This is a film of various events, including three weddings, the Harden Moss Sheep Dog Trials and Fell Run, and the Tinker family on a holiday tour of Gloucestershire. The film begins with a small girl with a group of wedding guests as the newlyweds, Peter Secombe (Colin Tinker’s cousin) and June, stand in front of Holmbridge Church.  The guests pose in a line for the camera.  The guests are then seated at tables at the reception. The newlyweds take their seats.  Afterwards the guests take to...

This is a film of various events, including three weddings, the Harden Moss Sheep Dog Trials and Fell Run, and the Tinker family on a holiday tour of Gloucestershire. The film begins with a small girl with a group of wedding guests as the newlyweds, Peter Secombe (Colin Tinker’s cousin) and June, stand in front of Holmbridge Church.  The guests pose in a line for the camera.  The guests are then seated at tables at the reception. The newlyweds take their seats.  Afterwards the guests take to the dance floor. The film switches to another wedding, of Esther Tinker ((Colin Tinker’s sister) and David Moss at Batsford Park Church, on Lord Dulverton’s Estate, Moreton-on March, Gloucestershire, again with the guests outside, and the bride talking to the vicar, before driving off with her husband.  The film switches again to children clearing a path in deep snow and walking along the road in front of their house.  There is a beautiful sunrise over Holme Valley looking towards Sheffield, followed by a short excerpt from a film released by the Daily Express, ‘Apollo 10 Moon Conquest’.  Then bridesmaids arrive for another wedding, of Wendy Clayton, at which Colin’s eldest daughter, Gwen, was a bridesmaid.   The newlyweds pose for photos, while the guests mill around and more photos are taken. Then a large steel 1500 gallon heating oil tank is shown being manoeuvred into place at Colin Tinker’s house, before switching to the Harden Moss Sheep Dog Trials, and the Fell Race around old Holmfirth Horse Track at Sands Beds (later the Huntsman Inn and Hotel).  The winners receive their medals.  Elsewhere logs are being loaded onto a truck, and then onto Birdland at Bourton-on the-Water, with penguins, owls, flamingos and parrots.  Back home a man is painting the outside of the house of Brian and David Tinker in Reading, while three women watch, two on a swing.  There are children playing and another man with a cine camera.  One of the women goes into the house and comes out with a camera, and people take photographs. The film switches again to an Organ and Steam Rally at Dawn, near Moreton-in-March, Gloucestershire, with traction engines and a Wurlitzer, dancing and children’s rides.  There is a parade of marionettes around the fairground. This is followed by another colourful sunset, and a frosty landscape with new-born lambs.  Then back to Harden Moss Sheep Dog Trials, with people riding on horse drawn carts in historical costume in a contest having to go round a course.  There is family get together in a garden, and then back to Birdland and the old water wheel at Upper Slaughter, near Cheltenham.  Some children sit by a ford as a car goes over and two horses stop to drink.  There is some film as they travel along a canal on a pleasure boat, Britannia.  Then a vintage car stands on display in a street.  They pass through a lock and continue their boat journey.  They stop to tour Stratford-on-Avon, with Joan Morrelli, and the film comes to an end.