A home movie produced by Edwin Davison that primarily features family holidays to Malgrat de Mar on the Costa Brava in Spain and the Spanish island of Ibiza. However, the film also shows the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious being towed out of the Tyne following it completion on the 18th June, 1982. The film also features Simpson’s Hotel, a hostel for single or homeless men, shortly before its demolition in 1983, and the newly opened Tyne & Wear Metro station at Wallsend not long after it...

A home movie produced by Edwin Davison that primarily features family holidays to Malgrat de Mar on the Costa Brava in Spain and the Spanish island of Ibiza. However, the film also shows the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious being towed out of the Tyne following it completion on the 18th June, 1982. The film also features Simpson’s Hotel, a hostel for single or homeless men, shortly before its demolition in 1983, and the newly opened Tyne & Wear Metro station at Wallsend not long after it opened on the 14th November, 1982. HMS Illustrious is towed down the river Tyne away from Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd at Wallsend where it was built. From a hotel window in the town of Malgrat de Mar a woman walks along the road below, nearby the hotel swimming pool. On a beach sunbathers and hotel built just off the sand. A group of tourists look inside a shop, more walk up and down a shopping boulevard. A motorised train travels along a road past the Hotel Sorra Daurada. At night fireworks in the sky and a bonfire. A tram passes through Malgrat station. Tourists walking along a street and a woman buying an ice cream from a kiosk. On the beach crowds of people relaxing or swimming in the sea. Visitors make their way towards the Cathedral of Barcelona changing to a viewing area looking down on the city below. The spires and unique architectural style of La Sagrada Familia changes to a boat trip passing a replica sailing boat and the statue of Christopher Columbus. Overlooking Placa de Catalunya the Banco Central and traffic moving around the square. There is a turning circular emblem atop a building followed by a poster for ‘Espana 82’. People walking about the city and a marina below seen through a hole. A light aircraft flies overhead pulling a banner. A woman stands on a balcony looking out over the city below. From an airplane flying north the mouth of the River Tyne and the town of Tynemouth and Whitley Bay below; in the distance St Mary’s Lighthouse. The aircraft comes into land. The Hotel Ereso and a tour bus parked in the road outside. A man standing on rocks looks out to sea using a pair of binoculars. A couple walk along a coastal path changing to another couple walking along a seafront boulevard walking through a gate to the Hotel Ereso. From a lookout position the sea below with a war ship moored in the distance. The couple walk along a road changing to shows shirts for sale in a shop. The filmmaker Edwin and his daughter Karen look out from their hotel balcony at the other hotel complexes built around them. In the distance two boats approach a quayside. The Simpson’s Hotel at Wallsend, behind it the cranes of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders Ltd. A Tyne & Wear Metro car passes through the town. Bus stops outside the Wallsend Metro station and from the platform a Metro train arriving. A double-decker bus passes the station, and the film ends on cranes at the shipyard.