Playing Cricket on Blackpool Beach

Troon CC compete in the National Village Championship

Kenneth Lockwood's 1930 film shows men of the Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment enjoying a game of cricket at Stoughton Barracks near Guildford

For local cricket players from a local cricket club playing in a local league, just playing is what matters; but winning is also nice.

Sevenoaks celebrates the bicentenary of the cricket match between the Gentlemen of Kent and Gentlemen of Sussex

The enthusiasm of cricket lovers knows no bounds, as seen here with Pudsey St Lawrence Cricket Club and their rivals in the Bradford League.

Astwood Bank cricket team prepare for the pinnacle of the village game with a trip to the home of English cricket.

This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Blackpool.

Blackpool Tower is hard to miss in this local version of a 'phantom ride'

Join the Lee family as they tour Windsor Safari Park and its famous Dolphinarium in this film from 1971. Then follow them to Blackpool Beach for pony trekking and donkey rides.

Hold on tight! We're off, riding the wooden rollercoaster at Blackpool's Pleasure Beach.

A tribute to Lancashire, land of industry, leisure, sublime landscape - and laundry detergent

It’s Easter and men, women and children all over England enjoy a day out, be it on the beach, at the races or at the zoo

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.