Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk

Are you a yachter or windmill lover? Maybe you’re a twitcher, or a painter? An amateur film about those ‘daft hobbyists’ who love Broadland.

An affectionate record of the nesting period of a female swan. Winner of the 'Home Movies' magazine amateur filmmaking competition, 1933.

With their gramophone perched on the back of their launch, the Jenkins family set off for a day of rest and relaxation on the Broads and Suffolk coast.

The boating holiday business was big on the Broads but fleet hire firm Blakes still had to advertise to entice 'would be sailors' to come onboard.

Having the Norfolk Broads nearby as a tailor made waterside training camp must have helped the 1st Norwich Sea Scouts respond to the call to fly the flag for Great Britain.

Easter fell at the end of March in 1937 and, judging from the grey skies, wind and woolly jumpers in this film, it may well have been a cold one!

Gerald Haycock embarks on a torture and pleasure weekend and goes from reward-based hard exercise to eating and drinking.

Estate once owned by the father of King Harold, Godwin has never been bought or sold.

Women are put through their deportment paces and all in the name of etiquette.

Andy Price checks out how to make your own surfboard.

The sun shines on the school sports, ensuring good trade for the ice-cream vendor; in winter it makes the snow that halts train and car sparkle.

RAF 22 Squadron provides air-sea rescue for the South West with new HAR 10 Whirlwind helicopters.