This is a film of the Cass Family, in Selby, including the family at home, at Filey, weddings and the coronation celebrations in Selby, including the Youth Week Queen. The film begins with a small boy and girl playing with a small wheelbarrow in a back yard.  Then the boy drives around the front of the house in a peddle train engine. Now winter time, a woman and the small boy are rolling a large snowball in their garden.  In the summer, two women, possibly bridesmaids, arrive at Selby Abbey....

This is a film of the Cass Family, in Selby, including the family at home, at Filey, weddings and the coronation celebrations in Selby, including the Youth Week Queen. The film begins with a small boy and girl playing with a small wheelbarrow in a back yard.  Then the boy drives around the front of the house in a peddle train engine. Now winter time, a woman and the small boy are rolling a large snowball in their garden.  In the summer, two women, possibly bridesmaids, arrive at Selby Abbey.  They are followed by three young couples, all carrying bouquets, possibly a wedding.  A large group pose for a photograph in front of the Abbey doorway before walking off.  Two men walk with a small girl, and then two women are with two girls.  Then there is a procession through Selby, led by a horse and cart with children on it, with more children walking behind, followed by the Salvation Army Band.  A woman pushes a pram having what looks like twins, in front of a shop for ‘Woodheads Seed Ltd.’.  They pose for the camera with another boy, in front of a butchers shop, ( . . . Joy, number 63).  Then there is a row of cars, and a group walking along the seafront. Then back to another parade through the streets led by a Boys Brigade band and a Scouts band, which stand in front of a Hotel (possibly Londesborough).  A group of cubs give the cubs salute.  Some women arrive at a chapel in Selby for a wedding, followed by what might be the groom and best man, and other guests arriving by car.  The newlyweds emerge to a gathering of people, and the bride is presented with a horse shoe and a wooden spoon by a small boy.   They pose for photos, and then we see the wedding cake. A woman and three children sit on the grass verge of a road having a picnic.  This is followed by footage of the whole family on the beach at Filey.  Children paddle in the sea with their buckets, while four adults sit on a bench looking out to sea.  The family are next walking through a park, with four boys playing on a rocking horse.  They wander across a field, with Castle Hill, Huddersfield, in the distance.  Some of the children are next posing for the camera, before three older girls and a woman are cooking outdoors on an open fire in a back garden.  A large family group return to their parked cars.     There is another procession, with a float of boys and girls dressed as ‘cowboys and Indians’.  Then the Mayor leads the ‘Youth Week Queen’ procession across the school field.  A woman makes a speech and crowns the queen (possibly Hazel O'Driscoll, 1953).  The next section features a wedding, or possibly a double wedding, at Selby Abbey.  The newlyweds stand next to their wedding cake.  The Youth Week Queen comes out of a house and gets into a car, and then onto a float, or cart, which is pulled by a heavy horse, on which they ride through town, behind a fire engine, along with other floats and an army band.  They go past the central garage, Selby Electricity Showrooms and the Hippodrome.  A large group of children pose for the camera in the school playground.  They each go up to collect a Coronation mug.  A group of adults also pose for the camera, as children in fancy dress walk past, followed by some children racing. There is brief footage of another wedding, and the newlyweds are standing in the doorway of Selby Abbey.  Following this is footage of children’s races.  A boy walks through his back garden dressed as a cowboy, followed by a girl with a black doll, and the film comes to an end.