This is a film showing various places and events in Beverley around 1969.  It includes footage of a a fire, a procession, local wedding, and the launching of the C S Forester. The film begins showing women entering St Mary’s Church.  There are then close ups of some of the architectural features, inside and out, including faces on the church, the stained glass windows and the rabbit said to have inspired the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.  Then a group of men with either red or black caps,...

This is a film showing various places and events in Beverley around 1969.  It includes footage of a a fire, a procession, local wedding, and the launching of the C S Forester. The film begins showing women entering St Mary’s Church.  There are then close ups of some of the architectural features, inside and out, including faces on the church, the stained glass windows and the rabbit said to have inspired the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland.  Then a group of men with either red or black caps, dressed in white cloaks with a red cross and having different insignia, enter the church.  Inside they form an arch with their swords.  There is a view from the top of the church, across the rooftops of Beverley looking towards the Minster, showing the Regal cinema, the bus station, and the Market Square.  Back on the ground, there is a view down a street of old houses.  Traffic goes though the North Gate Bar, and other vantage points of the town are shown.  Fire engines respond to a fire at a restaurant in the town centre.  Parked next to the restaurant is a van for Hewetsons timber treatment.  Smoke pours out of the roof as the firemen run around the back of the building. A wedding is captured, with the newlyweds, in modern clothing, emerging from the Registry Office under a guard of bakers who are holding up bread trays.  Then four men on stilts, on the same road near the Lairgate Hotel, mess about with the passing traffic.  They follow the newlyweds as they walk along the road. There is another view of the Minster from over a single storey new building, and some new flats are shown. The next portion of the film shows the docks where a ship, the C S Forester, is being launched.  As it enters the river sideways, it creates a large wave which soaks the watching crowd on the opposite bank.  Then a woman walks her dog on the Westwood, and some children play football.  Several groups of men fly radio controlled model aircraft, while families look on.  In the Market Square, the market stalls are being erected.  After they have been set up, the stalls are busy with lots of shoppers.  A parade passes, with several horse drawn wagons carrying people in historic costume.  There follows other vehicles, including a traction engine pulling a trailer for L C Byass & Son of Little Weighton and York, members of the Fair Organ Preservation Society. Back on the Westwood there is a group on horseback, silhouetted against the evening sky as it approaches dusk.  And the film comes to an end.