The compilation begins with shots of a Catterpillar D2 Compact Crawler Tractor working in muddy conditions dragging felled trees.
This is followed by footage of wintery conditions including paths cut into very deep snow, people playing ice hockey on a pond, a wooded area where the branches are encased in ice and a group of men in the snow preparing for a journey with two horsedrawn carts. The floods resulting from the subsequent thaw is next with torrents of water, flooded roads and damaged road surfaces caused by ice and flooding.
Next is footage of the aftermath of a freight train crash resulting in wagons on their sides and a demolished wooden building (signal box?). There is some evidence of a clear up including a steam crane on rails lifting one of the wagons.
After this a (fox) hunt gathers outside a house with horses, huntsmen and women on horseback and a pack of dogs. Members of the public also add to the throng of activity at the meet and the section ends with closer views of some of those attending.
This is followed by men gathering outside a public toilet and then sit for a group photograph (possibly a Masonic event) after which there is a remembrance day service at Saint John the Baptist's Church in Bishop's Castle involving veterans.
We then leave Shropshire for the seaside and a beach with groynes and two men sitting on a harbour wall.
Back in Bishop's Castle there's a carnival parade. Beginning with Miss Bishops's Castle on a float passing the King's Head on Church Street followed by various floats, including a 'boat' called 'Miss Carnival 1938', people in fancy dress (including three Robbialac Paints advertising characters) and a horse drawn Bishop's Castle Corporation fire engine.
What follows is possibly another carnival including a May pole on a cart, Miss Clunn sitting on top of a car festooned with Union flags and many people in fancy dress. The carnival ends with May pole dancing in a field as well as the judging of the fancy dress competitions.
Next is footage of Haile Selassie meeting dignitaries including Bishop Castle's mayor (dark and a problem with focus).
After this is footage of a covered horse drawn cart being pulled along a road followed by a steam engine being pulled by horses. After this we see threshing of wheat at a farm using a steam thresher which this is followed by a combine harvester at work.
After some shots of a man and a Whitmore Butchers truck we see a parade ascending Bishop Castle's High Street. It is led by a military band and followed by the Boys Brigade, Girl Guides, adults and children and finally by dignataries including the mayor of the town.
A record of a sports day follows including running races for both children and adults as as well as skipping races, egg and spoon races, prize giving, three legged race and a sack race.
Next is an intertitle: 'Fire!!! Where? In everyone's grate but mine. Clun Rural District Fire Brigade Answer the Call 10/4/1938.' What follows is a fire fighter opening the doors of a garage. He is then joined by other fire fighters and eventually the fire engine is driven, very carefully and slowly, out of the garage. It then waits for the senior fire fighter to take his seat next to the driver before it drives off.
The compilation ends with a woman pegging out washing.
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A freight train de-railed at Shrewsbury in 1935. It is possible that the footage of the train crash in this reel is this event.
Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, lived in Bath in the United Kingdom while in exile between 1936 and 1941. During his time in England he visited his friend, Wildred Thesiger at his home in Knighton in Shropshire. It is possible he visited Bishop's Castle during one of these trips. There is a record of Selassie visiting Shrewsbury in 1938.