Period fashions and cloche hats abound in this film showing a newly married expat couple and their guests in one of Shanghai's more leafy suburbs.

It's William and Charlotte Simpson's wedding day in 1928. We first see the happy couple driving away from Shanghai's Holy Trinity Cathedral and later entering a leafy garden in one of Shanghai's suburbs - though one could be forgiven for thinking one was in Surrey. Amid the cloche hats, bridesmaids, page boys and other morning-suited guests, a single Chinese servant accidentally intrudes into the scene.

William Simpson, who made this film, worked for the Bradford Dyers Association in Shanghai, at Number 1, The Bund. His wife Charlotte was born in China's Lushan mountains and she married William, who originally came from Bradford, in Shanghai's Anglican Holy Trinity Cathedral. The couple left Shanghai before the city was overrun by the Japanese Army and by 1938 had left China for good. Holy Trinity Cathedral, which dates from the mid 19th century, was known until 1949 as the English speaking Anglican church of Shanghai. There was a boy’s school attached to the cathedral which was attended by the young J. G. Ballard. The school features in his novel ‘Empire of the Sun’. During China’s Cultural Revolution the cathedral lost its spire and was later converted into a cinema. The building has since been restored by the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China.