Cycling Stunt Man

Exciting scenes of amateur cycling's 'Race of Champions' at Manchester's Fallowfield track.

The dedication and enthusiasm of Club cyclists is put to the test big time at the early season Kermesse on Norfolk's chilly east coast.

Blazing saddles on the 140-mile Blaydon route of the 1960 British National Road Race with one of the greatest amateur road cyclists of all time.

Rare film of an exciting sprint and cycle racing event just after the war, capturing most of the large expectant crowd and many competitors.

A tough training regime for a cycling world champion. Although it helps that he goes home to a fellow Olympian.

Crowds flood Belfast to catch a glimpse of the Tour of the North cyclists

Gloucester's only tricycle ice cream seller runs rings around Chris Tarrant.

Southern League football team Gloucester City call in famed hypnotist Henry Blythe to take them to a higher plane.

Mysterious home movie scrapbook of industry and agriculture around Gloucestershire.

The three candidates in the 1957 Gloucester by-election out and about on the campaign trail.

The Victorian great and good mark the passing of a political titan

For Britons during the Boer War, a welcome opportunity to support the troops - and march alongside them

Factory gate glimpses at - we think - Barrow-in-Furness

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film

Film's first joke? A fresh take on an old prank.

This was one of a series of actuality films made by the Victorian pioneer Birt Acres during 1895. The film is thought to have been shot on June 20, on the occasion of the opening of the Kiel Canal by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Acres shot other films at the same time, but they have not survived.