Description: A Round Table emblem, centre screen, is surrounded by the words ‘Bexley Round Table No 191’ in Gothic script. Then another title: ‘Old Fashioned Cricket Match 1955’. A man in a high hat, dark tailored jacket, light trousers and knee length boots, drives an open horse-drawn carriage along the road. A young boy in a Fauntleroy style suit and collar sits beside him. Seated in the carriage itself, three women in Victorian dresses and bonnets, with a young bonneted girl and a boy in a baker’s style hat, wave at the bystanders.

A man wearing a waistcoat and top hat, with his sleeves rolled up, rides a penny-farthing bicycle across a field with people sitting and standing round the edge.

A man in a suit, followed by a woman in a floral dress and straw hat, shakes hands with a line of top hatted men in white shirts and trousers, with dark waist ties and neckerchiefs. Each raises his hat and bows as he shakes the dignitary’s hand. One has a splendid long false beard. Now the dignitary shakes hands with another line of men, presumably the opposing team, in dark frock coats and white trousers, who also doff their hats as they are introduced. Some of these men too have abundant facial hair. The last man in line is in shirtsleeves with a checked waistcoat. A young girl in a long frock and bonnet presents a bouquet of flowers to the lady in the hat, and drops her a curtsey.

A team of top hatted gentlemen in white shirts, trousers and waistcoats walk purposefully out on to the field. Two other bearded men dressed in white with black top hats stride out carrying cricket bats and walk towards the wicket. The game starts, men, some in frock coats, run about. The bowler bowls under arm. It looks as if a fight might be breaking out among the fielders.

Elsewhere in the field another group of men, some of them formally dressed but one in striped T shirt, shorts and socks, are fixing up some heavy ropes to make a boxing ring. The man in the striped outfit fights a man in white long johns. A referee tries to hold them apart. Other men stand outside the ring looking on as the man in stripes holds his opponent upside down. A top-hatted bookie – ‘Honest Joe’ according to the blackboard he is holding up - is taking bets on Killer and Cooker. His partner writes on a paper with a quill pen. Back in the ring both fighters lie prostrate on the ground. Men in frock coats and top hats carry the referee off on a stretcher. A white haired man, maybe the bookie, is being put in the stocks. The referee now more comfortable on his stretcher has a box on his stomach and is holding a giant beer bottle. Another man approaches and the referee is tipped off.

A large sign announces the Grand BALLOON RACE and people crowd round to inflate their balloons for one shilling a go.

A pantomime horse runs across the field, the front legs skipping, the back legs running. A man dressed as a baby in a nappy, bonnet and freakish mask totters across the field and then a man in an apron and cap, his nurse, takes his hand. Behind is a boy in a guard’s uniform carrying a fluffy toy, followed by a bare-chested child with horns carrying a doll, accompanied by her mother and big sisters. Next is a Spanish dancer and then a bandaged man with a crutch carrying a football.

In the middle of the field a man in a top hat is sitting, writing, at a table while a boy beside him plays cards. One of the cricketers is sitting by the wicket playing cards too. The match is in full swing. The batsman holds his bat and takes delivery of the ball.

A large but somewhat rickety looking steamroller, belching smoke drives on to the pitch - the words ‘Big Brother’ and two large eyes are painted on its side. The steamroller appears to roll over a man lying in its path. A cricketer peers underneath. A man lies under its front wheels, elbows up protecting his face as the soft ‘roller’ clears him. At the back of the steamroller a flattened cardboard figure of a man is revealed lying on the grass as the roller drives on. A group of men respectfully lift the ‘body’ carrying it over to add to a pile of other flattened bodies lying on a stretcher. Now others are taking turns at being run over by the steam roller. The man in baby clothes lies still and straight for his turn. A large crowd follows the vehicle.

The cricket match continues and a batsman is out, handing his bat to the next player as bowler and fielders stand around. But now it seems to be all over and the players all walk off, carrying one of the team aloft. They gather together near the beer barrel, drinking, looking pleased with themselves and raising their glasses to the camera.

A man in jacket, dark glasses and bow tie, smiles confidently as he rides a penny farthing bicycle across the field, then jumps down off it.

A group of women in long Victorian style dresses and bonnets are in an open horse-drawn carriage, decorated with signs advertising the ‘real’ cricket match, between the Gentlemen of Bexley Round Table and the Gentlemen of Old Bexley at 3pm on 5th August. Men in top hats stand around. Now the carriage, with both men and women aboard, is being driven along a tree-lined road followed by a few motor cars. A man runs along the pavement trying to keep up with the trotting horses.

Back at the cricket ground two more local dignitaries, a man in a suit and tie and a woman in a pleated skirt, fur stole, hat and high heels, are greeting another line of deferential players. Two men dressed as yokels in smocks and hats, carrying their tools over their shoulders, smile at the camera then follow the players on to the field. The game starts. Among the onlookers, two young women in elaborate period costumes with two little boys in knickerbockers smile at the camera. On the pitch a pantomime horse, a bull and a toreador interrupt the match. The toreador and the bull circle each other round a large bin out of which someone is squirting water and when the bin is overturned a clown jumps out and runs off. A man in a sailor’s outfit walks across the pitch with three small boys, then back in the middle of the field he dances with a man in a grass skirt.

At the edge of the pitch, near the pavilion, more decorous members of the audience in Victorian dress process slowly so people can admire their rather splendid costumes.

Four men in cricketing gear walk on to the pitch shouldering a heavy iron girder with ‘SPUDO THE STRONG MAN’ painted on it. They put it down carefully. Spudo, in shorts and leopard skin vest, limbers up, attempts and finally succeeds in lifting the girder. He bows and is presented with a huge bottle of beer from which he takes a lengthy swig. A man in a frock picks up the girder with one hand and runs off the field with it. Spudo the strong-man leaves the field, still smiling, with one of the cricketers.