A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and their three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard. In this reel Rosemary helps to demolish a building in the garden of the family home in Sedgefield. They attend a wedding in London and enjoy Christmas at home over a meal and the exchanging of gifts. Come February they witness the annual Sedgefield Ball Game taking place on Shrove Tuesday and visit an older couple, believed to be Joanna’s parents, at their large country...

A home move produced by John Scott Forsyth featuring wife Joanna and their three children Rosemary, Angus and Richard. In this reel Rosemary helps to demolish a building in the garden of the family home in Sedgefield. They attend a wedding in London and enjoy Christmas at home over a meal and the exchanging of gifts. Come February they witness the annual Sedgefield Ball Game taking place on Shrove Tuesday and visit an older couple, believed to be Joanna’s parents, at their large country house. Richard Forsyth in his school uniform runs around in the back garden of the family home in Sedgefield. Outside the front of the house his mother Joanna gets out of a car, he goes for a walk near to the home. In the garden daughter Rosemary works at a bench beside a partly demolished garden building. She sits in a deck chair on the lawn, a young man stands beside her. They work together to fill a case with china before enjoying a drink. The man works to demolish part of the garden building. A large queue of people line-up outside a large building in London. In the courtyard of a modern building a man makes a speech to a large, seated crowd (very dark). A newly married couple pose for photographs, on their own and then with members of their family. Guests stand around chatting. A family group walk around the exterior of a large county house. Richard Forsyth throws a large stone into river; his mother and older brother Angus walk along the riverbank. Rosemary Forsyth and a second young woman pose for the camera in a street. Joanna and an older woman stand in the doorway of a conservatory attached to a whitewashed building. They walk into the garden. A fast-flowing river and a stone bridge crossing over it changes to Richard and Joanna walking along a country road. Joanna holds up a teddy bear dressed as a king with robe and crown. [B&W] A dinner party with Joanna working in the kitchen. Richard lights a candle, Rosemary picks at food across the table. In the living the family sit around a sofa exchanging gifts. On the floor beside a fire a cat which someone strokes. [Colour] A couple walks towards the entrance of Durham Cathedral on Palace Green, the Forsyth’s walk past the camera away from the cathedral. Rosemary and a young man come out of the family home, the rest of the family standing in the doorway smiling and chatting. The couple plus a second young man gets into a car parked nearby. A tractor with bucket works near a building that is next door to ‘Aldersons’ petrol station. A number of workmen are also on site. A young man and older woman get into a car parked beside a large house. Three people go for a walk through a snowy landscape, they walk past the Tan Hill Inn at Swalesdale. The snow now gone, the group walk past a wood. In a snowy field two men work to build a camp with tent. One of the men pushes the other in a chair, he then uses an axe to cut a guidewire. Joanna and Richard walk near the base of Gordale Scar, Richard treads carefully over a stream they continue their walk around the base. The Forsyth’s join another family in the garden of a large house, they go for a walk along a street of partially derelict buildings chatting as they go. In Sedgefield a large crowds of men take part in the tradition Shrove Tuesday ball game, a car tries to drive along the road as players kick the ball around it. The game continues outside The Black Lion public house, the Forsyth family watch from a distance. In a field a tractor pulls a lorry out of the mud changes to show the Forsyth’s with friends chatting in the garden of the family home with a woman who is smoking a cigarette. Richard and Rosemary walk past a county house with an older man. The family relax nearby as the older man goes fishing in a river. Two older women sit chatting outside a house, the older of the two women sits in a wicker chair wrapped in a blanket. Richard walks around a large garden while the older man chats with others under umbrellas. Richard feeds a number of lambs in a field accompanied by other members of his family. They go for a walk beside a large river. In field a hole is being dug and a tree planted by several workmen watched over by the Forsyth’s. A wicker fence is built around it, the family watch a man partway up a tree. The film ends with the family playing together on the lawned area in front of a large house.