A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood of a family holiday to Bournemouth in June 1965. The film begins with his three eldest children playing in the grounds of the Woodcroft Hotel Garden followed a visit to a fair and traction engine rally possibly taking place at Beaulieu. The family then take a pleasure cruise onboard the ‘Swanage Belle’ and enjoy the sea and sand on Bournemouth beach. Moving on the family take a walk through the New Forest to see the Knightwood Oak near Lyndhurst as well as...

A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood of a family holiday to Bournemouth in June 1965. The film begins with his three eldest children playing in the grounds of the Woodcroft Hotel Garden followed a visit to a fair and traction engine rally possibly taking place at Beaulieu. The family then take a pleasure cruise onboard the ‘Swanage Belle’ and enjoy the sea and sand on Bournemouth beach. Moving on the family take a walk through the New Forest to see the Knightwood Oak near Lyndhurst as well as New Forest pony foals. The film ends with all four of the Ellwood children climbing over some of the large stones that make up Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. In the gardens of the Woodcroft Hotel Garden in Bournemouth the filmmaker’s son John leans to ride a bicycle with the help of sister Deborah. He rides happily in circles around the lawn. Deborah gets on the bike and chases him around the garden while older brother David plays football with some of the other children staying at the hotel. At a fairground the children sit on a ride made up of miniature vintage cars which travel around a circuit. As the car passes John looks out from the backseat smiling at the camera. The family, including mother Kath, watches as David speeds around another circuit in a go-kart followed by them looking over a series of steam traction engines on display in a field. They all sit on the grass enjoying drinks changes to a procession of traction engines around a showground filmed both from the ground and the footplate of one of the engines. The family walk along Bournemouth Pier and climb aboard the ‘Swanage Belle’ for a pleasure cruise around the harbour. The boat gets underway with the family sitting at the front surrounded by other passengers. In the near distance the Bournemouth seafront with hotels on the cliffs above. A small fishing boat passes heading out to sea, in the distance the paddle steamer ‘Bournemouth Queen’. The children smile at the camera and John accidently walks into the Ladies toilet. John and Deborah enjoy lemonade from a bottle drunk through paper straws, Deborah holds a doll in her left hand. A small sailing boat passes as Peter Ellwood enjoys his lemonade swigging it from a bottle. Another boat passes and John looks out on the white chalk cliffs of Old Harry’s Rock. The family make their way to the beach along the East Cliff zigzag path. Peter walks along the sand as his brothers go swimming in the sea. Deborah joins them, they all play happily in the surf while Peter tosses sand into the sea using a spade. In the distance the ‘Bournemouth Queen’ steams past. All four children work together to dig a moat from the sand into the surf, Deborah filling it with seawater from a bucket. As Peter walks in the sand his loose-fitting shorts fall down, his mother washes them in the sea. The family walk along a track through the New Forest passing a sign that reads ‘Knightwood Oak’. They continue their walk with David using his walking stick as a gun pointing it at John in front of him. With David and John at one end and Deborah at the other, Kath stands in the middle of a wooden seesaw. The Knightwood Oak with a fence around it. Each holding a stick like a rifle, David Deborah and John take shelter behind a log and pretend to fire their weapons at the camera. Peter rushes over and joins his siblings. The family continue their woodland walk passing an anthill. They come along a country road with David, Deborah and John walking around a large tree. They cross a meadow passing through two gates opened by John with the help of Deborah. A Foxglove growing on the edge of the path changes to a New Forest pony foal eating grass. It walks away back to its mother as David approaches. Several ponies with their foals walk along a road, a shirtless Ken Ellwood sits on the side of a path flicking through a notepad. John washes his hands in a nearby stream followed by Ken washing his face. Again, David rushes towards a foal laying on nearby grass watched over by its mother. David, Deborah and John race towards the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge and begin climbing over some of the stones. Around them other visitors admiring the site and taking photographs.