| Description | Originally deposited as a DVD-ROM.
Timing. Action on film:
(00:32) Crowds in Wednesday market are waiting for Father Christmas.
(03:10) The mace-bearer, Mayor David Horsley and David Grange, Chairman of East Riding County Council, lead Father Christmas into town.
(03:29) Father Christmas appears in a sleigh, pulled by reindeers.
(04:08) David Horsley welcomes Father Christmas.
(05:56) Father Christmas moves down Toll Gavel, preceded by a juggler and a police car.
(07:40) A view from a first floor window over the Festival of Christmas stalls in Saturday Market.
(09:36) We look at the various stalls in the market. The stallholders are in Victorian costume.
(11:06) The children's funfair rides on Saturday Market.
(12:14) The Beverley Lions' Christmas tree under the Market Cross.
(12:36) The L C Byass musical steam organ.
(13:57) The Bistro restaurant at the corner of Hengate has a sign portraying a chef.
(14:12) Vintage cars parked in North Bar Without.
(19:24) Some Civil War re-enactors in period clothing.
(19:41) A cannon and some tents in Coronation Gardens, and more re-enactors. There are many 17th century artefacts and weapons on display.
(20:58) A re-enactor plays the bagpipes.
(26:08) One of the re-enactors demonstrates how to load a musket and describes how to fire it.
(28:16) We have another look at the vintage cars.
(32:06) The gates at North Bar are closed and we see some of the re-enactors drilling.
(34:40) One of the pike men 'deserts'. He has to run the gauntlet as punishment.
(37:44) The re-enactment takes us back to the siege of Beverley in 1642, when the Roundheads tried to take Beverley, which was a Royalist town.
(39:15) An expert from the re-enactors describes some of the battlefield tactics being demonstrated.
(45:23) Some children from the audience are shown how to drill with 'pikes'.
(49:01) The gates at North Bar are 'blown open' and the defence of Beverley is acted out.
(1:01:30) A Roundhead spy is 'executed'.
(1:03:04) Back in Saturday Market. We look around the Christmas Market and the children's fun fair.
(1:09:20) In Wednesday Market, some ladies are performing a traditional folk dance.
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