band playing as they march are followed by a detachment from the fire brigade and the first of the large banners. Uniformed girls of the orphanage with their teachers precede the boys and the second large banner is followed by the teaching staff and a second group of bandsmen carrying their instruments. A group of invited guests walking behind a flag is followed by a military band wearing white sashes, not playing, marching behind a small banner. Local councillors wearing their chains of office are followed by some civilian musicians carrying their instruments. A small detachment of drummers and some cadets bringing up the rear. Reverse angle of above. As end of procession disappears down lane onlookers and public follow on behind.
Intertitle: The Laundry. 1800 pieces are dealt with each week.
Man and woman load up a rotary drum washing machine. She lets in the clutch of the overhead belt drive and sets a timer. Turning to another machine alongside, of slightly different design, she adds washing powder from a bucket. The first machine is stopped and the man assists her to remove the contents into a wooden trolley. Man rakes stoke holes of a vertical boiler hen adjusts some valve cocks on the adjoining pipe work.
Two women working a large mangle, also driven by overhead line shafting, one feeds clothes in from behind, the other takes them and folds them. Same to women ironing the pile of clothes produced by the mangle using electric irons.