An amateur film shot during the Second World War, this film shows a group of Prisoners of War helping to construct some buildings in the village of Clayton, West Yorkshire. The film opens showing two of the filmmaker's daughters standing on a pathway, posing for the camera before they go for a walk. The film then moves to show a building site on the outskirts of Clayton. A digger and a crane are moving earth to lay the foundations for farm buildings. The machine slowly moves the earth...

An amateur film shot during the Second World War, this film shows a group of Prisoners of War helping to construct some buildings in the village of Clayton, West Yorkshire. The film opens showing two of the filmmaker's daughters standing on a pathway, posing for the camera before they go for a walk. The film then moves to show a building site on the outskirts of Clayton. A digger and a crane are moving earth to lay the foundations for farm buildings. The machine slowly moves the earth across and dumps it into an open truck.  Later, groups of Prisoners of War are shown working on the site.  Moving iron bars together and doing general labour, they stand in groups and pose for the camera. The film closes with another shot of the building site and the men taken from a distance.   Additional information from film box: " Cote fields before estate built. German prisoners working on site." [information added by AB]  Someone (?) has suggested that the POWs are Italian.