This amateur film is a record of some of the celebrations that took place in Pontefract on V.E. Day, 1945. The film opens with children playing in a field before some schoolgirls perform a line dancing routine and boys try Morris dancing. Some older children play pat-a-cake whilst others wade in a shallow paddling pool. The next sequence shows houses bedecked with Union Jacks and the flags of Soviet Russia and the Netherlands. There are crowds in the streets and bunting hanging from the...

This amateur film is a record of some of the celebrations that took place in Pontefract on V.E. Day, 1945. The film opens with children playing in a field before some schoolgirls perform a line dancing routine and boys try Morris dancing. Some older children play pat-a-cake whilst others wade in a shallow paddling pool. The next sequence shows houses bedecked with Union Jacks and the flags of Soviet Russia and the Netherlands. There are crowds in the streets and bunting hanging from the shops, one of which is Keyzers department store, on Ropergate. One man dances on a wobbly table before falling off in spectacular fashion. A group of people help him to his feet, albeit groggily. A bonfire is lit before people are seen dancing the waltz in the town centre, and the film closes with street scenes where shops such as Benjamin Harral's, the Co-op, W. Clayton & Sons and Freeman Hardy & Willis can be seen.