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!

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.

Hythe is the location for this short film which features a new library under construction as well as other views of this attractive Kent coast town

Witness that last years of Hilsea Barracks in this short and wintry film from F Howard - featuring a community of buildings that have vanished from the map

The hot summer of '76 is made even hotter by a line-up of working steam traction engines in this nostalgic film from R H Collins

The ancient city of Chichester's new and very modern public library rises from its concrete foundations in this fascinating film from the mid 1960s

You'll be up to your knees in clay when you meet the Pyecrofts in this delightful film about a family brick making business on Hayling Island -