A film produced by South Shields native Sidney Coston to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V in May 1935. The first part of the film contains British Movietone newsreel of official celebrations taking place in London. The remainder of the film features similar events taking place in South Shields including the presentation of gifts to a group of young girls at Ingham Infirmary followed by a procession of civic dignitaries and decorative floats through the town. The film begins...

A film produced by South Shields native Sidney Coston to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V in May 1935. The first part of the film contains British Movietone newsreel of official celebrations taking place in London. The remainder of the film features similar events taking place in South Shields including the presentation of gifts to a group of young girls at Ingham Infirmary followed by a procession of civic dignitaries and decorative floats through the town. The film begins with a newsreel from London of King George V and Queen Mary making their way from Buckingham Palace to St Paul's Cathedral to mark the King’s Silver Jubilee. Other members of the Royal family include the Duke and Duchess of York arrive and head into the cathedral. Inside a service of commemoration after which the Royal party leaves returning to Buckingham Palace. In the grounds of what is believed Ingham Infirmary at South Shields a large group of young girls watches as a nurse or matron from the hospital shake hands with a man. After a moment the children begin waving Union Jacks watched from the sides by a small group of dignitaries. The film changes to the girls coming through a wooden door back outside each carrying two small packages. Along the pavement, a crowd watches as an open-top Rolls Royce drives past with two women seated in the rear. A horse-drawn carriage followed next carrying three men and a woman, one of the men is wearing a cocked-hat, he waves at the crowd. Following behind come a series of horse-drawn and motorised decorative floats. One motorised float contains four child mannequins advertising ‘C.W.S Soap’ while another horse-drawn float for South Shields Greyhound Stadium includes a number of greyhounds. An open-top lorry drives past with a number of nuns seated in the back while a float indicates those on board as ‘Glee Men’. Another float droves past contains a boat in which a number of people are sitting. Writing along its base reads ‘Glebe Men’s Fellowship’. Another motorised float drives past advertising ‘Semtea – The Great Three in One Tea’. A number of women in white overalls walk along the edge of the road shaking collecting tins at the crowds. Behind them a queue of trams waiting to proceed along the road. The women stand beside the Semtea lorry now parked outside a factory, only some of the letting on the wall for the company can be seen reading ‘…tea’. Nearby a number of floats are stationary. Inside one is a boy wearing a slicker jacket and hat sitting in a small boat. Writing along the bottom of the float can partly be read ‘Tyne Dock Co-Operative Society’. Another float for Ingham Infirmary has two children laying in beds watched over by nurses. Banners across the top indicate the need for £16,000 for a new building. The four people seen previously in the open-top carriage smile, the man in the cocked-hat doffs it at the camera. The film ends with a young woman scowling at the camera while beside her in a car sit two people.