Filmed predominately in and around the Lake District in Cumbria, a promotional film produced for the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) of England and Wales extoling the virtues of hostelling for young people. Focusing heavily on communal life the film follows groups of young people who stay at YHA hostel following an adventurous day in the countryside hiking, cycling, canoeing and rock climbing. While at the hostel they enjoy an evening of singing and dancing and following a good night’s rest...

Filmed predominately in and around the Lake District in Cumbria, a promotional film produced for the Youth Hostels Association (YHA) of England and Wales extoling the virtues of hostelling for young people. Focusing heavily on communal life the film follows groups of young people who stay at YHA hostel following an adventurous day in the countryside hiking, cycling, canoeing and rock climbing. While at the hostel they enjoy an evening of singing and dancing and following a good night’s rest work together to clean the hostel before departing for another day in the countryside. Title: Where All Ways Meet Photographed and produced for the Youth Hostels Association (England and Wales) Credit: by W. Cowen of Keswick Script and commentary devised and written by Peter B. Walker of Beverley. Narrator Wynford Vaughan-Thomas A montage of rural imagery filmed in and around the Lake District featuring sheep in a field, a swan and her cygnets on a pond and two horse-drawn traditional gypsy caravans travelling along a country road. On a beach waves gently splash onto the sand while on the cliffs above a man looks out to sea. A shepherd herds his sheep along a country road changes to a young man carefully traversing a cliff face while rock climbing, his partner watches from above holding the safety rope. At the base the men wrap up their ropes and head down the path towards a group of other young men and women who have also been rock climbing. A car and caravan pass along a country road as a couple on a tandem bicycle turn off the main road onto a small byway. They travel along the road before getting off and pushing their bike up a steeper section. Seeing fruit in a bush the woman stops and begins picking them. On a river another couple in a canoe, the man slowly paddling through the water. They pass a family enjoying a picnic along the riverbank with one of the three boys in the family holding a rod fishing. They continue the leisurely journey along the waterway. A man lays on the ground looking through binoculars at a Thrush feeds her chicks in a nest built in a tree. The couple in the canoe pull up and climb out onto a riverbank working together to lift and move the boat for the night. As the couple collect their things and make their way towards a nearby YHA hostels, a group of four hikers also make their way along a road towards the hostel. The birdwatcher gets up and remembers to light his pipe before moving off. Another group of hikers look at a map beside a drystone wall, a female hike amongst their group adjusts her boots. More hikers appear and walk past plus the couple seen previously on the tandem bicycle. The boots adjusted the woman gets to her feet, collects her backpack from one of her companions and the group continues the journey towards the hostel. A large crowd of walker now makes their way along the track towards the YHA hostel, but it is the couple on the tandem who arrive first. Another couple in the courtyard of the hostel stand chatting as the couple gets of their bikes. Exterior views of the hostel itself which, the commentator says, was a former farmhouse. As a woman looks out of a hostel window to speak with a man standing there, a farmer in field at the controls of a horse-drawn rake. Two older men stand chatting while nearby several younger man work together using folks to lift bundles of straw or hay onto the back of a wagon. A farm with chickens wondering through the yard changes to more hikers and cyclists arriving at the hostel passing those already there sitting on a nearby wall relaxing. A group picks up their rucksacks as the hostel warden opens the door to let them in, amongst the group the couple from the canoe with the woman leaning the paddle against the hostel wall before heading inside. A man walks past a Tudor style building in a town or village changes to a watermill and a man nearby fishing with his dog. On the water two couples in rowing boats changes to a montage of various YHA hostel that includes a barn with thatched roof, a castle at Saint Briavels in Gloucestershire and a former lifeboat house at Port Eynon in Wales. At Port Eynon a family walk along the shoreline of the beach while a group of young hikers make ready for a day of walking. A man stands in the doorway of a cottage, another hostel that over looks a beach below. All YHA properties are distinguished by the green triangle sign outside. A National Trust sign for Honister changes to a nearby YHA hostel which, according to the commentator, has been specially designed for country lovers. Outside two women attempt to feed sheep grazing . At the former shepherd’s bothy known as YHA Black Sail washing hangs drying on a line change to another larger hostel and a group standing outside. Again, a large YHA green triangle hangs above a stone entranceway. Inside a hostel a warden checks in his guests making each of them signs the hostel host or guest book and to stamp their YHA members cards. At the back of the queue the two rock climbers seen at the start of the film. In the dinning room the warden serves tea to a group of visitors sitting around a table, in the kitchen another guest makes his own meal frying bacon, eggs and tomatoes on a small gas stove. A cyclist puts away his bicycle for the night and a woman making her bed changes to guests gathering in the common room where a everyone takes part in group activities of singing and dancing. Now thirsty cups of tea are served, a young man goes around with a bowl of sugar adding spoonsful for those who want it. More singing and dancing follow until bedtime and a couple saying goodnight to each other on the stairs before heading to either their respective dormitories. A young woman asleep in her bed. The following morning three men make their way to the washhouse and a man shaving himself outside in the sunshine. In the kitchen a woman washes up the breakfast things, a man comes over with more plates putting them into the other sink beside her. Outside five guests sit around a bucket peeling potatoes while nearby other cut wood for the fire. Back in the kitchen two women laugh as they wash some towels in the sink while in the common room the floor is swept, and the table cleared away. Jobs completed guests begin to leave the hostel collecting their stamped membership cards from the warden at the reception desk. Outside backpacks and bicycles are checked as the couple with the canoe remember to pick up their ore as they depart accompanied by the birdwatcher and two other walkers whom they say goodbye to at a field gate. A church bell rings as the vicar makes his way inside for Sunday service followed behind by his parishioners. The couple and the birdwatcher go their separate ways as the couple decide to attend the service heading into the church. The film ends on a montage of mountain views, cyclists and the rock climbers seen previously ascending another rockface. The sequence ends with the sun setting and a young man getting of a bus and walking home. Inside he removes his walking shoes and places his wallet containing his YHA membership card onto a dressing table beside him End title: The end