Fire Brigade Turn-out in the Country

A veritable Victorian Towering Inferno.

Jolly boating weather as the hordes descend on Henley for the Regatta.

University teams navigate a bend on the river Cam in no ordinary rowing race.

A little piece of football history from the people's game: possibly the earliest surviving game on film

The launch of H.M.S Albion, which was marred by the collapse of a gangway which resulted in many spectators drowning.

The magic of a real solar eclipse filmed by a famous magician

An epic ramble from Winchester to Canterbury, through Hampshire, Surrey and Kent with picnics, pints and much prettiness on the way

Join these jolly funsters on their travels by car around Sussex and the Isle of Wight, starting off in Croydon as it used to be before the invasion of the office blocks.

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.