A home movie made by Edwin Davison begins with a visit to the farm of a family friend near Slainsfield in Northumberland where the horses and hounds of the Northumberland Hunt are based. In the village of Etal wife Evelyne and daughter Karen visit Etal Castle. At the Swan Hunter and Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd in Wallsend, where the filmmaker worked as a Manager in the Cost Department, the launching of the Esso Northumbria on the 2nd May, 1969 by Princess Anne. In the final section of the film a...

A home movie made by Edwin Davison begins with a visit to the farm of a family friend near Slainsfield in Northumberland where the horses and hounds of the Northumberland Hunt are based. In the village of Etal wife Evelyne and daughter Karen visit Etal Castle. At the Swan Hunter and Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd in Wallsend, where the filmmaker worked as a Manager in the Cost Department, the launching of the Esso Northumbria on the 2nd May, 1969 by Princess Anne. In the final section of the film a holiday to Scotland visiting Pitlochry Hydroelectric Dam Power Station followed to Blair Castle. On farm the filmmaker daughter Karen attempts to stroke several hunting dog puppies behind a wire fence. A man in a whitecoat leading a pack of hunting hounds through a farmyard watched by filmmaker’s wife Evelyne. She watches along with a couple of others as the pack heads out along a path. Evelyne and a boy stroke the mane of a horse in a field, the hound pack passes by accompanied by two people on horseback. In a farmyard Evelyne watches as two men climb onto horses and ride away. Animal bones are placed in the yard and the hound pack swarm around eating it. Two girls, including the filmmaker’s daughter Karen, go for a walk through a wood passing a horse in a field at the edge of the trees. In the farmyard Karen and her friend attempt to stoke a horse in a stable. Karen, her mother and a second woman walk along a road, past cars parked along the verge. The cars maybe parked near to a ferry landing as the sea is in the background. Karen, eating an ice cream, sticks her tongue out at the camera. At a fair or country show steam traction engines and miniature locomotives along with rides and attractions. [Blank] In a village, cars and a bus parked along a road outside a row terraced houses. Karen and a boy come along the path of one of the houses towards one of the parked cars, Evelyne follows behind. Evelyne and Karen walk along a country road past a thatched cottage towards the ruins of Etal Castle. The cross a pedestrian suspension bridge over the river Till. At Swan Hunter and Tyne Shipbuilders Ltd Wallsend the tanker Esso Northumbria on the slipway, at the rear its massive propellers and a launching platform under construction near the bow. The Royal car carrying Princess Anne arrives at the shipyard and a crowd watching as the tanker slips into the river Tyne. Sir James Hunter escorts Princess Anne into a building at the yard, she waves at the crowds as she passes. General view of the now empty slipway. A steam passenger train passes under a bridge at speed changing to Evelyne and Karen looking at two horses in a field. They walk through the grounds of a tower house or castle in Scotland changes to a phantom car ride along a Scottish loch. At a playground Evelyne and Karen ride a swing together before playing a game of pitch-and-put. A visit to Pitlochry Hydroelectric Dam Power Station followed to Blair Castle with visitors on the roof looking out across the river Tilt and Garry below.