Lancashire XI Cricket Team

Cricket takes a back seat in this film from 1967 which concentrates more on the spectators, their fashions and colourful examples of millinery

Cricket in the sunshine as Worcestershire take on Yorkshire at New Road.

Somerset is knocked out as Lancashire reaches target

Surrey play Yorkshire at the Oval as the 1922 County Championship nears its conclusion.

Johnners' plays umpire as Hampshire's cricketers - past and present - meet at Hackwood Park for the 1991 Carlsberg Cricket Challenge

Large crowds gather for cricket week at Canterbury's St Lawrence Ground, as Kent take on Sussex and Nottinghamshire.

Blackpool Tower is hard to miss in this local version of a 'phantom ride'

Join the Lee family as they tour Windsor Safari Park and its famous Dolphinarium in this film from 1971. Then follow them to Blackpool Beach for pony trekking and donkey rides.

Hold on tight! We're off, riding the wooden rollercoaster at Blackpool's Pleasure Beach.

A tribute to Lancashire, land of industry, leisure, sublime landscape - and laundry detergent

It’s Easter and men, women and children all over England enjoy a day out, be it on the beach, at the races or at the zoo

Blackpool goes plane crazy

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

Cinema advertisement for Marine Lake & Ocean Beach, Rhyl, a popular destination for crowds set on a day's fun on free rides.

Who could deny these advertising claims: "Attractive hair is the ambition of every woman", and "Your family will enjoy Lincoln potatoes"?

Operatic chickens, shrimps and salmon sing-a-long with a paste pot chorus in this vibrantly animated advert for Shippam's

Liberté, égalité and fraternité in corsets, girdles and bras.

This amazing discovery shows how cinema advertising used to look in Bygone Britain - a truly nostalgic gem of a film for lovers of Britain's past