Description: The film begins with views of the River Severn around Lydney in Gloucestershire on their journey there. They arrive at a boarding house in the Llantwit Major area of Glamorgan (possibly St Donats). The boys are offloaded from a coach (from Enterprise Coaches in Kenton) and walk into the stone building where they will be staying. Inside the boarding house, a woman rings a bell summoning the group to dine and serves up boys with a meal from a counter. The boys eat in the dining room before doing the washing up and retiring to their dormitory. Another day sees a trip to nearby Marcross Beach with lunch on the cliffs, the boys being served up packed lunches from a cardboard box. The day continues with a walk alongside a stream through woods and fields and a visit to Church Farm. At the farm the boys meet some of the animals and livestock including a draught horse, a carthorse, a riding horse, herd of cows and a bull, pigs and piglets, a calf, and some sheep. They also visit many of the farm buildings and see agriculture equipment including tractors and a plough. A short sequence is shot inside the farmhouse concentrating on the fireplace mantelpiece with its photographs, porcelain dogs, brassware and candlesticks, the camera briefly drops down to record the snug seats beside the open fire, some men smoking, and a pet dog. Another day trip takes the pupils to Cornelly Limestone Quarry, near Pyle. From afar they watch blasting at the quarry face and machines moving rock and loading trucks. The boys then come into quarry itself and watch proceedings as rock is crushed, passed along a conveyor belt, sorted for size by tumbling over a metal grid, transported via an aerial ropeway and poured into waiting road trucks. The boys get to see more industry when they watch casting and forging at a chain works. They hold pieces of smoked glass across their eyes so they can watch the forge work with its intense heat and light. Workmen poke into the forges with long poles and molten iron is transported about the site, Three men are filmed hammering and bending metal into chain links using an anvil, while another man flattens out metal using a mechanical drop hammer. In a workshop the boys examine lathes and other equipment. The boys take a coach trip to a coalmine in the valleys. There are views of slagheaps, and the pithead with its headgear and winding ropes. Some miners with blackened faces speak to the boys, before they make a visit inside. The coal blackened boys dressed as miners with hard hats, lamps and overalls are filmed leaving the pithead. At Ewenny Pottery in Bridgend, a craftsman is filmed making a vase and bowl on a potter's wheel; one of the boys tries his hand with predictably disastrous results, as the clay flies off. The film ends with the boys leaving the boarding house with their suitcases and loading the coach home. Before boarding themselves a number of group photographs are taken, then the coach leaves with the boys waving to their hosts as it drives away.