This is a film made by the Skidby Preservation and Improvement Society showing aspects of village life, including the village fair. The film begins with the Half Moon pub and then several residents of the village out and about.  Various parts of the village are shown, including the village shop.  Three girls walk along a road, with two holding a ‘wedding dress’ worn by the other as if they were bridesmaids.  A group of children sit on the grass as newlyweds emerge from the church.  There is...

This is a film made by the Skidby Preservation and Improvement Society showing aspects of village life, including the village fair. The film begins with the Half Moon pub and then several residents of the village out and about.  Various parts of the village are shown, including the village shop.  Three girls walk along a road, with two holding a ‘wedding dress’ worn by the other as if they were bridesmaids.  A group of children sit on the grass as newlyweds emerge from the church.  There is a road sign for Church Rise in front of Skidby Methodist Church.  Two clergymen stand at the door of the church to greet parishioners as they leave.  This is followed by views over the village looking towards the windmill and a panorama view of the surrounding area taken from the church tower.  A dark blue bus passes by underneath, as well as several cars.  Several clergymen then walk into the churchyard and through the gravestones in a ceremony, each reading from a sheet.  Three lay people who have accompanied them sign a document. The film switches to a family loading their car for a holiday, with a boy putting a football into the boot.  A girl holds up four yogurts for the journey. Next there is a winter scene, with a snow covered village, with thick snow on the roads and around the houses.  It then returns to summer, showing a road sign for Skidby and a car passing under a viaduct.  Farmers are bailing hay in a field.  Then the film switches to a field fire at night time.  It then switches again to a school hall where some women are preparing a stall with garments displayed on it, and with a banner above it for Guy Fawkes Night.  A woman receives a cup, to applause, which she places on the stall, next to some chocolates.  Skidby is awarded third prize in the Best Kept Villages competition at Bishop Burton.  This is followed by children doing a maypole dance on the green.  A group of villagers board a coach, filmed also once on board.  A couple of steam traction engines, belonging to L C Byass and Sons of Little Weighton pass through the village.  They are followed by a Salvation Army band heading a procession.  At the village fair there are stalls and children on boat swings.  People sit at tables, and play games.  An Asian woman has a go at a game requiring a metal loop to be passed over a bar without touching it. The mayor wanders around as people sit on the grass eating ice cream.  One table is selling toffee apples.  The film ends showing a very yellow and green sunset.