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Sylvia Dale taught children the art of ballet and tap dance from the early 1920s until quite recently. The recording shows Sylvia Dale training children in both music hall and variety show numbers, together...
Tough’s Boatyard on the River Thames was one of the collection points for the little ships that went to Dunkirk. The yard itself was a well-known Thames River business, building and repairing tugs, barges...
Interviews with participants in the civil riots of 1969, the effect of the events in Folkestone, Kent, a small seaside town. Location shots of Folkstone - the old High Street, the Law Courts, the harbour.
Filmed in the region of Bennachie near Aberdeen in Scotland. Shows remains of crofts built by a colony of settlers and three local people are interviewed about their life and work. Interviews with crofters...
Shows a local coal merchant, Martin Waldron, collecting and delivering coal in rural Hampshire, two days before he gave up his business because of falling orders for domestic solid fuel. He talks about how...
The aim was to record certain leisure activities of the working people of Bacup, Lancashire, with a view to demonstrating how these are changing as the mills close down and other forms of economic life take...
The two films (40 min each) present the lives and times history of Grimsby’s fishermen and their families from early in the century to the late 1980s, told through the words and memories of local men,...
Three films showing the the fishing industry in Grimsby and Hull during its heyday in the half century up to the 1970s. Part 1: Follows a giant freezer trawler, one of the then mighty Ross fleet from...
Hobson & Sons, military embroiders and manufacturers of regimental colours and military badges, moved from Soho to new London premises. The recording shows the company at work before the move.
A compilation of 13 films and film extracts showing aviation, motoring, trams, trains and shipping from 1896-1957.
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