[Broadstairs and Margate Items]

A compilation of scenes of family and friends, filmed by Enid Briggs in and around Broadstairs. The films include: a visit to the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch miniature railway, outings to Deal and Margate piers, boys on a boating lake; members of the Briggs family and friends in their garden, on the beach (including Enid Briggs herself playing with a dog on the beach), and horse riding.

Hythe Coronation Memories

This film opens with views of Hythe covered in ceremonial bunting and captures local street scenes. The film goes on to show children at a large table; then racing each other in a park and parading in a variety of imaginative period costumes.

[Scenes of Kent Life. Ashford Carnival Week]

An amateur film-maker tours Kent, capturing, in colour, the sights of the county - its settlements and countryside, tourist attractions and community events, transport links and coastline.

Cinque Ports of Britain

This amateur film made by a member of the Independent Association of Cinematographers captures everyday scenes from Cinque Port towns in Kent and East Sussex. Folkestone, Hythe, Dover and Rye are all featured, as well as footage from Canterbury, including the cathedral. The film also includes footage of a journey made on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

Engines in Steam

On the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, several one-third size engines are seen being prepared and travelling along the narrow gauge track. With locomotives including 'Hercules', 'Hurricane' and 'Winston Churchill'. On the Bluebell Railway, daytrippers ride behind locomotives including 'Bluebell', 'Birch Grove' and the Adams Radial Tank.

Family Holiday; [Outings and Christmas Celebrations]

A compilation of family outings and domestic scenes that include visits to a beach (Herne Bay, Kent?), the Penny Pot Public House Waltham, Kent; the Mermaid Inn at Rye, Sussex; a trip to the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway followed by several domestic scenes at the family home, and celebrating Christmas. The film opens and closes with commercial animated titles.

[Building New Library in Hythe]

Building construction and local scenes filmed in 1962. Hythe library is seen; paving slabs are laid below the brick-built exterior, nearly complete. Hythe scenes follow; a rotunda, church, river, punts and bridge and green are seen.

Blanco’s Happy Return

This colour film shows a visit from a family friend (?) Blanco. The group visit various locations including Hastings Pier and seafront and play games in a front garden with a young boy. The group also watch a cricket match in a park when walking the dog, visit Hythe with scenes at Saltwood Castle on the Royal Military Canal, and take a trip on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway.

Snowy Interval

A film of the Maidstone in Kent, shown in all seasons; mixing snowy scenes together with views of Spring gardens at Brenchley with flowers in full bloom, and the building of a new greenhouse in the family garden. Additional scenes show New Hythe railway station with trains passing through and a bus outside indicating the route from Gillingham to Chatham.

Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway

This colour film follows the film-maker on a journey on the Romey, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway, stopping at several stations and junctions, watching the railway engineers move train stock and maintain the engines. The film has music and intertitles throughout.

Life in Miniature

The theme of miniature subjects is expressed in various scenes of miniature attractions including: a merry-go-round and fair ground; a visit to the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway; Eastbourne Electric Tramway; a miniature village showing a sports ground, a train and a castle. The film starts and ends with a toddler sitting on a rug.