An amateur film that predominately features work being carried out to build a bonfire on the Town Moor at Newcastle-upon-Tyne possibly as part of King George V Silver Jubilee celebrations in May 1935. The film also features streets in the city decorated with bunting and banners and a military procession of artillery pieces making its way onto the Town Moor possibly for a 21-gun salute in honour of the king. On the Town Moor a woman looks up on the structure of a massive bonfire made up of...

An amateur film that predominately features work being carried out to build a bonfire on the Town Moor at Newcastle-upon-Tyne possibly as part of King George V Silver Jubilee celebrations in May 1935. The film also features streets in the city decorated with bunting and banners and a military procession of artillery pieces making its way onto the Town Moor possibly for a 21-gun salute in honour of the king. On the Town Moor a woman looks up on the structure of a massive bonfire made up of many various shaped pieces of wood or plank. Five boy relax on the grass beside it. Trams, double-decker buses and other vehicles drive along a busy Newcastle street. Bunting and banners cross the road, many of the building are adorned with decorations and flags. Back on the Town Moor four policemen on horseback ride in front of a procession of army lorries carrying soldiers and pulling artillery pieces. A crowd gathers around the bonfire, now taller than before, three people stand on the top. Beside a tent two boys work to saw pieces of wood, members of a local Boy’s Brigade load wood into a hand cart pulling it closer to the bonfire. Men and boys use ropes to help stabilise the structure, another man and boy work on the bonfire itself adding more or adjusting pieces of wood. The film ends on the crowd still watching preparations and a boy handing up more wood to be added.