Mining Review 13th Year No. 7

Flush on wages of £160 per week, George Best ponders money in the game, the pressures of fame and his footballing future.

A fascinating compilation of local topical footage from Workington.

Action shots of the great Billy Meredith, the ‘Prince of Wingers’, the legendary soccer star who played for Manchester City, Manchester United and Wales.

Argyle's Mariner scores in front of Bobby Robson

Professional footballers answer the call of duty and get in training; many would go on to fight in the Battle of the Somme.

A day in the life of stylish “Gentleman George” Hardwick, the new manager of Sunderland Football Club.

With the so-called ‘winter of discontent’ on the horizon, here we have summer contentment generated by the serenity and simple life of ‘God’s own county’.

Young hikers take to the hills in the time of motorcycles and sidecars, Morris dancers are still a novelty, and children balance barefoot over the stepping stones at Bolton Abbey.

Fundraising services and events for Cambridgeshire British Red Cross and St John Ambulance volunteers, captured by filmmaker William King, in 1943.

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