It's No Joke Living in Barnsley

A concrete reason to give a dam about water supplies in Northern Ireland, in the heart of the picturesque Mourne Mountains

Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone film features Hay Plumb singing George Robins’ optimistic 1906 ditty.

A state welcome for a Handley Page aircraft arriving in Kolkata

Have a doggy treat - and meet some very well groomed visitors to Blackpool.

A truck driver thinks he’s in luck when he meets a strange girl by the road in this supernatural horror short

Teenage actors discuss their work with Franco Zeffirelli on Romeo and Juliet.

Barnsley CEAG factory women light the way forward for mining safety lamp production in this informative 1930s short film.

A highly revealing look at the high expectations for coal mining in Yorkshire shortly before the defeat of the miners and mass pit closures.

A real appetiser of a film, as Yorkshire and beyond reveals some of its gastronomic concoctions, such as the Pontefract cake, Bakewell pudding, and fare not for the queasy.

A Barnsley miner dreams of shooting a film about life down the pits in this audaciously ambitious amateur feature.

Deep underground, Yorkshire miners hew their living out of the coalface.

You may remember school processions, or having to perform in a play in front of the parents, as rather dull; not for these children in the early 1960s who clearly relish showing off.

Hand-drawn sound experiment by Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy.

A classic slice of British advertising history, though that hill's not as Northern as it looks...

Edwardian workers react to the camera at one of Rotherham's major employers.

Eager youngsters burst out of the gates of a Victorian cotton mill.

It's the first weekend of July 1901, and high society are on the Thames

An unusual farewell in this charming early film