00:04The
03:00And it's hop farms.
03:05Picking hops.
03:07That's the purpose of this outing.
03:18The visitors live in corrugated iron sheds, which have to be made as much like home as possible.
03:23So they brought the spare room lino and a spot of fancy wallpaper.
03:37Settled in?
03:38Well, almost, with old friends from home.
03:40And you remember the people who were here last year, it's not long before supper's cooking.
03:53Scrumptious.
03:54The bigger families have their own kitchen where they cook and eat and sit around listening
04:00to the wireless.
04:02The hops grow like runner beans, climbing up strings.
04:06You pull one down, and everyone sets two to nip off the green flowers and toss them into
04:11the family bin.
04:15Many of the hoppers are old.
04:18But there are the young ones, too.
04:26Look what you're doing, can't you?
04:30Another hop garden romance on the way.
04:33There's not been a specially large crop of hops, but it's good quality stuff.
04:37In the three-week season, nearly 15,000 tons of hops have been picked, and that's enough
04:43for 800 million pints of beer.
04:51Before the hops go to the brewery, they must be dried in the oast house.
05:14Soon, the hop gardens will be bare, and the last trailer on its way to the oast house.
05:18Then comes payday.
05:20The head of the family presents the tally card to the farmer, and receives the cash.
05:25A happy time.
05:36Yes, the time for celebration.
05:38And having picked so many hops, who can resist tasting a few?
05:41You done?
06:15Holidays with play.
06:17The subject is always news.
06:20Millions of us all over Britain start planning our holidays soon after Christmas.
06:24We save up for them all the year round.
06:26We take them in the summer and then we're ready to talk about them for the rest of the year.
06:46Can you wonder that the water's becoming more and more part of the national way of life?
06:55Just a quiet deck chair on the beach and there's plenty to do and plenty to look at.
07:04Steady now. A chap gets short of breath watching all this exercise.
07:11By the time the season's over, about 8 million people will have sat on Blackpool Sands.
07:16Many of them day-trippers.
07:18Many of them from the town's 5,000 hotels and boarding houses.
07:23If you're in the mood, you can do the shows,
07:25which range from West End films and spectaculars to Punch and Judy.
07:41The Golden Mile and the fun fairs are perhaps Blackpool's own answer to the competition of the holiday camps.
07:47And other resorts are meeting the challenge too.
07:49If it's been a hard year's work, you can unwind and forget all about it among the sideshows.
07:54There's always something to do.
08:18Every year, about one and a half million people in Britain go to holiday camps.
08:23For today, there are camps to suit all tastes.
08:25And in the last 10 years, the number of holiday campers has trebled.
08:34The big attraction of holiday camps is undoubtedly the fact that everything is laid on in one place.
08:40And you can join in or not as you wish.
08:42Most camps are near the sea or a river.
08:47And even in a self-catering camp, there are restaurants if you want to change from doing your own cooking.
08:56The holiday camp is one place where you'll never see the sign,
08:59No Children Allowed.
09:14These camps, children are catered for probably better than in any other form of organised holiday.
09:20From the moment they get up, bright and early,
09:22until it's time to go to bed and leave their parents to spend the sort of evening they want.
09:29At the modern holiday camp of this size,
09:31there's every kind of entertainment from organised sports to film shows.
09:36There's dancing for as many hours as anybody could possibly want.
09:40Events like mother and child contests help while away a wet afternoon.
09:45For one of the big problems of British holiday camps is the weather.
09:48And alternative indoor programmes are ready to be brought into operation whenever they're needed.
09:53For those with a little more money to spend and who want to be sure of the sunshine,
09:58there are now holiday camps like summer villages around the Mediterranean.
10:02Some of the new ones are British.
10:05These holidaymakers are on the way to a camp south of Naples,
10:09one of 14 on the Mediterranean coast run by a French organisation.
10:31This, of course, is a holiday camp with a difference,
10:33with blue skies and golden beaches and an almost South Sea Island welcome.
10:45At this kind of holiday camp, the accent is always on sunbathing,
10:49despite all the other diversions.
11:11And when the sun has set, the evenings are warm enough to dance in the open air.
