Sheep shearing and a visit by children from Hessle School are the main focuses of this amateur film produced by farmers wife Bernice Ward on her and husband Eric’s farm Thirkleby Warren near West Lutton in North Yorkshire between April and December 1961, The film also features Beatrice’s involvement with the Federation of Women’s Institute where she help set up and run a marquee of decorative flowers at the Southport Flower Show. Several large metal posts sticking out of the ground changes...

Sheep shearing and a visit by children from Hessle School are the main focuses of this amateur film produced by farmers wife Bernice Ward on her and husband Eric’s farm Thirkleby Warren near West Lutton in North Yorkshire between April and December 1961, The film also features Beatrice’s involvement with the Federation of Women’s Institute where she help set up and run a marquee of decorative flowers at the Southport Flower Show. Several large metal posts sticking out of the ground changes to a barn where men are working to shear sheep using electric clippers. Watched by another one man shears a sheep possibly for the benefit of the camera. He moves onto shear several sheep with their fleeces being folded and stored nearby. A group of school children wonder through the farmyard changes to the teacher takes a photograph of them sitting on the back of two trailers attached to a tractor. Everyone waves as the teacher climbs aboard and are driven away. The trailers with the children still sitting on them are parked in a field is followed by the children coming through a farm gate. Two tractors pulling a total of five trailers all full of school children returns to the farm where buses are parked. Some of the children go running and playing in a field. Several fields full of sheep grazing changes to people standing around along a rivers edge. More sheep wondering across moorland hillsides. The tractors pulling the school children ride past, those onboard wave at the camera as they pass. Decorative flowerbeds in a garden with small birds feeding on the lawn changes to a field of hay and a tractor pulling a hay-turner turning it. Another tractor pulls a baler which collects up the turned hay and turns them into bales. At the rear a man collects the bales and stacks them on a platform which is also being pulled along by the tractor. In a field a Federation of Women’s Institute marquee with a group of women sitting outside of it. A wooden hut and inside women working changes to displays of flowers inside a marquee. On a table a decorative glass bowl with a certificate beside it. A religious display enhanced by colourful flowers changes to crowds looking around at the various flower displays. Back on the farm a crowd of people stand looking over a wall changes to views of Robin Hoods Bay, the North Sea and surrounding landscape. More flowers on display inside the marquee with large crowds walking past admiring them. The leaves on a large tree in a field sway in the wind, nearby partridges feeding in a field. Standing in the shadow of a hedge a collection of stooks, in the same field a man works to create a line of more stooks. General views of fields of wheat of other cereal crop and a combine-harvester working one of them in the distance. A combine-harvester is driven along a track, changes to a Jersey calf watching as the harvester unloads its corn into a truck. Two wagons parked in a field, one full of grain the other crates. A man stands beside it. The combine-harvester continues to harvest a crop and once again unloads its cargo into a waiting wagon. The farmer helps spread the corn around in the wagon making sure it is as full as can be. Two men stands near to the harvester, one of them holds out a handful of grain to the camera. Cattle race across a field changes to views of the farmhouse and yard where a large group of people have gathered. A group of children ride past on a tractor-trailer and wave as they pass. The film ends on a wintery scene with ducks waddling around a frozen pond.