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A family holiday in 1961

The vintage home movie in this post features a film which appears to have been taken during a family holiday. It's difficult to be precise about the date because the film wasn't in a box or envelop, but I've estimated it to be around 1961.

The family who are in this film have already appeared on vintage home movies playing Christmas Party games.

I think the interest in this video is not in any particular event or place the family is visiting, but the contrast that this scene from a part of everyday life during a family holiday some 50 years ago paints with a similar event today.

For example, no one in this film is using a mobile phone, or could possibly imagine the use of a mobile phone. Most men in the film are wearing jackets and a collar and tie, the women are wearing dresses. There aren't a pair of headphones in sight. How different would a similar scene look today((As the father of two teenage children I can tell you that most young people wouldn't be separated from their phones and headphones ))?

Family Holiday

In terms of the events portrayed in the film they are fairly simple. The family are seen walking about a garden, which we find out is called 'Trianglas Old Vicarage' at Pont-Ar-Hydfer in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. Some members take turns on a swing in the garden and then are seen walking around a fish pond and across a bridge. Towards the end of the film some members of the party arrive at what I assume is their guest house where they are staying.

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