This amateur travelogue records the Rosslyn Smiths’ family holiday in Cornwall, including interesting footage of a livestock market in Helston. S. J. Rosslyn Smith was a member of Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA). Credit: Specially Commended Board of Amateur Cine World Title: Lazy Days Credit: Filmed by S. J. Rosslyn Smith Title: A Holiday in Cornwall Waves lap onto a beach where an outline shape of Cornwall is drawn into the sand. Title: August 1938....

This amateur travelogue records the Rosslyn Smiths’ family holiday in Cornwall, including interesting footage of a livestock market in Helston. S. J. Rosslyn Smith was a member of Newcastle & District Amateur Cinematographers Association (ACA). Credit: Specially Commended Board of Amateur Cine World Title: Lazy Days Credit: Filmed by S. J. Rosslyn Smith Title: A Holiday in Cornwall Waves lap onto a beach where an outline shape of Cornwall is drawn into the sand. Title: August 1938. Saturday morning. Our holiday commences. A car is parked down a rural road. Title: Breaking our journey, we spend an hour in an Elizabethan hamlet in the Cotswolds. Close-up of a road sign to “Broadway A46”. General views of the streets and cottages in Broadway, a Cotswold village in Worcestershire, including a thatched building. The filmmaker’s daughter helps a dog drink from a tap in the street and takes a drink herself. The girl walks the dog through a cottage garden. General views of a hotel in Broadway. A couple ride past a Broadway street on a tandem bike. Close-up of a road sign for Winchcombe and Cheltenham on the A46. More road signs point to Bath, Wells and Cheddar. General views of Cheddar Gorge, busy with tourists, the exterior of Gough’s Café and Snack Bar, and a sign for Gough’s Cave. A courtyard contains a rectangular concrete pool and fountains. General view of a road through Cheddar Gorge. Two cars race past. Close-up of a sign for Glastonbury on the A361. A rapid succession of road signs and the sign for ‘Storylands Farm’ follow. More shots of road signs that point to locations in Cornwall, the last one for Helston. A Hydrangea bush blooms outside a cottage. Title: Our destination at last. The filmmaker’s family are greeted by a family at their lodgings, including a happy toddler in a flowery frock. Title: Helston is a Cornish market town and the home of the ‘Flora Dance’. General view of the main high street crowded with parked cars, water being run down a gutter to clean it. Exterior shots of inns at Helston follow, including the Seven Stars and Blue Anchor. Cattle are crammed in pens for a livestock auction at Helston marketplace. Title: On Mondays, the market increases the town’s population. Close-up shots of sheep and cows in the pens in the old Cattle Market at the foot of Bowling Green Steps. Gentlemen farmers and auctioneers are gathering in the square. Brief shot of a cow in a pen. The auctioneer starts the sale, shouting from a hatch in the auctioneer’s hut, farmers standing in a crowd in front. A farmer milks a cow. A shorn sheep branded ‘R’ is herded into a pen. Some farmers stand and talk after the sale. Shots follow of piglets feeding from a sow, and pigs grazing beside the Helford River. Title: The fishing village of Porthleven is Helston’s seaport. General views of Porthleven pier, sea and harbour. A man rows a small boat with a single oar. Title: We spend each day at one of the many ‘coves’ which nestle in this rugged coastline. Title: Dollar Cove General view of a small cove. The words ‘Lazy Days’ have been crafted in sand on the beach. The Rosslyn Smith family have a picnic on the beach at Dollar Cove. A pet Pekinese dog rests in the shady entrance to a cave. Mr Rosslyn Smith undresses and heads to the sea in his one-piece swimsuit. The teenage daughter in her swimsuit and bathing cap dries herself down. She picks up a board and heads to the sea. Shots of a cave in the cliff, lichen and heather on the cliff tops. Title: Kynance Cove The filmmaker’s teenage daughter carries a model boat down a cliff top path, climbing down to Kynance Cove with a pet dog and her mother. Various general views of buildings at the cove. People are enjoying time on the beach, building sandcastles. After time on the beach, the teenage girl is making her way back across the cliffs. General view of the sea and rocky cliff top at Mount’s Bay. Title: Lying opposite to Marazian is the island home of Lord St. Levan, St Michael’s Mount. General views of St Michael’s Mount. Title: Smugglers. In 1767 the audacity of the smugglers knew no bounds. Their home ports were Penzance, Marazian, Newlyn. General view of the cliff tops fringed with palms