Cyril Visits Lesney Farm Allotment and Pubs in Erith

A compelling glimpse inside an unnamed East End pub in 1963 where a talent show takes place featuring singers and strippers.

Music hall ghosts haunt the Bartons Arms pub in Birmingham; a temple to drink and a rare survivor in a city that has destroyed much of its Victorian architecture.

David Bellamy puts his head into hops, then into a fermenting tank, watches it mash into wort and has a pint – all grist to our engaging presenter.

A polemical film where two men in a pub compare and contrast the post-war resurrection of both Portsmouth and Plymouth after their pummelling by the Luftwaffe.

A non-alcohol-serving pub offers somewhere to go and something to do for teenagers in Burnham-on-Sea.

Real ale and folk music in the pub – performed by Fairport Convention – are celebrated in this portrait of Southwold on the Suffolk coast and the work of the Adnams brewery.

A beautiful sunny day to be on the allotment in Bexley, surrounded by home made greenhouses stuffed full of plants and vegetables

Looking down on Erith fete and across the river to East London.

Lose all sense of time as Tall ships, dinosaurs and Spitfires make for a temporally confusing trip through South London.

Some majestic shots of steamers on the Thames estuary at Erith feature in this short film, which also includes adverts for dog food and bird feeding.

Charming shots of Kent towns and countryside in this well-made and narrated story about local newspapers on the London fringes.

Beautiful NHS fundraiser, setting Michael Rosen’s poem to powerful archive images.

The UK's first purpose-built mosque welcomes a huge crowd of worshippers - and newsreel cameras!

A vicar is caught flirting with an improperly-dressed chorus girl in this saucy silent comedy.

A volunteer cavalry regiment is enthusiastically welcomed home after active service in South Africa.

All ashore! Passengers disembark and crew offload after a long Atlantic crossing.

A stroll in the park for civilised city-dwellers in Edwardian South Yorkshire.