Part of the Cass Collection, this film features a number of events in Selby, including severe flooding, as well as the family at home and on holiday in Scarborough.  The film begins with four women, a man and a dog in a back garden.  They are joined by a man in army uniform, who is filmed in close up.  He shakes hands and chats with another man in a black uniform.  Two women emerge from the house, one holding a small child, who is then being attended to and encouraged to walk by a group of...

Part of the Cass Collection, this film features a number of events in Selby, including severe flooding, as well as the family at home and on holiday in Scarborough.  The film begins with four women, a man and a dog in a back garden.  They are joined by a man in army uniform, who is filmed in close up.  He shakes hands and chats with another man in a black uniform.  Two women emerge from the house, one holding a small child, who is then being attended to and encouraged to walk by a group of women.  The child is given a bath in a metal tub.  Two women and a man are out walking on a country road, they sit on a grass verge, with one holding the child near a ruin.  They continue walking, pushing a pram.  The child sits on the mother’s knee, with a girl sitting beside her.  The child is then taken into a church for christening, along with another child.  The proud parents and grandparents pose for the camera with the children.  A child sits in a pram with her mother looking on, and then her mother is helping the child walk around a park.  The child is then playing on some grass before having a paddle by the sea with her mother and other holidaymakers.  The mother, and several others, go out in a boating lake and are then walking up a hill overlooking Scarborough Bay before being back on the beach making sand castles and knocking them down.  Again the child goes for a paddle in the sea with her mother.  The child is next seen walking down a street with four women and a man, before being again back on the beach, covered in sand.  The child then has a donkey ride, as does a much older girl.               Back home the family group are sitting in the back garden where they eat tubs of ice cream.  Several children are sitting using a toy tea set.  One small girl is on a rocking swan.  Some other children play with the dog.  Two women and three children walk through a park, with a clock tower in the distance.  They have some refreshment at the park café.  They are then at a fair on the dodgems and other rides. There is severe flooding in Selby.  Fields seem to have become lakes, and water has reached high up the sides of the houses.  The street outside the family home is flooded, and people are given milk from an urn delivered on a rowing boat.  Water gushes from the river over the fields.  After the floods are over, a boy comes out of his house with a small cup, and there is a cake for a 21st birthday, which is cut by the young woman whose birthday it is.  Outside a baby lies in a pram, which is then pushed along by a woman and a boy.  They go for a walk in a park or zoo with another older woman.  There is a polar bear and a miniature railway, and the film comes to an end.