This is film of five events in Horsforth, West Yorkshire. There are two in 1931 – a carnival procession and a Whitsuntide Festival; and three in 1933 – a British Legion event with the Earl of Harewood, a commemoration for victims of the Great War and another Whitsuntide Festival. Title – Mr Herbert Hodgson presents “Snap-shots” Woodside Comic Cricket Match Carnival 1931 – The Procession The film begins with two men and a woman walking in fancy dress past some terraced housing, with women...

This is film of five events in Horsforth, West Yorkshire. There are two in 1931 – a carnival procession and a Whitsuntide Festival; and three in 1933 – a British Legion event with the Earl of Harewood, a commemoration for victims of the Great War and another Whitsuntide Festival. Title – Mr Herbert Hodgson presents “Snap-shots” Woodside Comic Cricket Match Carnival 1931 – The Procession The film begins with two men and a woman walking in fancy dress past some terraced housing, with women standing, watching from their doorsteps.  Then the procession follows, headed by a marching band.  Following the band are children in fancy dress, and the procession passes in front of a sweet shop.  Next there is a line of horse drawn floats, carrying children, also in fancy dress.  One of them is appealing for donations to a hospital fund, others are promoting the Co-op diary, a local baker and one states “Remember the Nurses”, which is followed by a man riding a motorcycle and sidecar, with a girl in the sidecar.  There are close up shots of the locals watching the procession. Intertitle – Horsforth Sunday Schools Whitsuntide Festival 1931 Featuring Primitive Methodists, Salvationists, St Margaret’s, Crag Hill Baptists and the crowd. The procession makes its way past a line of shops, and stops in front of a woman playing the piano and a man waving a conductor’s baton.  The procession heads off again, headed by the Salvation Army, followed by clergy and children.  Again they stop for some singing, this time outside the Black Bull Inn, with “Bowling Green” written above the window.  They then go into Horsforth Hall Park and gather outside the Hall.  Here they are treated to a display of country dancing by girls.  They are then shown walking away from the park bandstand.  A woman, and several dignitaries, each have a go at teeing off with a golf ball.  Some women pose for the camera, with St Margaret’s Church in the background.  People are strolling around the park, which is seen from several vantage points. Intertitle – British Legion (Horsforth Branch) Presentation of Standard by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Harewood, K.G., D.S.O., July 1st 1933. Photographed by Herbert Hodgson, M.P.S., M.I.C.O., (Lond.), Chemist-Optician, and Photographic dealer, Long Row, Horsforth. A procession makes its way through the village, with veterans displaying their medals, a band, the scouts, the cubs, a lorry for Scott’s coal, children in fancy dress, and lorry for Kayll and Co., of Leeds, Grimsby and Halifax.  They arrive in the park, where there are tents and stalls.  The veterans line up for an inspection by the Earl of Harewood, Henry Lascelles.  They then march past the Earl, who is stood on a platform, followed by the Girl Guides and Brownies.        Intertitle – Lest we forget.  A group of soldiers still under treatment for wounds received during the “Great War”. A group of people pose for the camera.  The film switches to inside (dark), where several men are standing, before opening a door and raising their hats. Then back outside where someone is putting a flag pole into the ground next to a new single storied building, watched by a small crowd – possibly the opening of a new building. Intertitle – Whitsuntide, 1933.  St James’s Church, Woodside, Horsforth.  Sunday School Festival. A procession of small girls, all dressed in white, and boys, with the Sunday School banner in the lead, make their way around the church, followed by women and men.  There are then various races, and skipping performed in the grounds of the church as the film comes to an end.