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Uxbridge May Carnival

The carnival parade is filmed from a fixed, elevated position on the High Street, Uxbridge, opposite the shop 'Brownie' - rope spinners and cloth manufacturers and The Commercial Inn. Flags and bunting are flying from the buildings and spectators line the pavements. Two men on horseback lead the parade, followed by a uniformed marching band, a motorised fire engine with uniformed firemen on top and a man dressed as a baby pushed in a pram. The road is cobbled and there are tram tracks in it.

Many horse-drawn floats, traps and carriages follow, including Benskin's Ales & Stout. Some carriages are pulled by three horses and some by one. The horses are a mixture of shires and non shire horses. Some of the carriages are carrying or are draped in Union Jack Flags.

The longer motorised section of the parade begins, involving cars, lorries, and a motorbike with sidecar. Adams Denham Ltd, at Denham Lodge, New Denham Uxbridge, has three prominent floats, decked out in wreaths and garlands. Their lorrie carry signs saying; A Charming Bungalow, Anything in Concrete, and Municipal Plant. Other vehicles advertise Foyer's Stores, C. Sherwin's Dairy, Spratts Dog Cakes, Chivers, Sharp's Toffee and Crooks & Brown Haulage Contractors - 'cars & lorries bought, sold & repaired' and Randalls Furnishing Stores. At one point a policeman walks down the line of parade vehicles. The vehicles are really elaborately decorated and several seem to depict colonial scenes/scenarios.

The scene changes to a rural road where the stationary Crook & Brown lorry is filmed from two views, with men standing by it or on it. Uxbridge shops are filmed, with the owners or staff standing outside. Pedestrians wander past and a woman with a bicycle with high handlebars. The shops are: Gumbrell & Son, grocer and provision merchants. There are signs in the window for Carnation Milk and 'The Modern Milk Man'. Chequers Commercial Inn, advertising 'Teas', Blackwell Bros, bakers and confectioners, with a sign in the front saying,' Pascall, Sweets and Chocolates'. Blackwell Bros, bakers and confectioners, 5 Windsor Street, Carrick and Coles, drapers and outfitters, Percy C. How, Drapers, J.S. Cavy & Son, stationers and importers, The Little Gem, sweetshop, that is advertising 'R.Whites Mineral Waters and Lemonade', 'Rowntrees Chocolates and Pastilles, 'Pascall Chocolates' and William A. Coad, drapers. Outside of Coads there are a group of nurses posing for the camera .

The streets are full of people in Edwarian attire, both formal and informal; uniforms, long and short coats, hats and dresses. Many people have bicycles and there are men in boots sweeping the side of the streets.