11:20When you arrive at the camp, you buy yourself a necklace
11:23and you pay for your drinks and anything else you want with a bead or two.
11:27All this may seem a far cry from holiday camps in Britain,
11:31though it's really the same mixture with a continental flavour.
11:48The National Anthem
11:49is in the UNFISC.
11:49The National Anthem
11:49is in the UNFISC.
11:50They'll only get to the UNFISC.
11:52The UNFISC.
11:54The UNFISC.
12:13Down the coast towards Rome, we come to Pisa, with its famous leaning tower.
12:20It really does lean, more than 16 feet out of the perpendicular.
12:25But it's been leaning for 800 years, so there's no good hanging around for it to fall.
12:30Even if you don't understand the language, shopping is easy, so easy it's hard to say no.
12:37The flower of Italy is Florence, so full of our treasures it would take weeks to see them all.
12:46Here's the Ponte Vecchio, one of the loveliest bridges in the world.
12:49But we are bound for Rome, and we pass along the Assisi road, reminding us of St Francis,
12:55the founder of the Franciscan Order of Monks.
13:02The warm Mediterranean at last.
13:06And time for a paddle, there's no doubt about it, it's warmer than Blackpool.
13:20The Great Romantic Byron wrote,
13:23While stands the Colosseum, Rome shall stand.
13:27When falls the Colosseum, Rome shall fall.
13:30And when Rome falls, the world.
13:45The Great Romantic Byron wrote,
13:47The Great Romantic Byron has been born,
13:47and she lands the City of Monk Hall.
13:47The Great Romantic Byron will walk through the automatic,
13:49And the Great Romantic Byron wrote,
14:03And so to the air ferry, the fastest method of transplanting the motorist and his car furthest away from it
14:10all.
14:13Having booked several months in advance, you drive to South End, Lyd or Bournemouth according to where you want to
14:19go.
14:20On to the ramp goes your medium-sized car up and into the plane's nose.
14:25You can be off to the Channel Islands, France, Switzerland or Holland.
14:29At this moment, you, your partner and your car are 50 minutes away from La Touque, a trip that will
14:35cost you altogether about £25 return.
14:39You are also 75 minutes away from Rotterdam for roughly double that cost and two hours, 35 minutes from Geneva
14:45at double the cost again.
15:10You don't have to be a motorist trying to pass it to realise this has become a familiar sight on
15:16Britain's roads.
15:17In less than 20 years, caravanning has established itself as one of the most popular ways of spending a holiday
15:23in this country.
15:25There are more than a thousand caravans here and all kinds of amenities for all ages.
15:30There are shops of one kind and another.
15:33There are shops of one kind and a thousand caravans here and all kinds of amenities for all ages.
16:03There are shops of one kind and a thousand caravans here and all kinds of amenities for all ages.
16:33They're saying there's no business like snow business.
16:37Right across the Cairngorm Mountains, the spine of Scotland, towering more than 4,000 feet high,
16:43the icy vastnesses are being turned into a skier's playground from the middle of December to April and even into
16:50May on the higher ground.
16:52It all adds up to a revolution to a business worth around half a million pounds a season and it
16:59has all been created in the last few years.
17:02Every weekend, some 10,000 Scots make for the main skiing centres to join tourists from all over Britain in
17:09some 70 hotels,
17:11many of which used to close down for the winter.
17:14Ski schools like this have been set up with experienced instructors from Austria, Norway and Switzerland.
17:22But not all learners make as successful a run as this.
17:31And not many expert skiers with their novice days long behind them can member like these aces.
17:38This deep, crisp snow has brought new life to the highlands and a new light on the age-old problem
17:44of how to make the most of this far north of Britain.
17:47In a changing world, the people of the highlands are moving fast with the times.
17:54They're out to make skiing as Scottish as haggis and whiskey.
17:58They're leaping into a prosperous future.
18:18There's one golden rule for keeping fit nowadays, enjoy it.
18:22It doesn't matter, say the experts, what exercise you do, so long as you want to.
18:26Then you'll get results.
18:30This tough muscle-pulling stuff, for instance, is all very well, but for the likes of you and me, perhaps
18:35it's better to try something that comes more naturally.
