Jubilee on Film

It's all bell bottoms and bunting as families gather to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Pancake tossing around the village green, slow bicycle races, five-a-side football, obstacle courses, relay races, and British Bulldogs.

A special report looks into the preparations for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and her subsequent tour of the South West.

Streets are decorated, cakes are baked and the locals are in fancy dress as the community comes together to celebrate the Silver Jubilee.

Wolverhampton celebrates the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in 1935 with parades, bunting and a lavish pageant in front of an appreciative audience at Molineux.

Cuckfield comes together to plan and celebrate the 1977 Silver Jubilee with contributions from the whole community.

Wonderful, colourful scenes of pomp and ceremony as a family enjoy the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations on the Mall.

A dazzling portrait of Stepney in high spirits, celebrating the 25-year reign of King George V.

Pomp and pageantry reign and St George is resurrected for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in this colourful newsreel from 1977

Pram racing, a ‘Laughing Policeman’ competition and Maypole Dancing are the 'typically English' Silver Jubilee celebratory activities for one North Bedfordshire village.

Get out the flags and bunting and don't forget the tombola and ice cream it's time for a party as Silver Jubilee fever takes over the villages of Welford and Weston on Avon.

Addiscombe celebrates The Silver Jubilee at Ashburton Park, complete with a motorcycle versus horse competition. Who will win?

“E II R Rules OK” is the red, white and blue message on a Chopper entered in the silver jubilee best-dressed bike competition in Holywell.

Wowing the crowds in Colchester, as the community come together wearing colourful costume, to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.

Beefeaters at the village pub must mean that something regal is afoot at Crowle in Worcestershire.

Tony Mitchell captures a variety of events during Jubilee year - including day trips to Brighton and a bunting covered London as well as an accident at an airshow

The children of Kegworth show off their Silver Jubilee carnival creations.

Yards of bunting have been put up in Cardiff to celebrate King George V’s 25 years on the throne and the Wade home in Park Place has its share.

The Silver Jubilee of King George V celebrated in fine style in Leicester and dodging the showers at Sutton on Sea the following year.

All things symbolising Englishness are to the fore as Yorkshire villagers perform Morris dancing, maypole dancing, dress up as fairies and, of course, play a game of cricket.

The citizens of Crawley pull out all the stops to celebrate George V's Jubilee and two years later they do it all again for the Coronation of George IV.

Bognorians turn out in force, and fancy-dress, in this amateur film that captures the joy of their 1935 Silver Jubilee festivities.

Plymouth celebrates the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary

A mosaic of colour on film theres a grand turn out in Middlesbrough for a patriotic parade to celebrate King George Vs Silver Jubilee.

Well-choreographed dancing and marching from the pupils of Winterbourne Girls School in Croydon to celebrate George V’s Silver Jubilee in 1935.

The people of Southwold and Halesworth pulled out all the stops with bunting, banners and bands to celebrate their King George V's 25 years on the throne.

Glamorous Grannies, the Town Mayor’s coffee morning, carnival and pram racing; all feature in Downham Market’s Jubilee festivities in 1977.

Making merry to celebrate the monarchy: King George V’s silver jubilee in 1935 is the occasion of community festivities in Tredegar/area.

Carriages full of well-heeled guests continue in Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee procession, filmed for RW Paul.

A clear view of the head of the procession at Westminster

The Guards and Princes arrive at St Paul’s during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

Queen Victoria can just be made out under her umbrella in this sequence filmed in St Paul’s Churchyard during her Diamond Jubilee.

This camera position, in one of the raised stands right by St Paul’s, will have cost RW Paul a pretty penny.

The head of the procession approaches Westminster Bridge

The head of the colonial procession and the Horse Guards approach Westminster Bridge during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

The moment preceding the arrival of the Queen's Carriage

The Band of the First Life Guards approaches Westminster Bridge during Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.

An impressive array of Queen Victoria's Life Guards and Royal Horse Artillery

Royal Carriages approach Westminster Bridge

Mounted colonial troops reach St Paul's

Justin Brooke's fruit farm in Suffolk celebrates the Silver Jubilee - the 25-year reign, of King George V.

Children of Ocean View in Whitley Bay gather for a feast at a patriotic street party for the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Carnival costumes and decorative floats wow the crowds as 'Essex folk come together for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations of 1977.

Queen Victoria arrives for a garden party at Buckingham Palace following her Diamond Jubilee

One big happy family on the streets of South Shields for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee visit.

Woolwich celebrates the Silver Jubilee in this film from 1935. Made by the Eltham Cine Club it features its own Coronation a grand fete, a parade and a snatch of Shakespeare.

Apple bobbing, tug o' war, and a huge finger buffet - the perfect way to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Filmed in Cotton, Suffolk.

Unusually detailed shots of the Jubilee procession

A particularly enigmatic fragment of Jubilee film.

Gorgeous scenes of the Derbyshire village celebrating King George V's Silver Jubilee.

The Queen arriving at St Paul's

Silver Jubilee fun and games in a west Herefordshire village.

Filmed from an upstairs window, this film captures the people of Bognor Regis celebrating the 25 year reign of George V with a fancy-dress parade.

Nottingham mayor visits Arnold to cut the Silver Jubilee cake.