Amateur filmmaker Tom Brown (Senior) records a 1935 holiday with family and friends at locations in County Antrim and County Down, Northern Ireland, in this black and white home movie compilation. Places visited include Antrim, Lough Neagh, Giants Causeway, Portstewart and Belfast. The film includes many entertaining scenes with a focus on the friends having fun and playing practical jokes. Title: A Tour In Northern Ireland August 1935 Title: The Gang Arrives At Antrim Mabel Brown and a...

Amateur filmmaker Tom Brown (Senior) records a 1935 holiday with family and friends at locations in County Antrim and County Down, Northern Ireland, in this black and white home movie compilation. Places visited include Antrim, Lough Neagh, Giants Causeway, Portstewart and Belfast. The film includes many entertaining scenes with a focus on the friends having fun and playing practical jokes. Title: A Tour In Northern Ireland August 1935 Title: The Gang Arrives At Antrim Mabel Brown and a group of friends, including Herbert and Agnes Punch, get off their tour bus. Title: Our Hotel The gang of friends pose outside Murphy’s Bar at the Massereene Arms Hotel, High Street, Antrim. Title: Breakfast Parade The group of friends walk across the road from the Massereene Arms Hotel to the breakfast lounge. Title: The Lounge At Back of Hotel There is a general view of the breakfast lounge built out over the river on stilts. Title: A Walk To Lough Neagh Mabel and friends set off on a walk to the largest lake in Britain, Lough Neagh. Title: Boating Mabel and friends get into rowing boats on the banks of a tributary river near the lake. Title: On The Six Mile Water The next scenes record the friends rowing along the river, shot from another boat. There are shots of friends waving at the camera, the crew inside the boat, and looking towards the open expanse of water of Lough Neagh. There are many shots of other boats passing by, with people waving at camera. A woman in one boat takes a puff of a cigarette. The group of friends joke around in the boats as they row past. As they get off the rowing boats, they are still laughing and clowning around. Title: A Ride Back By Jaunting-Car Some of the friends are helped onto a jaunting car, or jaunty car, which is a traditional Irish light, horse-drawn, two-wheeled open vehicle with seats placed lengthwise. Title: Antrim Castle A general view shows Antrim Castle, also known as Masserene Castle, on the bank of the river running parallel to Lough Neagh. Title: In The Castle Grounds Mabel and the group of friends walk around the castle gardens. The women talk and enjoy a cigarette break. Title: The Wishing Bridge General view of people sightseeing on the Wishing Bridge. Title: The Wishing Seat Mabel and friends try out the Wishing Chair at the Giants Causeway, Antrim, which is part of the basalt column rock structures. Title: Portstewart. An Al Fresco Diversion Two of Mabel and Tom Brown’s male friends perform a jig on a street at Portstewart, near the Giants Causeway. Title: Benny As tourists watch through the windows of the tour bus, one of the Browns’ male friends plays the ukulele, whilst a larger friend looks at the coins that have been dropped in his hat. One of the women from the group runs back in shot and cheekily takes a coin from the hat. Two men now perform a comic waltz together up the road, whilst the other continues to play the ukulele. Title: The Post Card Stall The group of friends browse the postcards stall. Title: The Giants Causeway Many tourists are walking upon the hexagonal stone columns of the Giants Causeway, Antrim, located by the sea. The Brown’s group of friends sit on the rocks and wave. There are various shots of them on the Causeway and pretending to move a giant granite boulder. Title: Mountaineers Mabel and friends climb amongst the stones. The film cuts to a shot of the stonework motto and coat of arms of the Slieve Donard Hotel in Down. General view of the hotel grounds and of the exterior of the grand Victorian building of the hotel. Title: Mountains of Mourne General view of the Mourne Mountains in County Down. Title: Jack and Jill On The Mat This sequence shows the group of friends sliding down an extremely steep grass bank, falling over, and generally joking around and getting dirty. Title: The Revolving Summer House The friends sit on the steps of an unusual revolving summerhouse, laughing and joking. Title: Back Again They now revolve in the opposite direction. Title: The March Past The group of friends march out of the grounds of the grand Slieve Donard Hotel in an orderly fashion. Title: Norah Has A Donkey Ride The Browns’ friend Norah gets onto a donkey and is led around. She then hops off the donkey and performs a bow. Everyone smiles at her. A woman in a swimsuit slides into a pool. Title: Visit To Shane’s Castle The friends are amongst a crowd of people walking along a path in the grounds of Shane’s Castle on the shores of Lough Neagh. One of the men is wearing a comic hat. Title: In The Castle Grounds The group of friends are in the grounds of Shane’s Castle with many other people. Mabel Brown has a cigarette. There is a sequence of portrait shots of the three women in the group. Title: City Hall. Belfast General view of the Belfast City Hall and a busy street. The group of friends walk past the camera. The film closes with views of the Irish Sea from the ship back to England. [Note: This section is overexposed.] .