18:44At least, that's what the Central Council of Physical Recreation says.
18:48And that's what they encourage at evening classes throughout the country.
18:52And at their three centres, where yearly more than 15,000 people spend a week sporting holiday.
19:02Experts are on hand to teach and encourage.
19:05Maybe it's archery.
19:10Waitlifters from all over the country come to Bissom Abbey on the Thames for instruction from Al Murray, Britain's national
19:16and Olympic coach.
19:18Remember, nothing to stop you trying so long as you want to.
19:28What's this? A family of weightlifters? Looks like it.
19:34Hey, take it easy, son.
19:36Timberyard manager Jack Edmonds of Mortlake, Surrey, says it's the best exercise of all.
19:41So he has his three sons out in the back garden every morning.
19:45Sixty pounds for Jackie, aged eight.
19:51Sixty-five pounds for Raymond, 11.
20:00And for Keith, who's only a three-year-old, just sixteen pounds.
20:06Here's more my idea of exercises.
20:09Rhythmical movements to music by the Keep Fit Association.
20:24More movement to music.
20:26The Margaret Morris technique of self-expression.
20:29Given a subject to represent, each person expresses it in her own way and gets plenty of exercise in the
20:35process.
20:35After being solids, they now imagine their liquids, water not bare, and weave all over the place.
21:08London businessman Albert Meltzer has solved his problem of exercise,
21:12by stopping off every morning at Highgate Ponds.
21:15He's been doing it for 15 years now, summer and winter.
21:27He allows himself a ten-minute dip.
21:39Then a good rub down, and he's on his way to his King's Cross bookshop.
21:53Cycling's another way.
21:56Mr. Murphy of Streatham rides for an hour every morning, whatever the weather.
22:04Oh, well, at least he gets the exercise.
22:40Yoga exercises are practiced today in homes up and down the country,
22:45or at classes at a yoga center, where lectures are given on the meaning of the science.
22:50Here, once or twice a week, students learn the two kinds of exercises that form Hatha Yoga.
22:56The yoga of physical fitness and the control of mind and body.
23:00First, they must learn to control their breathing and their minds.
23:14Next, come the pure exercises.
23:16There are 84 traditional postures in Hatha Yoga,
23:19and they are variations of seven basic postures.
23:23Yoga, says teachers, is not a religion, it's a way of life.
23:28The techniques taught at a yoga course are claimed to keep the students fit
23:32and to enable them to achieve perfect relaxation,
23:35to remove tension, and to balance body and mind.
24:01For some people, relaxation means keeping perfectly still.
24:05For others, it means just the opposite.
24:08And if you're between 4 and 14, your idea of relaxing is never to relax for a minute,
24:13like these children in some of London's playgrounds,
24:16which have been specially designed for them to do just that.
24:26The Greater London Council began to think along adventure playground lines in 1959.
24:31Now 28 parks all over the London area have special play parks in them,
24:36like this one in Battersea Park.
24:38Play parks open during the spring and summer school holidays all day
24:42and from 5.30 to 8.00 p.m. in term time.
25:00No two play parks are exactly alike, and each reflects the outlook of its leader.
25:05Free play is encouraged, but it still needs unobtrusive leadership to be really enjoyable.
25:14Up and down the country, the idea of free creative play is being developed.
25:18This playground on the edge of a Birmingham housing estate was laid out by the landscape section,
25:24and while this comprehensive playground was still being built by the Nuneaton local authority,
25:30it was invaded and occupied by the children.
25:36The mounds have been made with the rubbish from the site and surfaced with concrete for bad weather use.
25:42Another new piece of equipment is the aerial ropeway, which became a firm favourite in no time.
25:47Good fun, good fun and good exercise, too.
25:59But even with free creative play, healthy competition can be stimulating.
26:05Leader Murray Marks of the Cumberland Play Centre in Camden decided to organise a soapbox derby among the children in
26:11the area,
26:12and everyone entered into the spirit of the thing with a will.
26:35The heats were run on a time basis, and there was what could be called a soft finish.
26:47This is the sort of contest in which it doesn't really matter who wins.
26:51It's the adventure that counts.
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