This film shows refurbishment of the building for the new Guide Girls Training Centre at Paxwold, followed by the official opening, attended by Lady Olave Baden-Powell. Finally, a tribute to Lady de Grimston, key benefactor on the new building at Paxwold. The film opens showing cottages along the main street in Paxwold village Yorkshire near Market Weighton, included in the opening view is the Goodmanham Arms public house. Views follow of bees pollinating wild roses. The view changes to a...

This film shows refurbishment of the building for the new Guide Girls Training Centre at Paxwold, followed by the official opening, attended by Lady Olave Baden-Powell. Finally, a tribute to Lady de Grimston, key benefactor on the new building at Paxwold. The film opens showing cottages along the main street in Paxwold village Yorkshire near Market Weighton, included in the opening view is the Goodmanham Arms public house. Views follow of bees pollinating wild roses. The view changes to a man sharpening a scythe while he looks at the camera, he then uses the scythe to trim down grass. A woman stacks cut vegetation on a smoking bonfire, two other women join in to stoke the fire. A woman paints an interior wall, another scrubs a floor. The exterior wall of what appears to be a cabin also gets painted along with a combined effort from four individuals to paint another exterior wall. Two women gather up electric power cables, then the film moves to men working in the garden. Two other men carry a large tree trunk across a wheelbarrow. A group of women throw cut vegetation into a pile. A change of scene as brownies, guides and sea rangers gather at a railway station. They form two lines on the platform. A train pulls into the station, Lady Olave Baden-Powell steps from the train. She talks to some of the waiting brownies and guides. She is accompanied by a senior guide. Lady Baden-Powell meets other senior figures at a venue where dinner is served to a large gathering of senior figures from the world of guiding The official guests enjoy a formal meal. A senior guide stands and addresses the diners as she officially welcomes Lady Baden-Powell. A book is presented to the illustrious guest, she then speaks to the diners. A senior guide receives a presentation from Lady Baden-Powell. A view follows she leaves the building and gets into a car. A change of venue as guides and brownies form lines at either side of a footpath leading to a house doorway. Smiling faces look at the camera as everyone waits in anticipation, they wave at the camera. Lady Baden-Powell arrives and walks between the lines of brownies and guides. The film moves on to her talking to an old gentleman who sitting outside in a garden. She awards him with a medal which she pins to his coat. The film then shows a black and white view of a portrait painting of a woman, before going back to colour film of some roses. The film then shows a sign which reads ‘Paxwold’ which is attached to a wooden structure which may be wooden bench. A view follows of the new single storey cabin structure which was seen at the beginning of the film. The Guides prepare for the visitors and some make their way to the area surrounding the cabin. A senior guide and a lord mayor walk towards the camera. Other official visitors arrive as guides and brownies wait in lines for Lady Baden-Powell to arrive. When she arrives standard bearers walk ahead of her, as official guests stand as she walks past the ranks giving the guide salute. Another lady on crutches follows and gives a speech at the new cabin. Lady Baden-Powell holds a key in her hand as she speaks into a microphone, and formally opens a door into the new building. She then picks up a flag which has the guiding trefoil emblem on it. The brownies and guides applaud at the official opening of the new building. The film shows the official foundation stone which reads: ‘This Stone Commemorates the Opening by Lady Baden-Powell G.B.E. of the East Yorks Girl Guides Training Centre 27th June 1964.’ Lady Baden-Powell addresses the guides and official visitors. The standard bearers approach the camera, some scouts who are attending stand to attention. The officials pass by. Lady Baden-Powell gets into a waiting car, and waves to everyone as it drives past. A senior guide speaks to a crowd of guides and brownies gathered in a sloping field. They then start singing. A senior guide invites Lady Baden-Powell to speak at the microphone, as the guides and brownies listen. Lady Baden-Powell and attending officials speak from a farm wagon which has been adapted as a stage. Guides carrying the standard wait nearby. The film cuts to four red cross nurses standing to attention near an ambulance. A sign on one of the vehicles open doors reads ‘Red Cross’. Another change of view shows cub scouts sitting on the grass, listening to Lady Baden-Powells speech. The film cuts back to the newly opened guide centre with general view of people outside the building. Lady Baden-Powell engages in conversation with some of the visitors and the guides and brownies. She also presents some awards to some men that are present, some are in suits others wear their scout uniform. A change of scene as several East Yorkshire municipal buses stand in line waiting presumably on a road near to Paxwold village for guide and brownie passengers to climb aboard. At another venue Lady Baden-Powell shakes hand with several other senior guides and officials. She then gets into a Triumph Herald car and is driven off. The film cuts to senior guides waving at the camera. The film moves inside where guides and brownies play table tennis. Two adults try their skills at the game. The guides then play a game where small rings are thrown at a decorated board which has hooks on it. The idea is to get the rings to hang a hook and win a designated number of points. Two guides try their hand at dominoes or use them as building bricks. Another two play draughts. Some others collect food from a serving hatch, sit at a table and eat and drink. They then wash utensils and pots at a kitchen sink; some cakes are placed in a fridge. A change of scene as a lady with a walking stick enters the new guide centre. This believed to be Lady de Grimston, she walks through the refreshment area. The film shows a commemorative threshold stone which reads: ‘The is Threshold Stone Was Laid By Lady de Grimston J.P. who kindly gave the land for a county Girl Guides Training Centre 10th July 1963’ Another notice reads ‘The De Grimston Door The Gift of Lady De Grimston 1964’. Lady de Grimston looks at the camera as she opens the main door of the centre. The film cuts to show children in what appear to be dormitory beds, as a senior guide tucks in and speaks to a few of them. A younger guide looks after another child. The film ends with the union jack and the guides emblem flying from a flagpole, a brief view of the white rose of Yorkshire emblem and the sign that reads ‘Paxwold’ seen earlier in the film.