and exotic plants. The filmmaker’s wife walks through a park looking at the hydrangea bushes. Close-ups of the plants. General views of Penzance harbour, fishing boats and a multitude of seagulls. Title: The mainstay of the fishermen was Pilchards and the chief market was Italy. This explains the old toast of the Methodist Cornishmen. Long life to the Pope, may he live to repent. And add just six months to the term of his Lent And tell all his vassals, from Rome to the Poles There’s nothing like pilchards for saving their souls! Fishermen work on their boats down the harbour, mending the nets. A fisherman coils up rope on the quayside. A woman in bonnet and pinafore feeds seagulls. Title: Newlyn is now the haunt of Artists and demolition fiends. A man sits by Newlyn beach painting a fishing boat named ‘Family’. A seagull sits on a huge metal buoy (or old landmine?) on the beach whilst the tide is out, Newlyn lighthouse in the background. A man smoking a pipe, wearing a naval hat, walks down a street and smiles to camera. Men sit at the entrance to the booking office for boat trips. General view of little harbour steps. Title: The only demolition we saw was on the Fish Quay Piles of plaice are being cut up at the fish quay. Close-up of a sign to Land’s End. Title: We expected to find this one of the loneliest spots in England. Land’s End is packed with cars. People crowd around a truck displaying ship models. General view of the ’First & Last House in England’. People wait for a go on a cliff top telescope. General views of sea crashing against the rocky shoreline at Land’s End. Title: “God keep us from rocks and shelving sands. And save us from the wrecker’s hands” is said to have been the prayer of sailors passing this notorious coast. General views of the coastline at Land’s End. Title: Only twenty years ago, wreckers were again at work. Here are the remains of their exploits. General view of a wrecked submarine. People clamber over the wreck. Close-up of a signpost to St Bunyan and Porthcurno. The filmmaker’s wife and daughter walk their dog down to a beautiful sandy cove. Title: In a secluded valley, on the river Helford, lies Porth Navas, renowned for oysters. General view of a thatched cottage. The filmmaker’s teenage daughter looks at a sign for ‘Duchy of Cornwall Oyster Farm’ in Porth Navas Creek. A man in dirty trousers poses at the entrance to a stable. The teenager picks up an empty oyster shell from the beach. Boats are moored at the River Helford. Title: Lizard Point General view of the Polbrean Hotel. Mr and Mrs Rosslyn Smith enjoy a cigarette on the hotel lawn. The family play with a dog on the hotel lawn. General view of colourful flowers at Lizard Point cliff tops. General view of the RNLI Duke of York lifeboat. Title: The Lizard life-boat holds a wonderful record of service. A tethered toy boat is dashed against rocks in the sea. The dog looks on from a rock. Title: Ahoy there! Boat ashore! Overhead shot of the Duke of York lifeboat launching into the sea. Various shots record the launch and return of the lifeboat during an exercise. Title: After a successful launch the life-boat is hauled ashore. A crowd watch as the life-boat is hauled back up to the lifeboat station. General view of a white-washed thatched house. A threshing machine is driven through a cornfield. The filmmaker’s family snack in a cornfield. The toddler and teenage daughter play with a very frisky cat. Mr Rosslyn Smith collects water from a well in a cottage yard. His daughter attempts to read a road map. Title: Among the most famous of all Cornish smugglers was the Carter family of ‘Prussia Cove’. Families enjoy sunbathing on the beach at Prussia Cove. The filmmaker’s daughter and son (?) float on lilos along with other holidaymakers. Title: One of the quaintest, and certainly one of the very loveliest in Cornwall, is Mullion Cove General views of aquamarine sea at Mullion Cove. The filmmaker’s wife reads a newspaper on a harbour wall. General views of blue skies, fishing boats bobbing on the sea, a fisherman spreading his net on the quayside, the harbour wall, caves on the beach. The Rosslyn Smith family are at Mullion Cove, the daughter splashing in the sea still dressed in her frock, her mother on a rock. People play in the surf and have seaweed fights on the beach. Portrait shot of a young woman in a folksy dress and hat selling Cornish teas. An open-topped sports car drives through a pretty village with a thatched cottage. Title: Au-revoir The family at the Rosslyn Smith family lodgings wave goodbye, including the toddler. ‘End’ is written in the sand on a beach. Credits: S. J. Rosslyn Smith (Photographer)