An amateur film of a civic ceremony or event taking place outside the Old Town Hall on St Nicholas Square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The event maybe military based as it involved both soldiers and Royal Navy personnel as well as the Lord Mayor of Newcastle. Outside the Old Town Hall on St Nicholas Square a military or police marching band stands waiting in the pouring rain. A policeman stands in front of a wooden barricade behind which a large crowd. A line of soldiers, their rifles fixed...

An amateur film of a civic ceremony or event taking place outside the Old Town Hall on St Nicholas Square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The event maybe military based as it involved both soldiers and Royal Navy personnel as well as the Lord Mayor of Newcastle. Outside the Old Town Hall on St Nicholas Square a military or police marching band stands waiting in the pouring rain. A policeman stands in front of a wooden barricade behind which a large crowd. A line of soldiers, their rifles fixed with bayonets, comes to attention as the Lord Mayor and other civic dignitaries climb onto a raised platform beside the town hall itself. Standing in front of the platform two military bugle players stand either side of a third man wear a bicorne. Other civic dignitaries as well as men in army and naval dress uniforms stand nearby. An officer or NCO stands to attention in front of the platform his dress-sword drawn. In front of him both bugle players blowing their instrument. On the platform the Town Clerk makes a speech into a microphone, he finishes and those around him raise their hats in salute. At the end of the ceremony the soldiers remove their bayonets and march away past the crowds followed by the band seen at the start.