This is a series of films put together of the Green family where they lived in and around Clayton, near Bradford. The film begins with Mrs Dorothy Green out walking with her daughters, Shirley, walking, and Moyra ,being pushed in a pram.  Shirley clambers onto a park bench.  Then Shirley is with her cousin Gordon Craven, and hanging out washing.  The two girls and Gordon are then seen with their paternal grandmother (Sarah Jane Green – 83 at the time of Shirley’s birth).  Shirley blows...

This is a series of films put together of the Green family where they lived in and around Clayton, near Bradford. The film begins with Mrs Dorothy Green out walking with her daughters, Shirley, walking, and Moyra ,being pushed in a pram.  Shirley clambers onto a park bench.  Then Shirley is with her cousin Gordon Craven, and hanging out washing.  The two girls and Gordon are then seen with their paternal grandmother (Sarah Jane Green – 83 at the time of Shirley’s birth).  Shirley blows bubbles from a clay pipe, whilst Moyra eats some chocolate, getting it all over her face.  The two of them then play in a sand pit, before moving on to winter when the two of them are out in thick snow.  Dorothy is with her three daughters (Linda has just been born, 23 June 1939).  Then Linda is seen with her godmother, Dorothy Ambler, before they are all filmed with Dorothy. The film switches to Shirley and Moyra playing on a roundabout and on swings, and then rolling on some grass.  Linda is held by her mother. They go for a walk through a country field, with Linda in the pram.  The three girls and mother have a picnic in Sun Wood, Clayton.  Then the paternal grandmother is shown with the three girls.  The grandmother is then seen with her daughter Mona Craven and grandson Gordon, and are joined by Dorothy with her three girls.  Also there is Pauline Craven, daughter of Walter and Gladys Craven.  Pauline goes for a walk in a field with her mother Gladys.  Also there is Jim Holmes, an American cousin on a visit to England with Norman and Kathleen Dean, who were also relatives (Jim Holmes had emigrated to the States with his parents in the early 1900s, working in textiles). At Linda’s birthday party children play in the back garden, with one boy waving a sword. The family are then at the annual Clayton Fair, where the children go on the swings and other rides.  Norman and Kathleen Dean are with Jim Holmes, and the whole family get together to pose for the camera.  The film switches to show their paternal grandmother clearing some deep snow.  The maternal grandfather is also clearing snow from Clayton Church path where he was verger for some years.   Back in summertime, a group of girls pose for the camera.  Moyra is shown jumping off a wall, filmed backwards.  Three adults, possibly Norman and Kathleen Dean and Jim Holmes, are walking along York city walls.  They then go for a drive in their Humber (Reg. SVM 802).  The film ends when they have stopped at a village green, with one of them taking photos. (these notes were composed with the help of notes written by Moyra Sonley)