This is a film made by an amateur filmmaker from Sheffield, Jean Gray, of her daughter, Julie, from the age of three until her working as a nursery nurse in London. Title – This is your life Julie Gray The title is written on a book which is opened to reveal a photo of Julie as a baby, and then Julie is seen on cine film as she is then, aged 3.  She sits in the garden at a miniature piano and then pushes a small pram with her doll in it.  She carries a satchel and then goes on a swing.  Later...

This is a film made by an amateur filmmaker from Sheffield, Jean Gray, of her daughter, Julie, from the age of three until her working as a nursery nurse in London. Title – This is your life Julie Gray The title is written on a book which is opened to reveal a photo of Julie as a baby, and then Julie is seen on cine film as she is then, aged 3.  She sits in the garden at a miniature piano and then pushes a small pram with her doll in it.  She carries a satchel and then goes on a swing.  Later Julie plays in a large cardboard box for Kellogg’s All Bran.  They visit Sheffield’s Botanical Gardens, and Julie wanders around the Gardens.  They walk down to a stream in some woods where there are some rapids.  Then she is on a park swing. Intertitle – Julie four years old today Julie gets given a letter by the postman which she opens to reveal a birthday card.  She is watched by her brother Peter.  She puts it with her other birthday cards placed on top of the bookcase.  In front of the coal fire Julie’s mother helps her to piece together the pictures that she has received as a present.  She then sits in a playhouse with her small friends before they at sit around a table for cake and other birthday treats.  Julie blows out the candles, and all the children gather around a table to watch a car go around an electronic circuit.  They then play with balloons before three girls do some country dancing for all those watching. In the garden Julie plays with a water hose and hangs out some washing.  She plays in a small water pool and skips around the garden.  Indoors she sits and looks at a photographic album. Intertitle – Learning to be a ballerina Julie and her friend, each in their ballerina costume, do some ballerina exercises and then some dancing dressed in theatre costumes.  Later she stands behind a bush and walks with her brother and father around a greenhouse.   A year or two later, she plays with her doll with her friend.  She then poses for photographs in the garden wearing various different costumes. The film switches to a schools sports day, where Julie has entered the children’s fancy dress competition.  Parents watch a girls egg and spoon race.  This is followed by the boys and girls doing a three-legged race, a sack race, skipping races, all taking place on a sports field overlooking a valley.  There are also races involving going through hula-hoops and a sprint race which Julie wins. The film switches to a year or two later, with Julie putting on her school tie and cap and posing for the camera.  She then puts on her school coat, standing in front of the gas fire.  She makes her way away from the house carrying a satchel. Intertitle – You grow up. Julie looks at an album of photographs of herself. Intertitle – Then comes college There are photos of St Christopher’s College, Tunbridge Wells, for October 1972, and of Julie in a nurse’s uniform and holding a baby.  There is also one of Julie with a man and the inscription, N.N.E.B. [National Nursery Examination Board Diploma in Nursery Nursing]. Intertitle – And so to Work . . . with Jenny. . and Jane  [with a picture of them both] There are cards for a 21st birthday, and presents on display, including a camera, a photographic album and a watch.  Her friends and family are gathered at a birthday party.  A woman, Julie’s mother, prepares some party food which they sit around and eat.  Julie breaks into song whilst sitting on the stairs, followed by a young bearded man, her brother Peter.  Julie gets quite emotional before cutting the birthday cake.  She gets a birthday kiss from her father.  A group of her friends sit chatting underneath a picture of the Beatles in their Sergeant Pepper days.  Then then have a dance as they all continue to enjoy the festivities.   The film switches to show Julie in her nurse’s uniform on a roof of a building.  They are next seen on the Embankment in London, getting onto the Old Caledonian boat pub.  Then they, Julie, her father and Peter, are walking by the boating lake in Regent’s Park where they sit.  Then there is the road sign for Southlands Hospital, where Julie is seen in her nurse’s uniform.  This is followed by the road sign for Seldon Road, where Julie waves from a window.   She comes out and walks across to the camera.  Then there is the number plate of a red mini car (Reg. YWB 725M), with Julie holding up the car keys and getting into it.