An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of the 1970 Skipton Gala which features him on the Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 he owned as well as friend John Ostle at the controls of his Marshall General Purpose Engine 54492 parading through the town. The film also features decorative floats as well as the Skipton Band and the Gilly Law Cavaliers juvenile jazz band parading through the town. Parked on a street three men look over the Marshall steam traction engine owned by John...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of the 1970 Skipton Gala which features him on the Burrell General Purpose traction engine 3918 he owned as well as friend John Ostle at the controls of his Marshall General Purpose Engine 54492 parading through the town. The film also features decorative floats as well as the Skipton Band and the Gilly Law Cavaliers juvenile jazz band parading through the town. Parked on a street three men look over the Marshall steam traction engine owned by John Ostle. Crowds walk along the far pavement making their way towards Skipton town centre, parked behind the engine a double-decker bus and further along the road a second Burrell General Purpose traction engine owned by the filmmaker. With a cigarette hanging from his mouth, John Ostle climbs on the Marshall’s footplate while nearby majorettes from a juvenile jazz band stand ready to take part in a procession. A small boy in a white cap rushes across the road to stand next to the Burrell General Purpose traction engine. At the rear two men, one standing on the footplate, talk. A man leads a pony past two decorated flatbed lorries followed by John Keith Lockyear, Mayor of Skipton, who walks over and speaks with a second man. The Skipton Band march past, their instruments being played. Crowds line the street as the band marches past Trinity Methodist Church. A policeman wonders past various groups standing ready to take part in a procession, the boy in the white cap stands in the footplate of the Burrell traction engine. A man dressed as a lion carries a sandwich board which reads ‘See me at the Classic Junior Club’. Two men on a horse-drawn carriage followed by several decorative floats drive through Skipton town centre. The Gilly Law Cavaliers juvenile jazz band march along the High Street behind their banner, behind them the Skipton Band. At the rear the Marshall and Burrell traction engines travelling slowly along High Street with Ken Ellwood at the controls of the Burrell engine. The Burrell engine passes ‘Laycock’s Antiques’, following behind another brass band marching behind their banner.