A home movie made by Edwin Davison of a family holiday to Scotland with daughter Karen often posing beside relevant road signs or location. The holiday begins at Gretna Green travelling though Newton Stewart, Minnigaff and onto Kirkcaldy where Karen watches a fishing boat arrive in harbour. Around an estuary or Karen plays while her mother rests and her father pushes her on a swing. The film ends with the family retuning to England and construction work to dual-carriageway the Coast Road near...

A home movie made by Edwin Davison of a family holiday to Scotland with daughter Karen often posing beside relevant road signs or location. The holiday begins at Gretna Green travelling though Newton Stewart, Minnigaff and onto Kirkcaldy where Karen watches a fishing boat arrive in harbour. Around an estuary or Karen plays while her mother rests and her father pushes her on a swing. The film ends with the family retuning to England and construction work to dual-carriageway the Coast Road near the family home at Wallsend. At Gretna Green in Scotland the filmmaker daughter Karen walks towards the whitewashed forge and sits on a bench. Above her a sign reads ‘Scotland First House’. A flag showing the Royal Arms of Scotland flies about another sign on the building that reads ‘Over 10,000 marriages performed in this marriage room. Est. 1830’. Karen walks up to and poses in front of a road sign that reads ‘Welcome to Scotland’. The family car is parked on the verge of a country road, the filmmaker’s wife Evelyne gets into the driver’s seat and drives off with Karen in the back. A road bridge across the river Cree into the town of Newton Stewart with Karen walking along the wall behind it. Karen stands in front of another road sign this one for the village of Minnigaff. In a wood Karen picks flowers which she holds up for the camera followed by her sitting on a rock beside a fast-flowing river and waterfall. She throws a stone into the water. At Kirkcaldy Karen rests against a quayside bollard watching a fishing boat enter the harbour, a smaller inshore fishing boat motors past. A small group of tourists walks along a second quayside watching as another fishing boat leaves the harbour. In a park Karen on a swing changing to her running over to her mother who stands beside the family car. A sandy beach or estuary with greenery around the edges and Karen playing in rocks close to where the car is parked. Evelyne rests on the rocks as her daughter plays behind her. She gets up and helps her daughter jump onto the sand. Karen races across the sand towards the camera stopping to look in the water of a stream. He father help push her on a home-made swing hanging from a tree. A horse a field surrounded by hills changes to four large shire horses in another field beside a road. A rocky moorland landscape behind a stone wall with a fast-flowing river nearby. From an elevated position a Scottish Glen and loch with a road passing through it. Along a track Black headed gulls feeding followed by another landscape of sheep in a field and heavy clouds in the distance. Another Scottish loch and houses in the distance with the filmmaker and his daughter going for a walk along the shoreline. The family car is parked beside a caravan, Karen sits on a rug nearby. General view of houses in the near distance build around the edge of estuary at low tide. Again, Karen and Edwin walk along the beach. Karen stands on a bridge looking out on a wide river, she stands beside a road sign that reads ‘Haste ye back to Scotland’ which is only a few hundred yards away from the Gretna Green forge seen at the start of the film. Another road signs this time pointing to London in one direction and Glasgow the other. Along the verge of a road Karen approaches a road sign reading ‘England’. A panoramic view of the Grenta Green forge changes to a different panoramic view of construction work taking place on the Coast Road near Wallsend where a large area of earth has been excavated in readiness for the building of an underpass. The film ends at the family home and the filmmaker uses a pair of shears to trim the edge of his front lawn.