A home movie produced by Robert Clark that features family and friends often posing with various children in the garden of the family home at Lobley Hill, a suburb of Gateshead. The film also features views of the Swing and Tyne Bridge crossing the Tyne as well as visits to Whitley Bay, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Bamburgh in Northumberland. In the front garden of a house two women squat a few feet apart with their arms out as a toddler takes his or her first steps from one to the other. A man...

A home movie produced by Robert Clark that features family and friends often posing with various children in the garden of the family home at Lobley Hill, a suburb of Gateshead. The film also features views of the Swing and Tyne Bridge crossing the Tyne as well as visits to Whitley Bay, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Bamburgh in Northumberland. In the front garden of a house two women squat a few feet apart with their arms out as a toddler takes his or her first steps from one to the other. A man joins them, they play with the child on the lawn. The two women stand beside fence playing with the child, an older child comes over to speak with his mother. The toddler, followed by his older sibling, climbs a set of stairs; back outside the toddler is held in the arms of a third woman. A fourth woman comes over and cuddles both the woman and child, she puts a pair of sunglasses onto the toddler’s face. The two women pose with two children in the doorway of the house, behind them one of the women seen previously, they all chat happily while playing with the older boy. The older boy poses against a wall of the house changes to a young couple standing smiling and chatting in a doorway. The man grabs the woman’s arm playfully pulls her towards him. The toddler walks towards camera changing to him in the garden with a young man playing with a wooden peg. Two women and a man stand posing together. From an elevated position on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne the Swing Bridge and the nearby Tyne Bridge. Two older women and an older man pose together against a wall, one of the women is smoking a cigarette. A woman sits on the concrete seawall overlooking the beach at Whitley Bay, in the distance St Mary’s Lighthouse. The film changes to her sitting on a bench in the Spanish City Pleasure Gardens, the dome of Spanish City itself in the near distance. A number of older women sitting on benches admire the decorative flowerbeds in front of them while other visitors walk past. A young man in shirt and tie stands in a street holding the hands of two small boys standing either side of him. They go for a walk through a field before standing on the edge of a road. The older boy races across the road and back again. A woman stands in the front garden of the house seen previously holding a small boy in her arms, she waves. A couple and small child stand beside a bed of colourful flowers, possibly an allotment. A young couple stand in the front garden of a housing, the man is holding a puppy. A small boy stands posing and playing for the camera. On a hill overlooking a factory below a young woman stands holding a toddler. Nearby two small boys in swimming trunks, they come over and stand beside the woman holding the toddler. A man stands in the queue inside a fish and chip shop, behind the counter a woman fills an order. Three boys play together in the driveway of a modern house. One of the boys sits on the steps of a footpath while the older of the three holds closed a gate the youngest tries to go through. A statue or war memorial changes to a woman standing on the Old Bridge crossing the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed, behind her the Royal Tweed Bridge. Several fishing boats are moored in the harbour. On a beach two women and a man sit in deckchairs relaxing and chatting. The three of them walk across a field beside a stone wall. Two young women stand in the doorway of a modern house playing with a small dog. One of the women places her arm across the shoulders of the other, they look at each other smiling. Cars are parked in the road beneath Bamburgh Castle, a car pulls up near the entrance to the castle itself. Three women and a man sit on a large rock overlooking a sandy beach below. A helicopter flies past passing over the beach and sea below. The group look out from the castle battlements. In the village of Bamburgh the group head into a local public house, general views of the castle exterior from the village. A brightly coloured and fluffy children’s doll or toy changes to a Pekingese dog being played with on the steps of a house. In the living room of a house three young women sit on a sofa chatting.