Description: Our excerpt opens with a family friend of the Bird family (and best man to Cyril Bird) posing on the deck of the Zephyr motor yacht, looking very debonair, smoking a pipe whilst wearing women's white framed sunglasses in a style made very fashionable in the late 1930s by sirens of the silver screen such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford.

Members of the family are filmed leaving the motor yacht on a smaller motor boat. We have a short hand-held panning view across Copperas Road towards the Victorian timber-framed Anchor Hotel and Public House. A short view of the Brightlingsea beach with two men painting a fishing boat up on the sand is followed by a view of Waterside with an oyster bar and cafe and features shops and houses with a horse and wagon coming down the street.

We see the man from the beginning of the film with another man, crossing the street, still smoking his pipe, with his trousers rolled up, and wearing a Captain's hat.