Part of the Youth Hostels Association Collection, this is a promotional film which features a tour of hostels and sites around Northumbria. Two women walkers are looking towards a hill in the distance. One woman is standing up with her arms in the air; the other woman is sitting down. Another walker wearing a rucksack joins them. Title card - ‘This Freedom’ overlaying the YHA logo. A group of walkers is shown gathered on some rocks. Intertitle - ‘Tour of Northumbrian Hostels’. The...

Part of the Youth Hostels Association Collection, this is a promotional film which features a tour of hostels and sites around Northumbria. Two women walkers are looking towards a hill in the distance. One woman is standing up with her arms in the air; the other woman is sitting down. Another walker wearing a rucksack joins them. Title card - ‘This Freedom’ overlaying the YHA logo. A group of walkers is shown gathered on some rocks. Intertitle - ‘Tour of Northumbrian Hostels’. The group of walkers are shown walking uphill wearing rucksacks. Intertitle - ‘We start at Wallington’. Intertitle - ‘Doing our Daily Duties’. Three women of the group are sitting down outside a wooden structure. Behind them, the men of the group are carrying linen/sheets. They shake and fold the linen. Some of the group is shown sawing logs from bits of trees. Some of the group is shown in a rowing boat on a lake. People are shown cycling away as others wave at them. Some of the group is shown walking away from a wooden gate. Intertitle - ‘A committee meeting’. The group are sitting on the grass of a riverbank. Intertitle - ‘Edmondbyers’ [misspelling of Edmundbyers]. A row of housing is shown. A group of cows walk down the road. Intertitle - ‘Past Memories: Allendale’. A youth hostel building is shown with the Youth Hostel Association logo outside on a sign. Intertitle - ‘Once brewed on the Roman Wall’. People are shown standing next to their bicycles outside the building. Inside, people are pouring drinks. A woman stands on a wall looking over a field. Intertitle - ‘Bellingham opened by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland - Aug.28.1937’. A crowd of people take their seats on wooden chairs outside a Youth Hostel. A man standing up is giving a speech. Everybody claps. The man opens the door to the building. Two men now stand in the doorway to the building, giving a speech. The crowd then make their way inside. Several of these buildings are revealed outside. Groups of people are also shown outside; two men are raking the ground. Intertitle - ‘Bellingham caters for the North Tyne’. Landscape shots of trees are shown. Intertitle - ‘Alnham.’ A man is shown walking into a stone building. Intertitle - ‘WOOLER, a converted railway station opened by Sir Charles Trevelyan’. A crowd of people are shown walking over some railway tracks. A man holds up a large key. Intertitle - ‘Cheviot Pass Time’. The group all follow each other out of a building and signal to the camera as they walk on. The group are shown hiking through greenery. Landscape shots of the hills/mountains and countryside are shown. The group are shown hiking up a rocky area near a waterfall. A woman is shown walking through the snow with a bucket. The group are shown hiking uphill through the snow; two of the hikers fall down in the snow. The group continues walking down a trail in the snow. Women are shown sitting in the grass in their swimwear. Some of the group is shown swimming in a river. Intertitle - ‘Over the border for a contrast’. The Scottish flag on a flagpole is shown flying. Intertitle - ‘Hoddam Castle’ [misspelling ‘Hoddom Castle’]. Views of the castle exterior are shown. A crowd of people are shown gathered outside the castle. The Scottish flag is shown being hoisted to the top of the mast until it flies, blowing in the wind. Title card - ‘The End.’