Crowning Ceremony Flint Rose Queen 1930

History looms large for the family visiting Flint, Denbigh and Hawarden castles. Bodnant Garden provides a welcome profusion of colour.

Festivities in the North Wales town

Once upon a time there were artificial silk factories in Flint employing thousands of the local people, hundreds of whom are seen here leaving work, on foot, by bike or by bus.

There is a big turn out for the carnival, the queen its highlight. Those present would be able to view themselves later, in this very film, on the big screen at the local cinema.

Tall and imposing army officer, with name to match, opens the British Legion club in Flint, after inspecting veterans and laying a wreath on the local war memorial.

Gentlemen associated with St John’s English Congregational Church, Flint, grasp the mallet to secure the foundations of their new church, replacing one built in 1880.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.