This film by Kenneth Raynor documents parts of Scarborough during a trip he took in 1943, focusing particularly on Peasholm Park and the Scarborough beach. Title - A reverie on a year. 31 December 1943. The film opens with a couple sitting on a sofa and a bespectacled man holds a reel of film. Title – “Do you remember at Scarborough.” A brief shot of a film projector is shown. Title – Scarborough 1943. This sequence begins with a shot of Scarborough bay, before a couple stand by the sea....

This film by Kenneth Raynor documents parts of Scarborough during a trip he took in 1943, focusing particularly on Peasholm Park and the Scarborough beach. Title - A reverie on a year. 31 December 1943. The film opens with a couple sitting on a sofa and a bespectacled man holds a reel of film. Title – “Do you remember at Scarborough.” A brief shot of a film projector is shown. Title – Scarborough 1943. This sequence begins with a shot of Scarborough bay, before a couple stand by the sea. Title – In Peasholme [sic] park. The absorbed young-and old at the well filled toy boating-pool. Children stand round pool that has many model boats sailing through the water, and the filmmaker captures many shots of the children enjoying the day. A man smoking a pipe then adjusts the sail of boat, and this is followed by some little children paddling in the pool. Title – In Peasholme park. The bored beauty of a new world in 1963? A young girl in a white dress sits with her father on a bench. Title – In Peasholme park. Will the Elysium of the future contain shrews?? A little girl sits by the pool in her bathing costume. Title – Northstead manor gardens. Tennis courts for four 2/0. Men in shirts and trouser and women in summer dresses play tennis. Title – The North Sea. The miracle known as TIDE… Waves buffet a rocky shoreline. Title – Peasholme park. Boating on the lake – an attractive idea… On a lake, the filmmaker captures many rowing and canoes boats swarming across the calm waters. There are then shots of people watching from the banks.  Following this there is a brief interlude which shows a man and a woman taking shots with golf clubs, before a woman walks along a street and enters a house. Title – Northstead manor gardens; paddle-boats for hire. From a raised vantage point, there are shots of a lake filled with boats, and the filmmaker also shows some close ups of the people in the boats. A couple walk along a winding path that looks over the sea. A woman in patterned skirt then walks in front of the camera to look out over the sea. Then there is a shot of an old ruin on a cliff top and a woman looking down on a drained outdoor pool. The sequence closes with many views of the ocean, and a young girl who looks at a caged Parrot. Title - The Italian gardens. Splashed with colour… but not here… This sequence captures the Italian gardens:  ornate statues, water lilies in a pond and the magnificent horticulture of the garden. There are then shots of some young girls sitting on stone steps as the couple from the start of the film pass by. Title – The North-Sea. The urge to let nature soother and caress in the sea – friend and enemy. Swimmers in costumes and bathing caps stand in the sea on Scarborough beach. Then there are many shots of children playing around the water. The action returns to Peasholm Park, where, more boats are captured around the lake, and a man in a white hat chalks times on a board. The couple from the beginning then walk down a path surrounded by dense foliage and there are brief shots of them rowing a boat. Back on the shore front, the sea has become more rough and a young girls stands on the edge watching the waves. Next, there are further shots of people rowing boats on the lake, and some more shots by the sea side, which show people venturing into the sea in old fashioned swimming costumes. Title – Night-fall on the sea and goodbye until… This penultimate sequence shows shots on a train; a man sticks his head out the window and a couple sit in their seats smiling at the camera. Title – “-and so we grow old.” The final shot shows the bespectacled man turning off a lamp in their sitting room.