This amateur film made by Mr L Hammell, a teacher at Norton High Street Junior School, showing the children and staff of the school exploring the landscape around the reservoir at Cow Green and the nearby waterfall Cauldron Snout in the North Pennines. The film opens with a view of a lake or reservoir in a moorland landscape. A group of schoolchildren get off a coach and follow their teacher along a footpath. General views of the lake or reservoir follow. The schoolchildren in their...

This amateur film made by Mr L Hammell, a teacher at Norton High Street Junior School, showing the children and staff of the school exploring the landscape around the reservoir at Cow Green and the nearby waterfall Cauldron Snout in the North Pennines. The film opens with a view of a lake or reservoir in a moorland landscape. A group of schoolchildren get off a coach and follow their teacher along a footpath. General views of the lake or reservoir follow. The schoolchildren in their weatherproof clothing gather near the lake edge and some run towards the camera. General views follow of the children. The film then shows the dam at Cow Green holding back the waters of the reservoir. General views follow of rough water or rapids flowing along a rocky stream, which drops steeply, almost as a waterfall, this is Cauldron Snout on the river Tees near the Cow Green reservoir. General views follow of the river and the landscape. Children gather on the rocks above the water to watch the rapids and clamber over rocks nearby. More general views follow of Cauldron Snout, the dam and the surrounding area and the film ends as the school party walk along a path.