An amateur film produced by Doug and Marjorie Collender of canaling holiday on the Llangollen Canal in Wales. They are joined on this trip by two other families and they all work together to steer the barge along the canal and through a number of locks. The film also shows Marjorie Collender conducts interviews with those on the barge and the film ends with everyone performing a song. Credit: Dumar Films The barge ‘Wrexham’ travels along a Llangollen Canal, those onboard wave at the camera...

An amateur film produced by Doug and Marjorie Collender of canaling holiday on the Llangollen Canal in Wales. They are joined on this trip by two other families and they all work together to steer the barge along the canal and through a number of locks. The film also shows Marjorie Collender conducts interviews with those on the barge and the film ends with everyone performing a song. Credit: Dumar Films The barge ‘Wrexham’ travels along a Llangollen Canal, those onboard wave at the camera as it passes. Marjorie and Doug Collender sit on the barge alongside one of their daughters as it continues on its journey. A second man sits at the tiller as another barge passes in the opposite direction. The barge passes under a number of trees, the second man uses a film camera to film Marjorie and her daughter sitting on the roof of the barge chatting. A third couple now sit at the tiller as the barge passes a number of ducks, the children on board throw bread at them. The barge passes a field of cows and enters a tunnel. The light from the exit can be seen in the distance as the barge slowly makes its way towards it. The barge comes out of the tunnel and a man on the banks films them as they appear. A woman works to open a canal lock, she wipes her forehead as if sweating. Rain drips from the fingers of the man sitting at the tiller, inside the rest of the group sit chatting. The rain now stopped a number of the party sit at the bow of the barge waving as a third man steers from the tiller. Those onboard work to prevent their barge from hitting another. The children wave as the barge enters another lock. The barge is lowered and motors out back into the canal on the other side. Doug cooks on a barbeque set up on the towpath beside the barge as the third man takes a photograph of the party. Food and drinks are served, and everyone raises their glasses or cans to the camera. The barge approaches and crosses the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, again those onboard wave at the camera as they pass over the River Dee. At the stern of the barge Marjorie interviews the others on this holiday. She holds out a microphone to record their comments. She also speaks with some of the children. At home presumably sometime later Marjorie sits beside a Super 8mm winder and speaks to the camera. Back on the barge those onboard now wear costumes and have ‘blacked-up’, they begins to perform a song. One of the group plays a guitar. The film ends on the barge moored along a riverside. End title: The end