Dog Show Classes

Mingo, Jerry and Thea: names of the dogs or people seen? Either way, they will be connected, for sure, with Isla Johnston of Bryn Mêl, Glyngarth, Anglesey, who shot the footage.

The quirks of a whippet race, with novices in winklepickers learning from the old hands, all fully elucidated in broad West Yorkshire dialect.

An English Bull Terrier warns wartime cinema goers to put their cigarettes out with more care.

Gardener’s nightmare: a kitten at large in a flower bed!

Little disturbs the peace in Little London - despite some foxhunting, polo and the Second World War!

Oh to be Ginger Tom the cat and while away the hours!

Take to the skies or take to the water: a variety of popular North West events from 1934.

How Stockport got ahead in hatting - the story of the rise and fall of a North West industry.

From furry buns to natty titfers: workers at Jackson's in Stockport demonstrate traditional skills of hat making.

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

An orderly exit from one of the biggest hat factories in Edwardian Stockport.

Spinners and weavers jostle through the exit of one of Stockport’s largest textile mills.

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.