An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of the Broughton Hall Game Fair taking place in the grounds of Broughton Hall near Skipton in North Yorkshire on Sunday, 27th June, 1982. On display at the game fair is the Burrell General Purpose traction engine owned by the filmmaker which is being used to power a threshing machine also on display. Other events taking place at the fair are recorded including a gun dog scurry, a hay bale tossing competition and a world record attempt by Skipton Round...

An amateur film produced by Ken Ellwood of the Broughton Hall Game Fair taking place in the grounds of Broughton Hall near Skipton in North Yorkshire on Sunday, 27th June, 1982. On display at the game fair is the Burrell General Purpose traction engine owned by the filmmaker which is being used to power a threshing machine also on display. Other events taking place at the fair are recorded including a gun dog scurry, a hay bale tossing competition and a world record attempt by Skipton Round Table to cook the world’s largest Yorkshire pudding. In a field a crowd stands behind a rope barrier watching a Burrell General Purpose traction engine power a Foster Lincoln threshing machine. Bundles of wheat or other cereal crop are tossed from a G.F. Denton flatbed lorry to a man standing atop the machine whose job it is to feed the crop into the thresher. At the rear of the thresher a baling machine turning the loose straw into bales. Workmen use pitchforks to move the sheafs of wheat or other cereal from the lorry while other men keep an eye on the threshing machine itself. A crowd watch a gun dog scurry with the owner throwing a ball into Broughton Beck and their dog diving in to retrieve it. On the other side of the beck crowds walking past various marquees set up in the grounds in front of Broughton Hall. Spectators watch as a ‘Burnley Building Society’ hot air balloon attempts to take off changing to a crowd watching as men attempt to throw sack over a high bar in a hay bale tossing competition. Further along Broughton Beck from the gun dog scurry boys cast their fly-fishing lines into the water. A large open-air kitchen and a man in a ‘Broughton Game Show’ t-shirt holding a jacket potato wrapped in tin foil, a second man beside him smiles while holding bank notes in his hand. The hand of an unseen third person holds up a pint glass full of cash. A man in a chef’s hat pours gravy over two large plates of Yorkshire pudding. A sign outside the kitchen tent reads ‘Skipton Round Table World Record Attempt Largest Yorkshire Pudding’ A brass band plays nearby. Back at the threshing machines two men sit atop the Burrell traction engines. Some of the workmen seen earlier now rest against the flatbed lorry chatting. The break over, the thresher is powered up again and a man stands beside the thresher collecting sacks of grain.