A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood that focuses on his grandchildren Emily and George, the children of his daughter Deborah and her husband Christopher Oates. The film begins with he and his wife Kath taking Emily for a walk through the village of Burnsall in North Yorkshire where the three of them make sand castles along the banks of the river Wharfe. Next, in the garden of the Oates family in the village of Newby Wiske George has his photograph taken following his christening. The family...

A home movie produced by Ken Ellwood that focuses on his grandchildren Emily and George, the children of his daughter Deborah and her husband Christopher Oates. The film begins with he and his wife Kath taking Emily for a walk through the village of Burnsall in North Yorkshire where the three of them make sand castles along the banks of the river Wharfe. Next, in the garden of the Oates family in the village of Newby Wiske George has his photograph taken following his christening. The family spend time in the garden of the filmmakers on Tarn Moor Crescent in Skipton along with Deborah’s brothers David, John and Peter. As well as family footage, the film also features the LMS Princess Coronation Class 9228 Duchess of Hamilton passing through Skipton, a de Havilland Tiger Moth aircraft being flown from an airfield near Cambridge and the family going for a walk to the top of Beamsley Beacon. The film ends on the arrival home of Ken’s third grandchild Lizzie. In the village of Bunsall Kath Ellwood walks with her granddaughter Emily along a road passing St Wilfrid’s Church where the clock on the tower reads 2.15pm. They make their way towards the river Wharfe following a path along it to a sandy beach area where they make sandcastles together. Kath takes Emily’s shoes and socks off while nearby Ken Ellwood makes a sandcastle on the edge of the water and building a moat around it. Emily plays with a plastic rake and Ken comes over and joins her. She and Kath sit together along the riverbank, Emily waving happily at the camera before playing with a pair of glasses and watching ducks and ducklings on the water. Kath and Emily walk together past ‘The Manor House’ bed and breakfast. In a garden in the village of Newby Wiske the filmmakers baby grandson George sits in a bouncer. Kath and Emily come into the garden and watch a butterfly fly around several large colourful flowerpots. Ken and Kath’s daughter Deborah appears holding her son George who is wearing a long gown. Kath holder her grandson in her arms. Sitting quietly at the far end of the garden Deborah breastfeeds her son before carrying him back across the lawn placing him on a blue blanket or rug and plays with him. With George still laying on the rug a man begins to take photographs of him lying there. The photo session over George is brought over and sits on a rug with sister Emily, mother, and grandmother. In the filmmaker’s garden at Tarn Moor Crescent in Skipton George, now a toddler, walks around carrying a plastic bucket. Kath takes away the bucket so he can climb a set of stone steps after which she helps him back down the steps and kicks a football around the garden with him. His sister Emily and his mother come over; they all play together with his mother doing a cartwheel on the grass. Emily and George walk with Kath Ellwood and another older woman along Engine Shed Lane at Skipton. As they walk along the road together, they pass a line of rail enthusiasts standing behind a nearby barrier waiting on the arrival of the steam locomotive LMS Princess Coronation Class 9228 Duchess of Hamilton. The children and Kath stand on a pile of cut stone to get a better view, the children collect stones from the ground placing them on a pile of cinder blocks. The enthusiasts, many with cameras, watches as the Duchess of Hamilton steams past. Back in the garden at Tarn Moor Crescent Emily and George help their father and uncle pick fruit from bushes, George is fed one of the berries. On the lawn George sits on a rocking horse watched by his sister and a blond-haired woman. Their uncles play football nearby. Emily and George sit together on the rocking horses. Kath helps George pick more fruit; he eats something else using a spoon. Kath eats one of the berries while sitting in a deckchair. Around a tree the family enjoy a picnic, parked nearby several Rolls Royce cars with visitors looking over them. At an airfield near Cambridge a yellow de Havilland Tiger Moth (Reg: G-AOEI). In the distance a different aircraft comes into land followed by the Tiger Moth picks up speed and taking off into the sky. Back on the ground it taxis of the runway onto a grassy area. Back in the garden at Tarn Moor Crescent Emily and George play around a tent which has been erected there. Their father inside the tent picking up and placing George outside. On a grassy bank Emily and George sit on their grandmothers’ knees, sitting behind them their father. The family go for a walk to the top of Beamsley Beacon with George climbing over rocks to reach the top of a cairn to sit beside his sister. Kath rests against the nearby triangulation station or trigpoint. George and Emily sit at a table enjoying a meal. Emily is eating a bowl of gooseberries and custard, George wearing a clown hat sits eating fish or ham with a spoon. In the garden Emily, her father and uncle play cricket. George comes over to play still wearing his clown hat. Emily and George sit in two cardboard boxes, Emily now wearing the clown hat. As George continues to play in his box, around the garden various coloured roses. Emily returns with a doll and gets into her box. Outside the family home in the village of Newby Wiske Emily and George’s father thrown a paper bird into the air that flitters around before landing on the pavement. George rushes over to collect it. The film changes to a vintage Riley motorcar pulls into the driveway and out of which steps Deborah carrying a new born baby followed by Emily and George. She bends down so that Emily and George can look over baby Lizzie.