This film documents the Brighouse Crippled Children's Outing to St Anne's, June 1938. Noted on the box was that the cost was defrayed by Brighouse Rotary Club. Boutonnieres for the gentlemen, hats and furs for the ladies, all the chaperones wear ribbons on their lapels. The children each have a badge pinned to their lapels. All those heading on the trip get onto the bus, and chaperones are all dressed up. Street scene - the camera pans over the Wesleyan Sunday School on King...

This film documents the Brighouse Crippled Children's Outing to St Anne's, June 1938. Noted on the box was that the cost was defrayed by Brighouse Rotary Club. Boutonnieres for the gentlemen, hats and furs for the ladies, all the chaperones wear ribbons on their lapels. The children each have a badge pinned to their lapels. All those heading on the trip get onto the bus, and chaperones are all dressed up. Street scene - the camera pans over the Wesleyan Sunday School on King Street, Brighouse as the buses turn a corner and drive up the street towards the camera, past the Sunday School. The buses are parked at a petrol station, and the chaperones and children get off the buses and walk about for a bit before getting back on. Two girls run around the chaperones. The Lane Ends Hotel can be seen, and there are signs pointing towards Whalley and Preston. The chaperones and children can be seen crossing the street away from the hotel. Two of the chaperones are walking together, one boy walks with a man in Red Cross uniform. All four link arms and walk on together for a few yards. The camera follows them down a residential street before turning back to the bus. Two more chaperones leave the bus and walk past the camera, down the street. Behind the bus is the silhouette of a factory with two tall chimneys. Inside Bus number 2, all the passengers can be see, but the camerawork is jumpy because the bus is in motion. The camera films the back of bus 1, which is in front, and films though the window as the bus 2 overtakes bus 1. The children in bus 1 wave out the window as bus 2 passes them. Through the back window the camera films the front of bus 1. Seafront, St Anne's - A child and chaperone stand at one side of the screen, only the top half of the child's head is visible, but the child tries to keep in front of the camera as it pans across the beach. The children and chaperones walk across the beach, mostly in one group, but the camera follows the stragglers. From down on the beach the camera films another group of children and chaperones walking along the promenade. They stop and wave at the camera. The group walks along the promenade. One boy stands still and stares at the camera until the others catch up and they walk past. The camera films another group of chaperones and children walking along. Behind them the sea is visible on the left, and on the right a small pavilion, a windmill and rows of houses. On the beach, children play in the swings while another group queues for donkey rides, watched by more children on the promenade. The children ride donkeys up and down the beach, and this is followed by more shots of children on the swings with the promenade behind. At the tennis courts, children and chaperones are grouped around a cage behind the court. This is followed by a closer view of the children looking into the cage. Other children are sitting on benches with the chaperones. The camera sweeps across the gardens behind. From the shore the camera films the children and chaperones journeying out into the harbour in a motorboat. Down by the docks, sailing boats moored long one side of the boat moving through the water and back round towards the shore. The children wave to the camera as they get close. The camera films from the boat as a second group gets a ride round the harbour. The camera films the first group standing on the dock and waving. There are also interior scenes taken on the boat, and on deck children peer over the edge. From a distance the group on the dock can be seen waving as the camera moves along the seafront before filming pulling up alongside the dock. The children are shepherded through a turnstile leading to an outside pool. The pool is surrounded on each side by a sheltered seating area and dressing rooms. Some children enter the pool via a slide, while others stand behind the railing in their coats and watch. One chaperone is sitting chatting to two waitresses while he has a drink. He sees the camera watching him and runs away to the waitresses' amusement. Now in the town square, the group are assembled outside the Palace (Palace Cinema, Garden Street, Lytham St Anne's), cinema and restaurant, which is playing The Broadway Melody of 1938. Here they await the buses. The chaperones and the man in a Red Cross uniform help the children onto the bus. The first bus drives off, and the children wave to the camera and others who remain. The chaperones dole out refreshments to those children not on the bus, and the film ends with a close up of four of the boys.