An amateur film produced by Arthur Foreman of a Corpus Christi procession taking place in Middlesbrough started at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral on Sussex Street and ending in the grounds of Newlands Convent School on Saltersgill Avenue. Many groups of both children and adults are filmed slowly marching through the town with the film ending on a Catholic service honouring the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist taking place outside in the grounds of the convent school....

An amateur film produced by Arthur Foreman of a Corpus Christi procession taking place in Middlesbrough started at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Cathedral on Sussex Street and ending in the grounds of Newlands Convent School on Saltersgill Avenue. Many groups of both children and adults are filmed slowly marching through the town with the film ending on a Catholic service honouring the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist taking place outside in the grounds of the convent school. Several groups of boys and girls of various ages march slowly along Sussex Street in Middlesbrough and then along Borough Road. Each group wear distractive unforms or dresses with many of the girls’ wearing veils. Marching in front of many of them are adults carrying banners relating to the specific school, church or organisation they have come from. Accompanying the children several women acting as chaperones along with a priest and several nuns. Walking in single file along Borough Road the procession comes to a stop outside the Evening Gazette offices. After a moment the procession moves off again with girls and boys of various ages filing past the camera. Along the route crowds gather along the pavement watching proceedings. Back on Albert Road more groups of teenage boys and girls pass Middlesbrough High School for Boys turning into Borough Road with one group of girls wearing distinctive red blazers alongside their veils. At the front of the column two of the girls flank a man holding a school banner. As the girls making their way along Borough Road some have to hold onto their veils preventing it from blowing away in the wind. The procession comes to a stop several times along the route. Several more groups of young people, including members of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, parade along Borough Road behind their flags. Following them several groups of well-dressed women as well as nurses in the uniforms who also march slowly behind banners. Again, the groups come to a stop and pause a few seconds before moving off again, many of the women walk with children. In the grounds of Newlands Convent School some of the children’s groups gather on a grass area while back on Borough Road groups of smartly dressed men parade along the road many behind a banner. Following them three lines of altar boys wearing vestments of either black or red with one at the front carrying a large candle. Behind them another group of girls wearing white and red and carrying baskets of flowers and behind them more altar boy one of whom uses a thurible to spread burning incense. Behind them a priest walking under a canopy carrying the Monstrance. In the grounds of Newlands Convent School, the priest carrying the Monstrance comes out from the canopy and places it on an altar built against the side of an exterior wall. A Catholic service for the Eucharist is held watched by a large congregation of the faithful who join the priests in pray. An older priest in red sits at the front, beside him the canopy bearers in district black and white tailcoats with one of them kneeling in front of the altar. With the service over the priests leave followed by the canopy bearers and the film ends on two priests chatting on a nearby bench.