An amateur film produced by Frederic Carl Birkbeck predominantly made in and about Lunedale which today is part of Southern Teesdale in County Durham, but in 1932 when the film was made was part of North Yorkshire. The film begins three young men taking a Sunday hike to the summit of Mickle Fell. They return to the inn and farmhouse at Grains O’Beck where they pose with two women who presumably live and work there. The film also features construction or repair work taking place on Rennygill...

An amateur film produced by Frederic Carl Birkbeck predominantly made in and about Lunedale which today is part of Southern Teesdale in County Durham, but in 1932 when the film was made was part of North Yorkshire. The film begins three young men taking a Sunday hike to the summit of Mickle Fell. They return to the inn and farmhouse at Grains O’Beck where they pose with two women who presumably live and work there. The film also features construction or repair work taking place on Rennygill Bridge, a small bridge crossing the beck known as Rennygill Sike. The film features a number of local characters including several men carrying shotguns, an older man who hunts rabbits with ferrets and another who goes fishing in the Long Grain river. A young woman also appears in the film posing alongside one of the men. Outside Lunedale the film does feature a trip to Holy Island or Lindisfarne in Northumberland, with the film ending on four men playing leap-frog in a field near to South Park in Darlington. Title: A Ramble to Mickle Fell Title: Yorkshire’s Highest Mountain 2591ft Title: February 7th 1932 A map showing the route of the hike from Grains O’Beck to the summit of Mickle Fell. Title: On the Ridge 2210ft Three young men hike along a moorland ridge. Title: Still Going Strong Two of them continue the hike while the third scrambles up a steep incline posing for the camera at the top. The three men continue their hike. Title: At Last! The Summit 2591ft The three of them approach a large cairn on the summit and proceed to scramble to it top where they pose for the camera. Next to the cairn two of them change jumpers or sweaters while the third eats an apple. Title: Who Said Rock Climbers? One of the men appears to be climbing up a steep incline or wall, he smiles at the camera. Title: The Descent From the summit two of the group look out across the landscape following the route down the fell. Title: What We All Like. Peat Hags The three men make their way across rough peaty ground, one of them jumping down into a ditch which he proceeds to follow. Two of them run up the side of a steep and muddy ditch, the three of them continue their hike. Title: Above the Fish Pond One of the men walks beside Ash Force, a small waterfall, changes to show the Arngill Beck meandering down the hillside. Two of the men looks back towards Arngill Force in the near distance and the route back towards the summit of Mickle Fell. The men continue their walk. The route map again showing the fishpond, known today as Fish Lake, at 1960ft. Two of the men follow a path heading towards the lake following the Arngill Beck, one of them turns and wave back. Title: By the Fish Pond The men follow a path beside the lake changes to a view back across the water. Title: Back to our Base. Grains O’Beck The three of them walk across an open field towards a drystone wall and the inn and farm at Grains O’Beck just beyond it with the River Lune flowing past nearby. The men run down a hill past the camera changing to them posing with two women beside the farmhouse at Grains O’Beck. Title: - And so for Home A phantom car or train journey passing a lake and more open moorland changes to show another lake or pond. Title: Grains O’Beck Smoke comes from a chimney at the inn and farm at Grains O’Beck, beyond it a small stone bridge crossing the River Lune. A large barn built near the farmhouse, in the fields beyond cattle grazing. Title: Lunedale The River Lune passing through Lunedale. Beside it a drystone wall follows the river, behind it fields and in the near distance a stone building or barn. Title: and Mickle Fell From an elevated position the camera pans across a valley with fields, open ground and a small farm towards the summit of Mickle Fell in the distance. Title: Lunedale From an elevated position the River Lune meandering through Lunedale with a road nearby running parallel. Title: Rennygill Bridge after Cloudburst Construction work taking place on a small bridge over the currently dry Rennygill Sike with rubble and timber piled nearby along with a wheelbarrow. Title: From Above Looking down a concrete slipway where the water will eventually flow while above wooden scaffolding holding up construction work on the bridge itself over the road above. Title: The Debris A man in a flat cap clambers over boulders and rocks near the base of bridge, just beyond it the Lune Head Beck flowing past. Title: From Above From the bridge the boulders and debris along the banks of the Lune Head Beck. Tile: The New Bridge Engraved in one of the flagstones on the new bridge ‘Rennygill Bridge’, the engraving on a second stone reads ‘Rebuild 1930 N.R.Y.C.C.’. Title: Views of the New Bridge from Various Angles The waters of the now flowing Rennygill Sike passes under the new Rennygill Bridge changes to the shadow of a man standing on the concrete underpass of the bridge before the water begins to flow. On the other side of the bridge water flowing down over a steep wear changes to the same position but without the water flowing. Title: Incidents at Grains O’Beck In the near distance the inn and farm at Grains O’Beck with a road passing beside it. Title: Grains O’Beck Wild Life A man holds a Lapwing chick in his hands before releasing it. The bird scurries around on the ground in front of him. A man carrying a shotgun under his arm walks past through a valley. Beside a fence he loads the gun with shells before pointing upwards and pretending to fire it, he smiles at the camera. Title: The Long Grain The man with the shotgun is joined by a second man, they stand beside a barbed wire fence with the Long Grain river flowing past behind it. Holding a fishing rod, the second man catches a small fish from the Long Grain. As he rebaits his line he chats with the person behind the camera. Title: Here’s a Fish The fisherman casts his line into the Long Grain waiting on a fish to bite, a second fisherman casts his line into the water. The film changes to three chicks run about on a piece of paper. A young couple walking arm in arm pose in front of the camera with a smile. They are followed by two young men walking arm in arm, one of them carrying a shotgun under his arm. The couple walk up to the camera, the man appears to be speaking with the person behind the camera. The man with the shotgun walks across a field with the gun out ready to take aim, he walks directly into the camera with both barrels pointing down the lens. Outside the farmhouse at Grains O’Beck a man walks over and stands with a couple, all three walk past the house before posing for the camera beside a wall. The face of the young woman smiling and laughing, beside a window one of the men smiles with the woman standing next to him. The second man smiles at the camera before walking past with his arms around the woman’s waist. The two women seen earlier in the film pose in front of the farmhouses front door. Title: Holy Island Castle & At low-tide a small fishing boat stranded on the sand, in the background Lindisfarne Castle. A man walks along a beach with the castle in the distance, he turns at looks back at the camera as he walks. Title: The Priory The ruins of Lindisfarne Priory. Title: A Beautiful Arch The remains of the sandstone archways that once contained a stained-glass window. In a nearby field Highland Cattle grazing with one animal staring at the camera. Title: Rabbit Shooting In a field an old man with his dog, in his hands he holds two white ferrets which he lets loose in a rabbit warren. A rabbit races across the field changes to the man holding a dead one in his hand before dropping a ferret down another hole. He walks towards camera holding a bag changes to him walking towards camera carrying a shotgun under his arm. On the other side of a Hawthorn fence a young man holding a shotgun changes to a second young man walking toward camera now holding the gun. The old man comes under the fence carrying one of his ferrets. Title: The Ferret The man checks over his ferret, a piece of string is tired around one of the animals legs. Title: South Park Four men walk through South Park in Darlington, one of them is walking with a dog another a stick. Outside the park they walk beside a road before playing leap-frog in a nearby field.