A home movie produced by Clem Jacobson featuring two family holidays beginning with a trip to Amble on the Northumberland coast in 1953 and then a bicycling holiday around Upper Teesdale in County Durham in 1954. On both occasions they are joined by family friends and the film uses also uses several ‘staged’ sequences for comedic effect. The film also features the Jacobson’s at or around their home in the village of Wylam in Northumberland and ends with a neighbour’s child throwing sweets...

A home movie produced by Clem Jacobson featuring two family holidays beginning with a trip to Amble on the Northumberland coast in 1953 and then a bicycling holiday around Upper Teesdale in County Durham in 1954. On both occasions they are joined by family friends and the film uses also uses several ‘staged’ sequences for comedic effect. The film also features the Jacobson’s at or around their home in the village of Wylam in Northumberland and ends with a neighbour’s child throwing sweets into the street which are then picked up by the village children. In a living room in front of a large bay window a group raised their glasses in a toast. Title: Amble Adventure. A Jacobson-Welch Production Members of the Jacobson and Welsh families leave the Jacobson’s property on Algernon Terrace in Wylam. In the doorway of the house next door stands Joe and Lizzie Denney, parents of Ellen Jacobson, who wave at everyone as they pass. At the rear comes Leslie Welsh carrying everyone’s suitcases and finally Clem Jacobson who closes and locks his front door before clapping his hands in glee. As the group make their way along Algernon Terrace towards the railway station Ellen turns and waves once more at her parents. At South Wylam railway station a passenger steam locomotive pulls into the platform where a crowd of passengers stands waiting to board. At North Wylam station the holiday party make their way to a waiting carriage before boarding. The train departs South Wylam station heading off into the distance changes to the Jacobson’s and Welsh’s gets off the train. On the beach at Amble in Northumberland members of the Jacobson family splash around in the surf with members of both the Welch as well as a third family, the Hunt’s. For comic effect Mr Hunt walks down to join his family in the sea but turns and limping back up the beach apparently afraid of the water. Clem Jacobson stands in the surf while Mrs Hunt lays the water allowing the waves to splash over her. Members of the group stands along the banks of the river Coquet at Walkworth as the Hunt and Welsh families cast of in rowing boats heading out into the water. Two young girls row past in their boat changes to Ellen Jacobson feeding swans that are following him in her rowing boat. Back on Amble beach a man standing in the surf holds a young girl in his arms. Nearby a woman walks along the shoreline with two small girls. A second man wades through the sea speaking with the person behind the camera. He dives into the water before washing his face with sea water. Two boys standing on the shoreline look out to sea before playing around in the surf. The families sit behind a windbreak quickly changing to two young girls racing along the beach into the sea. At a caravan site near the beach at Amble Ellen Jacobson stands in the doorway of her caravan banging a pot with a wooden spoon, sitting in deckchairs next to her Leslie Welsh and Mr Hunt. All the Jacobson, Welsh and Hunt children come racing out of the dunes heading into the caravan followed by the adults. Standing atop a large steep dune the children jump down into the sand, watching them is Mr Hunt who rather than jumping down from the dune is filmed backwards jumping back up. At the bow of a small fishing boat travelling towards Coquet Island the children and Ellen Jacobson sit staring at the camera. One of the families travels the last part of the journey in a rowing boat carefully climbing out onto the island itself. On bicycles the families ride past through a farm gate near the village of Whitchester in Northumberland before sitting on a grass verge to enjoy a picnic lunch. One of the men looks out across a field speaking with the person behind the camera. In the village of Stamfordham the adults enter the Swinburne Arms public house [Out of focus] Inside two of the women sit at a table beside a window enjoying their drinks. Back on Algernon Terrace in Wylam Ellen and John Jacobson ride their bicycles along the pavement come to a stop outside their home. John’s sister Gwen rides up behind them waving her arm before pretending to hit them. The film changes to all three laying on the ground following by them getting to their feet with a smile. John rubs his head. [Dark] Inside the family home Ellen and Gwen sit reading, John appears and all three are filmed holding and stroking the family cat. As part of a bicycling holiday to Upper Teesdale the fast-flowing waters of the river Tees crash over High Force Waterfall with John, Gwen and Ellen Jacobson standing around the base. At the top of the waterfall other members of the group pretend to through one of the boys into the water. Outside Langdon Beck Youth Hostel five members of the group head off on their bicycles. Ellen and Gwen Jacobson walking along a woodland path towards the waterfall at Hareshaw Lynn near Bellingham in Northumberland. General views of the surrounding landscape. Back on Algernon Terrace a neighbour of the Jacobson’s in her front garden beside her son whom she is holding as he stands on the garden wall looking over a metal fence. A group of children rush over and hand the boy a box of sweets which he proceeds to throw the content into the air. The child laugh and smile as they pick up the sweets scattered over the pavement.