This is part of the collection of films made by Sheffield teacher William Gordon Gregory.  This film is of his family at home and on holiday by a beach. (B&W)  The film begins with a small girl (aged about 3) in a garden with a kitten in a box.  Then two boys (aged about 6 and 11) are playing cricket, also in a garden.  They run through a vegetable patch and are then escorted across the road by their mother, waving to the camera situated in an upstairs room.  In the distance are hills,...

This is part of the collection of films made by Sheffield teacher William Gordon Gregory.  This film is of his family at home and on holiday by a beach. (B&W)  The film begins with a small girl (aged about 3) in a garden with a kitten in a box.  Then two boys (aged about 6 and 11) are playing cricket, also in a garden.  They run through a vegetable patch and are then escorted across the road by their mother, waving to the camera situated in an upstairs room.  In the distance are hills, possibly Rivelin Valley in Sheffield.  In another garden, or part of the garden, an elderly man and a woman inspect the plants.  An Alsatian dog is tied to its kennel.  There is a brief gap before the film returns to show two women and a girl outside a butcher’s shop, H. B. Slann & Son, with another woman looking out from the window.   The woman in the shop comes out to join them, and together they walk towards the camera arm-in-arm.  Then a middle aged couple do likewise. The film switches to show two women walking towards the camera in a garden, followed by an Italian looking couple, with a heavily built man.  The two women play with the Alsatian. (Col.)  There is then a brief underexposed section before the film returns with a couple and a boy in the garden.  Holding a toy gun, the man gets the boy, wearing an ‘S’ belt, to put his hands up.  The family have tea and cake and pose for the camera.  A woman walks through the garden holding the hands of her two sons, followed by the well-built man with the boys and other family members doing likewise. (B&W)  There is then a section of overexposed film, with people on a ship, and a family on a beach.  At the end of the overexposed section a boy is digging in the sand with bucket and spade, whilst a woman stretches out in a deckchair in the sun.  Two other women are sat on the edge of the beach as the waves lap over them.  The boy runs around in front of them. There is another section of overexposed film and we see a group of people boarding a plane. (G-AGZD) – a Douglas DC3 Dakota with BEA.  A man in military uniform poses in front of a car. Two women and a man walk past the same car, now parked in a street with an IPA advertising poster and a horse and cart (H Rogers) on a derelict area of ground. The film switches to on board a navy ship at sea, coming in to dock near a building with what looks like Great Western Southern Railway on it. (Col.)  the film switches back to the beach where the women pose in their swimming costumes before racing into the sea.  Two boys play in the sand while the women lay on their deckchairs.  A man takes a photo of the two women laying on the sand while the waves lap over them.  They then go into the sea, followed by three other women.  The man with the camera larks about with them and the film goes to black and white. (B&W)  The family members walk across the beach towards the camera with Tams Pantry Hotel behind them (possibly Golden Sands, Jersey).  One man is on a canoe, while the women play beach ball and swim in the sea.  The boy collects sea water in a bucket. The film switches again to show the family at what looks like a wedding reception of some kind, with the camera being very wobbly and the film comes to an end.