Evacuees and ARP Training exercises

Whether it’s the height of the war or its aftermath makes no difference to these children enjoying themselves: at the seaside, on V E Day and around the bomb sites of Sheffield.

You can almost hear the cheers in this gorgeous silent film of VE day celebrations on the red, white and blue decked streets of Gateshead

Charming amateur film of the 1930-31 Marylebone Cricket Club team relaxing while on tour in South Africa.

Join four clean-cut intrepid youngsters on an awfully big 1940s adventure as they sing and cycle their way around the youth hostels of scenic Scotland in glorious colour. Tally ho!

Beautiful and engaging amateur footage of a lively 1930s Hong Kong.

A starkly beautiful portrait of crofting life in Flodabay on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides.

Watch Herne Bay's newest high-rise building grow from its foundations to its topping out - in John Clague's film featuring his own architectural creation

Herne Bay's pier suffers a battering in this 1978 film by John Clague, which later shows the great and good of Canterbury greeting their royal visitor, Prince Charles

John Clague's remarkable look at an ice-bound and shivering Herne Bay during Britain's Big Freeze of 1963

The seventies get off to a bad start in Herne Bay as the pier's Grand Pavilion comes to a sad and fiery end - all captured by John Clague's camera

There isn't a hard hat to be seen in this film about the construction of Herne Bay's Pier Pavilion - made by it's architect, John Clague

John Clague's smashing film records 1963 in Herne Bay - the year when Ken Russell and his cast and crew came to town for some French Dressing

Automated enforcement is the new way police are clamping down on traffic offenders.

The 1964 election of Liberal MPs in the South West is celebrated but beneath there is another side to the high level affairs of the Liberal Party.

The Mexican Fiesta hits town and brings with it Aztec glory and sombreros!

Interviews on the streets of Plymouth following the publication of the Pilkington Report on the future of television and broadcasting.

Dairy woman set to retire after fifty years of milk deliveries in and around Torrington.

Rotarians and their wives holiday in Cornwall in post-war Britain.