This is film of the Yorkshire County cricket team’s tour to Jamaica in February and March, 1936.  The first part of the film is of the team on board their ship playing various games, including a hand ball tournament on the deck, showing some of the rounds with Sutcliffe, Verity, Wood, Bowes, George Hirst, Fisher, and Leyland.  Also included is some action from the game vs. combined schools at Sabina Park, and some practising, and a tour of a sugar cane plantation.  It states on the reel,...

This is film of the Yorkshire County cricket team’s tour to Jamaica in February and March, 1936.  The first part of the film is of the team on board their ship playing various games, including a hand ball tournament on the deck, showing some of the rounds with Sutcliffe, Verity, Wood, Bowes, George Hirst, Fisher, and Leyland.  Also included is some action from the game vs. combined schools at Sabina Park, and some practising, and a tour of a sugar cane plantation.  It states on the reel, E.J.W. Popplewell, who is expected to be the filmmaker. Title – With Our Yorkshire Cricket Team to Jamaica Title – Not cricket weather yet, but must use a ball. Members of the cricketing party are on deck on their overcoats throwing a ball, with a section filming them going backwards. Title – Six tennis balls were soon in the sea. More of the game is filmed.   Title – Nothing but sea for 13 days. There is a shot of the sea looking out from the front of the ship. Title – Exercise with the medicine ball. Three men stand throwing a medicine ball to each other. Title – In spite of wind and sea the game proceeds. There is a game of deck tennis, involving throwing a ring over a net for the opponent to catch, or not. Title – Robinson and Wood entertain the company. Several people are sat on deckchairs with one man playing the banjo while the other sings. Title – Deck games and competitions, first practice. More of the games are shown.     Title – Weather improving.  White now appears.  In a game of mixed doubles one of the players is a woman dressed all in white. Title – Deck competitions start in real earnest. Men, including Bill Bowes, play another game.  There are games of singles and doubles.  Four people, two men and two women stand close to each other skipping, with Bill Bowes using the skipping rope. Title – Lifebelt and boat drill. All the passengers are lined up on deck with their life vests on.  The crew carry’s out the safety drill.   Title – Our skipper takes a hand. There are more games, while some relax on deck. Title – Sutcliffe v. Verity … a keen match. Some of their game is filmed.  They throw a ring over tennis net, and others on the deck play shuffleboard. Title – Wood v. Bowes, but length beats agility. More of the game is shown. Title – Sutcliffe meets Bowes in the semi-final but length again wins. Again, the game is shown. Title – Leyland gets down to it. Leyland lies down on the deck to watch the game. Title – George Hirst and Fisher are feeling better now. Two men are seated watching a match.  (Dufay colour)  Members of the party are relaxing on deck and larking about. Title – Arthur Wood chats with a coloured Missionary, Canon Lennon. (Dufay colour) Canon Lennon sits reading a book with his wife.  They are joined by Wood and his wife, and they have a joke. Title – FINAL OF THE MEN’S SINGLES.  Bowes v. Popplewell.  Notice the slow motion. Part of the game is shown, with some in slow motion. Title – It is now calm enough for a swim.  Wood and Smailes begin.  Others follow. Some of the party swim in the small swimming board on deck. Title – The team enjoys a swim. They are joined by more swimmers, men and women, with some larking about. Title – Early in the morning we arrive at Kingston. There are shots of the small harbour. Title – Kingston Harbour. They arrive in the harbour. Title – Welcome to Jamaica. They are greeted by a sizable crowd of Jamaicans. Title – Soon at practice.  Sabina Park. They have some bowling practice, with some local onlookers. Title – Long field catching practice. Members of the team practice. Title – The first match.  Combined schools take to the field. There is film of some of the action, with Bill Bowes bowling. Title – Also Leyland. More film of cricketing action. Title – Welcome Drinks. Teenage male wait staff bring refreshments out onto the field for the players.   Title – Visiting the sugar cane factory. A man sorts sugar cane, and more of the plantation can be seen. Title – The engine here was made by Fowlers, of Leeds.  The oxen are home produced. Both the small steam locomotive and oxen are shown pulling small wagons loaded with sugar cane. Title – Cutting the canes. Plantation workers cut the sugar cane by hand. Title – Cocoa-nut milk makes a cool drink. A worker climbs up a coconut tree and chops up a coconut he has brought down. Title – End of part I.  A personal interlude. Two men dive into a large open air swimming pool and have a swim.  The film switches back to a cricket match. Players make their way onto the pitch, and the local team poses for a photograph – possibly Jamaica Next. Title – Notice the beautiful surroundings. Mountainous surroundings can be seen as the cricket match is filmed.  Title – Another day’s Practice. The Yorkshire team practises while a couple of Jamaicans perform some tricks.  Title – We remove to Constant Springs Hotel. (colour) Exterior shots of the hotel. Title – Bread Fruit Trees taken by the way side. (colour) Shots of the trees. Title – Native transport. (colour) There is a donkey and cart, and locals carry goods balanced on their heads. Title – See how they grow … the three stages. (colour)  Shots of the rows of trees, and one of the cricketers takes some photographs.   (B&W)  The trees are being chopped down.   Title – Round the plantation. Oxen pull carts laden with the chopped down trees, and then we see large barrels being loaded onto a trailer.  There is a sign:  Innswood Estate To Factory.  Sign:  The Home of Charley’s Rum.  A car makes its way up the long drive of the estate.   Title – Domestic work ideally situated. A woman irons outside under a tree. Title – Notice the tree fern, what a size it grows in the garden also the beautiful flowers. (colour)  The ferns are shown, and the Yorkshire captain, Brian Sellers, stands nearby.  There are close-up shots of the flowers followed by exterior shots of the hotel.   Title – Another day we visit the Blue Mountain coffee plantation. (B&W)  The steep, mountainous landscape is shown. Title – 4000 feet up on a mule back. They saddle up on mules and set off, with .the locals carrying the supplies.  Brian Sellers stands next to a sign for ‘Moy Hall Estates Arntully’, and views the surrounding scenery form high up.  There are some banana trees.  The film then switches back to the deck of the ship as they make their way back to England, where they have a game of cricket on deck. Title – Back home again. There is a view across to the viaduct at Arnside across the River Kent in Cumbria, followed by a beautiful sunset.