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Summary One in a large collection of family films portraying the Cooper family of Leeds. This particular film comprises images of family orientation during the year 1964 and the family are shown at their home (Rondor) in Leeds.
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One in a large collection of family films portraying the Cooper family of Leeds. This particular film comprises images of family orientation during the year 1964 and the family are shown at their home (Rondor) in Leeds.
Gran Thomas (Dora's mum) sits on a deckchair in the back garden of Rondor. There is a canopy over her head shading her from the sun.
Dora sits on a sun lounger next to the deckchair. She offers a tupperware box full of fairy cakes to her mother which her mother refuses....
One in a large collection of family films portraying the Cooper family of Leeds. This particular film comprises images of family orientation during the year 1964 and the family are shown at their home (Rondor) in Leeds.
Gran Thomas (Dora's mum) sits on a deckchair in the back garden of Rondor. There is a canopy over her head shading her from the sun.
Dora sits on a sun lounger next to the deckchair. She offers a tupperware box full of fairy cakes to her mother which her mother refuses. She then offers one to Jill (her daughter) who sits next to her on another sun lounger. Jill is reading a book, she takes a cake and begins eating it.
Dora pours a cup of tea using a silver teapot. She hands the cup to Jill, who begins to drink it.
Dora prunes some flowers planted in a small, white, wooden wheelbarrow . Shots of the back garden and the outhouse.
Minnie and Norman Ashworth look at an ornamental crane and gnomes in the garden. Then Ron shows them a swinging gnome/pixie.
[Norman Ashworth was a business partner of Ron's in R.S. Kitchen Ltd, he was also a founder member of Associated Dairies before it was ASDA]
Geoff Cooper (Ron's brother) and Vera Cooper (Ron's sister-in-law) and their two small boysJohn and Steven sit amongst the gnomes. One of the boys pretends to smoke a cigarette whilst the other plays with the swinging gnome. John and Steven hug each other and the smallest kisses his older brother on the cheek. Vera talks to Dora.
Mick (son), dressed in black jumper, black trousers and brown golfing shoes, hits golf balls in a field behind some houses. His friend David Head does the same. They practise getting the ball out bunker using a sand wedge.
[Both David Head and Mick were members of Rawdon Golf Club.]
