A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood featuring his wife Kath and his son David and daughter Deborah playing together in the family garden at Heath Crescent in the village of Bradley, North Yorkshire. Deborah grows from a baby to 2–3-year-old. In a field Kath works with another woman to collect hay, the other woman rides a horse-drawn mechanical rake. The family take a holiday to Whitby in 1959, they play in the surf and on the beach. On West Cliff they sail a model sailboat on a boating lake...

A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood featuring his wife Kath and his son David and daughter Deborah playing together in the family garden at Heath Crescent in the village of Bradley, North Yorkshire. Deborah grows from a baby to 2–3-year-old. In a field Kath works with another woman to collect hay, the other woman rides a horse-drawn mechanical rake. The family take a holiday to Whitby in 1959, they play in the surf and on the beach. On West Cliff they sail a model sailboat on a boating lake and play a game of pitch and put. Beside a river with small waterfall younger girls paddle alongside older one’s swimming and play in the river. In the final part of the film the arrival of third child John with him being introduced to his older siblings. Wearing a swimsuit Deborah Ellwood plays in the family garden alongside older brother David. Mother Kath helps Deborah into a toy wheelbarrow which is attached to her brother tricycle with rope. With a little help from Kath, they ride around the garden together. The two children play with a small plastic ball, Deborah now climbs onto the back of David tricycle and again is pedals around the garden. Another girl roughly the same age as David comes to play in the garden alongside Deborah. David rides with her around the garden on his tricycle, she kisses him on the cheek. In a field Kath stands beside David with Deborah in a pushchair as a woman riding a horse-drawn rake passes collecting up hay. Deborah is given a bottle of milk as Kath helps out with the farm work. An older boy watches out for David and Deborah changes to David making his own bundles of hay. Kath relaxing on the ground is disturbed by her daughter playing with the toggle of her straw hat. Kath then takes her daughter over to stroke the horse. David Ellwood drives along a pavement in a pedal-power red car. Deborah climbs in and they drive off together. Title: Whitby 1959 David plays happily in the surf, the waves splashing against his feet while nearby Kath helps Deborah into her bathing costume. Three older children play with a ball in the surf as Kath walks over with David by her side and Deborah in her arms. Kath runs in and out of the sea much to the amusement of Deborah. David, carrying a bucket and spade, walk hand-in-hand with Deborah along West Cliff. At a boating lake he places a model boat onto the water and process to follow it through the shallow water. His sister joins him splashing around in the water. David runs around the boating lake while Ken sits on a nearby bench with Deborah on his knees. David comes over to show his father the model boat. The family play a game of pitch-and-put with Kath potting a ball into a hole. The children follow Kath as she makes her way down to the beach along a zig-zag path. The beach is busy with other holiday makers and children ride past of donkeys. Sitting in a deckchair Kath helps her children into beachwear and David builds a sandcastle with moat. Kath takes Deborah down to the surf and fills a small bucket with water followed by Ken carrying David into the surf along with his model boat and playing with it in the sea. Back at the deckchairs David covers Kath’s feet with sand. From a rocky rivers edge Kath and Deborah watch four older girls swim and play in the water below. They climb out of the water beside a small waterfall and jump back in. Another woman helps a younger girl learn how to swim. Another girl slides down the waterfall and poses with two others at the bottom. Kath watches over Deborah as she splashes about in a small pool next to the river, she throws stones into the water and is joined by two older girls. A woman holds the hand of her daughter who cautiously climbing over a fast-flowing section of water. As she does so another girl slides past. With his daughter in his hands, Ken splashes about in the water. The four older girls seen previously have a race, Ken sits under the waterfall. He helps his daughter into the water. Kath Ellwood climbs into the family car while a nurse stands in the doorway of the maternity hospital holding her second son John in her arms. She poses him for the camera as she walks over to the car handing the child to Kath. Back at home David and Deborah walk over to look at their new brother, they all walk together into the house. John sits on his mother’s knee as both David and Deborah come over and kiss him on the cheek. The film ends with them all playing together.