Beach Scenes at Felpham

Join the Lockwood family for a day out on Felpham beach - filmed in Dufaycolor - an early colour film for the amateur market

Captain Lockwood's Dufaycolor film captures a day in 1935 and starts with a couple cavorting on the beach and later emerging from a swim. We then see the family atop the beach. Wrapped in towels, a woman advances before being tickled by a man. Beach huts can be seen in the background. Then we see a small child by a groyne, fetching seawater in a toy bucket. We then relocate to the family garden where two women relax in deckchairs and swing-seats. Both make funny faces for the camera.

The maker of this film, Captain Kenneth Lockwood, served with the 6th Battalion, Queen's Royal (West) Surrey Regiment prior to and during the Second World War. After capture by the Germans, he was at first imprisoned at Laufen Castle in Bavaria before being transferred to the notorious Oflag IVC in Eastern Germany - otherwise known as Colditz. Despite many attempts at a 'home-run', prisoner-of-war slang for a successful escape, Lockwood was unable to break free from Colditz until the castle was overrun by United States forces in 1945. After the war, Captain Lockwood became the secretary of the Colditz Association, a post he held for 50 years until his retirement in 2006. He received an MBE in 1990.