A home movie  by Austen McOlvin Laws of a family trip into the Northumberland countryside near to Hadrian’s Wall and at home in the Fenham area of Newcastle on the 24th May 1952. The film begins with a family crossing a footbridge, possibly over the river Irthing. At the front of the group a woman pushes a pushchair. A woman is sunbathing on a grassy bank, from out of some trees, a small child appears followed by a second woman. They sit down beside the sunbather. Along a rocky...

A home movie  by Austen McOlvin Laws of a family trip into the Northumberland countryside near to Hadrian’s Wall and at home in the Fenham area of Newcastle on the 24th May 1952. The film begins with a family crossing a footbridge, possibly over the river Irthing. At the front of the group a woman pushes a pushchair. A woman is sunbathing on a grassy bank, from out of some trees, a small child appears followed by a second woman. They sit down beside the sunbather. Along a rocky river's edge a man and young girl pick small objects from the water and places them into a jam-jar. Holding a netted pole the girl walks along the rocky shoreline. Back on the grassy bank the woman sunbathing sits up and begins to speak with the second woman who has a small child sitting on her knees. She wipes the child’s face. The film cuts to show the woman helping the child do roly-poly followed by the child drinking from a glass. Two small girls sit on rocks beside the river. They get up and begin to throw stones into the water. The film changes to the back garden of a house in Fenham, Newcastle. A young girl in pigtails and shorts comes down a set of stone steps onto the lawn. Two women and a younger girl follow her. On the lawn the family play together. An older couple arriving in the garden, the woman waving. The film ends with the two girls standing on the stone steps.