Help for Russia

The care and education of Bermondsey's orphans and abandoned children - before the introduction of the welfare state.

Murals around London, notably Morgan's Wall in Battersea, painted by local artists.

The original foodie city: from bustling Bermondsey Wharves through Smithfield and Billingsgate to London's street markets and general stores.

Scenes of thronging street life and market trading along Tower Bridge Road, Bermondsey Street and Southwark Park Road.

White-coated scientists, doctors, chiropodists, dentists, and midwives unite in their mission to eradicate disease and ignorance from Bermondsey.

A wartime magazine made to motivate and inform war workers, commissioned by the Ministry of Information in 1942 and exclusively screened in factories.

A deft music hall act adapted for film, featuring the only known appearance of pioneer filmmaker Robert Paul

Take a fighter jet, a Top Gun pilot with sunglasses and a brand new SAAB 900 and you have a sure-fire vehicle to launch a Hollywood career.

A wandering warrior dreams of a new form of expression, in this promo for UNKLE’s album The Road: Part II / Lost Highway Pt. II directed by Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones.

A rare glimpse of 1930s London in colour: the Thames has never looked lovelier.

A world away from zany humour, Richard Lester shows he can also capture the easy opulence of the upper class nibbling After Eight mints.

Life is looking up! The war is over and the “Corona” Man can visit his “Corona” families once more, door-to-door.