The first of three camera rolls filmed by Dennis Wompra showing the early stages of construction for RAF fylingdales on Snod Hill, part of the North Yorks Moors National Park. The film begins with views of the moors before work begins followed by men working of various foundations for a number of concrete and brick structures as well as a number of wooden barrack blocks. The final part of the reel shows a visit by a number of men to the site including one man dress in an American army...

The first of three camera rolls filmed by Dennis Wompra showing the early stages of construction for RAF fylingdales on Snod Hill, part of the North Yorks Moors National Park. The film begins with views of the moors before work begins followed by men working of various foundations for a number of concrete and brick structures as well as a number of wooden barrack blocks. The final part of the reel shows a visit by a number of men to the site including one man dress in an American army officers’ uniform. Two road traverse the moorland around Snod Hill in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park. In the distance a bus is parked along the road and sheep graze nearby. Two are herded by a farmer or shepherd. Just off the road a small construction site, a Land Rover drives past along a road. The wind blows a nearby growth of heather followed by a fast-flowing steam leading into a small river or beck passing under a stone bridge in the near distance. A car drives across the bridge, nearby a sheep grazing. The river flows through moorland past growths of fern and heather. [Blank] On a small embankment surrounded by moorland construction site. At the bottom of the embankment a stream in which men work to build a small concrete structure. Two men push wheelbarrows back and forth across scaffolding collection and depositing cement from a man at the controls of a funnel the reach back to the top of the embankment. At the bottom of the scaffolding five men use shovels to move the cement into a dug trench. Nearby two men work a pneumatic drill to drill holes in the bedrock. Three sheep walk past through the ferns and heather towards a small waterfall. Back on the building site men line up to pour cups of tea from a large urn into metal cups or thermos flasks. Two men push and pull a wheelbarrow up an incline, below them a group of bricklayers are building a circular structure. Atop a hill on a bendy country road the highway disappearing into the distance. At the bottom of the hill a number of houses in the village of Levisham with other houses, and farms in the surrounding moorland in the distance. At the bottom of the hill one of the buildings seen previous; the ‘Saltersgate Inn’ public house. Across the road from the pub a sign for ‘Morning Coffee Ham & Eggs & Afternoon Teas’. A road crossing the moor, in the distance several coaches are parked near to a number of large wooden barrack buildings. Beside one of the barracks the condition of the structure is poor with missing boards and window. Four men walk past carrying a wooden wall panel and place it on the ground near a brick foundation. Another panel is brought over and deposited on the ground where two men standing in the brick foundation uses hand-drills to drill holes in the base of the panels. A muddy track or road beside which barrack buildings are built. A man looks over a diesel engine attached to a cement silo, nearby another man shovels gravel into the bucket of ‘Wimpy’ dump truck. The man looking after the cement silo comes over with a sledgehammer and speaks with the man with the shovel. General view of the site with several stacks of wall panels and other construction equipment beside several barrack buildings [Blank] A gravel road leading to a construction site in the distance. Earth is piled up on the side of the road with wooden poles pushed into them along the route. A muddy earthen embankment dug out of the moorland. Four workmen stand around a plastic sheet, one of the men releases the catches and if flaps free. Beside them a diesel engine or generator. The camera pans right to a larger construction site where a caterpillar-tracked tractor-scraper driving across the muddy earth passing a bulldozer and in the distance a crane. The camera continues to move across a large muddy cleared site. A group of workmen watch another aboard a drum compactor or roller as he rolls over a recently laid concrete foundation. The caterpillar-tracked tractor-scraper drives past, its caterpillar tracks still having problems move through the thick, muddy earth. A man in a duffle coat speaks with the drive. A man uses a sled to shovel limestone or clay into a large cement mixer. Two men stand looking out across the construction site, nearby a workman at the controls of the mixer uses his spanner to hit the underside of the now upturned mixer bucket. A group of men arrive on a site, a number of them shake hand. They are shown around by another man in a white jacket, they watch with interest as cement is poured into a foundation. One of the group has a camera and is taking photographs, some of the men are wearing American army officer uniforms. A metal bucket moves along single railtrack towards the cement mixer, the group watch on with interest. General view of a large, cleared area with some construction equipment and workmen standing along one side. A workman pulls the bucket seen previously along the track in the opposite direction before pushing it down an incline. It moves along the track coming to a stop beside a number of other workers. In the distant valley below a steam train comes along a railway track, the camera pans right to cars travelling along a road across the moors. Back on site the tour group stand beside a parked car, one of the men in an American officer’s uniforms opens a passenger door and a man gets in. The officer and two other men look over a plan, behind them three other men stand chatting. The group come together beside the officer holding the plan, two different men now hold the plan pointing at something in the distance. Behind them the others watch a a backhoe loader or digger which has become stuck in the mud, the drive gets out and walks away. A bulldozer drives slowly past pushing a pile of earth in front of it. Two workmen look down from the cabin of the caterpillar-tracked tractor-scraper before driving off. The driver from the backhoe loader has returned, he sits at the controls of the backhoe digging the mud out from around him. The film ends on gravel road leading to and from the construction site. A roller is parked nearby, a drainage trench is dug along the right side of the track.