This is a holiday film which was taken during a Yorkshire Family's cruise leaving from Liverpool, sailing about 3500 miles down to Teneriffe in the Canary Islands, and then the journey back to the UK. This film provides an interesting and unique perspective of travel during the 1930s. Well made and well documented with intertitles, the film includes leisure and entertainment activities aboard the ship as well as glimpses of the native peoples and lifestyles at various stops along the...

This is a holiday film which was taken during a Yorkshire Family's cruise leaving from Liverpool, sailing about 3500 miles down to Teneriffe in the Canary Islands, and then the journey back to the UK. This film provides an interesting and unique perspective of travel during the 1930s. Well made and well documented with intertitles, the film includes leisure and entertainment activities aboard the ship as well as glimpses of the native peoples and lifestyles at various stops along the way providing insight into the life and leisure of Yorkshire people as well as those in other locations along the course of the cruise. The film includes the sites and activities of the following places visited during the cruise: Leaving Liverpool by Tender Lifeboat Drill Diving boys at Madeira Leaving for the Shore Funchal Landscape Gardening at Monte Palace, Madeira Tobogganing in town (local way of transport down the steep town roads) Scenes in Madeira - including the funeral of a child - only men attend funerals Santa Cruz Teneriffe Dragon Tree at La Laguna - supposed to be 1500 years old Santa Cruz Harbour (full of local salesmen) Atalaya Gran Caldera The Graf Zeppelin circles around us at Las Palmas Teror Cathedral Fancy dress night on the ship on the journey home