Part of the Wilkinson collection, this is a film of the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Ada and Reece at Beighton Miners Welfare Club, with several recitals including one by the Miners' choir. In the Methodist Chapel Hall in Beighton guests are seated watching as Ada leads her husband Reece, who is blind, to a table to receive a card and cakes in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. The video is being made to send to their son in Australia. Mrs Wilkinson is presiding over the...

Part of the Wilkinson collection, this is a film of the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Ada and Reece at Beighton Miners Welfare Club, with several recitals including one by the Miners' choir. In the Methodist Chapel Hall in Beighton guests are seated watching as Ada leads her husband Reece, who is blind, to a table to receive a card and cakes in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. The video is being made to send to their son in Australia. Mrs Wilkinson is presiding over the occasion and she puts on some music, 'The Anniversary Waltz', for the couple to dance to. They are joined by others on the dance floor. The Beighton Miners Welfare Club and Institute, where Reece is a member of the choir, is being filmed from across the busy High Street in Beighton. Inside the all-male choir is practicing, singing 'The rhythm of life is a powerful beat', with a woman playing the piano accompaniment. The choir then sing another song, 'We are going to build a mountain', this time seated, watched by an audience of mainly women. On a table a large buffet is laid out. After a short break they break into song again, with 'Wandering the King's Highway', stopping half way for the conductor to give some instructions. Afterwards the conductor stands up at the front and announces that they are here to celebrate Reece and Ada's Golden Wedding anniversary, which was last Saturday on the 12th August. He presents the couple with a bouquet of flowers and a bottle. Reece thanks Jean and those who have made the buffet, and they set too to eat. Mrs Wilkinson chats with a couple of the guests, including Mrs Scott, Reece's neighbour. Ken goes around filming the guests as they chat, eat and drink. Then three men, one playing a guitar, sing a comical version of 'There Is Nothin' Like A Dame'. This is followed by another guest, Arthur, who recites a couple of Stanley Holloway comical monologues: Sam's Parrot and Sam's Sturgeon. He then recites the Weston and Lee poem 'Yorkshire Pudden' (also performed by Stanley Holloway). The choir then sing 'Pedro the Fisherman' and the film comes to an end.