Workers Leaving T & W Lees of Stockport (1901)

Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.

An astonishingly crowded Victorian street reveals the vast scale of Tyneside manufacturing.

Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.

Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.

Worshippers in their Sunday best file out of the Church.

A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.

Take to the skies or take to the water: a variety of popular North West events from 1934.

How Stockport got ahead in hatting - the story of the rise and fall of a North West industry.

From furry buns to natty titfers: workers at Jackson's in Stockport demonstrate traditional skills of hat making.

Now don't laugh! A dog show is a serious matter for these young owners and their pets.

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

Spinners and weavers jostle through the exit of one of Stockport’s largest textile mills.

Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton and Keith Cooke reunite three decades on from the groundbreaking martial arts classic.

Action Xtreme - the UK's leading action film studio - hosts this panel discussion with four leading women in action cinema - Soo Cole, Jo Rolison, Jadey Duffield and Ioanna Karavela.

Daniel Kokotajlo talks to Nia Childs about Starve Acre, his folk horror about a couple digging deep into grief in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and lead actor Faraz Ayub talk to Tomisin Adepeju about their magic realist drama.

Documentary exploring the BFI National Archive’s role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell.

Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI national archive, explores the origins of a series of comic travelogues, and Michael Powell's involvement in making them.