Welcome to Croydon

The film opens with a banner ‘Welcome to Croydon’. There are street and market scenes with trams and buses passing by. A couple change a flat tyre in a country lane. Scenes of towns in Surrey and Sussex include roadside picnics, motorcycles and sidecars, and views from Box Hill. Views at Birling Gap are followed by the group on the beach at Ryde and Shanklin where they play cricket. Various picnic scenes follow, and the film ends with views of the Brooklands race track.

[Family Scenes: Seaside]

This short amateur film from the 1930s features Harry Guermonprez, co-founder of the Bognor Regis Film Society and members of his family on the beach at Bognor Regis and on holiday on the Isle of Wight apple picking.

Barry’s Babyhood

This black and white edited family film starts with an opening title: “City of Hereford” (the name of a pub in Kemp Town) and an intertitle: "Believe it or not - the life history of Barry Oliver Hilson.” The film documents life events for Barry Hilson, followed by a series of test shots and titles created during the production of the film, but not used in the final cut.

Yacht Racing in the Solent

This film shows Q-class, X-class, 8-Metre and and J-class yachts - Endeavour, Yankee and Iyruna at full sail on the Solent.

[Naval Review and Cowes: The Late King at Portsmouth on his Way to the Naval Review]

A film documenting the King's visit to a Naval Review at Portsmouth, with street scenes outside the Majestic Picture House Cinema. The second film shows scenes of the Jubilee Regatta at Cowes, with mixed class sailing yachts and naval vessels.

[At the Seaside; Sports; Races; Winter]

Scenes filmed during the early years of amateur film-maker Kenneth Woolsey and his wife Constance, on holiday to the Isle of Wight with friends and at his parents' house in Shirley, near Croydon in Surrey.

[Cowes; Camper and Nicholsons Ltd; Ratsey and Lapthorn Ltd]

This black and white film provides highlights and views of races at Cowes with several class of yacht including 'J', 'W' and 6-metre classes, along with views of the Camper & Nicholsons Shipyard and Ratsey and Lapthorn Ltd sail making company on the dockyard at Gosport, near Southampton.

[Arundel; Shoreham; Southsea; Isle of Wight]

This colour and black and white film show views of Arundel village and castle. Internal shots of the castle and grounds are shown in detail. The film then shows a miniature railway in Southsea, and paddle steamers on the Isle of Wight followed by a tour around the coast of the Isle of Wight, including Sandown and Shanklin piers, The Needles and lighthouse.

[Weddings and Holidays]

Scenes of newly wedded couples outside churches in a haze of confetti and holidays in the Isle of Wight and Somerset, filmed and compiled by Mr. Lambert.