Peterborough Playbus

Meet Mohamed Fazal Hussain, elder statesman and all-round Mr Fixit of Bradford's Muslim community, and a film mogul in the making...

A Sri Lankan dance troop enthrals folk festival goers.

Quite possibly the first Indian concert to be put on in a theatre in Bradford, with striking classical Indian dancing and musical instruments.

Samosas sit alongside sandwiches as India's Republic Day is celebrated in fine style in Leicester.

Isolation can be a problem for South Asians, especially for women. A new cultural centre in Peterborough is hoping to change that.

Will the 'House of Cards' be the sanctuary that the elderly Asian men of Wolverhampton need?

With narration by Rodney Crouch, we see the latest equipment and typesetting processes that are needed to create one issue of a daily paper.

Peterborough's new live-in facility for learning-disabled patients offers woodwork and pottery as therapy.

Isolation can be a problem for South Asians, especially for women. A new cultural centre in Peterborough is hoping to change that.

What is the secret to a successful dyke-jump? Apparently it’s all in the push-off! This daft Fenland sport, looks like a whole lot of fun.

The children of Peterborough run rings around comedian Tommy Handley and other dignitaries during a city sports day.

Inside the factories and out on the streets - actuality footage of Peterborough, captured by a cinema owner for screening locally alongside a main feature and other shorts.

The Victorian great and good mark the passing of a political titan

For Britons during the Boer War, a welcome opportunity to support the troops - and march alongside them

Factory gate glimpses at - we think - Barrow-in-Furness

Worthing waves at us in this mesmerising early film

Film's first joke? A fresh take on an old prank.

This was one of a series of actuality films made by the Victorian pioneer Birt Acres during 1895. The film is thought to have been shot on June 20, on the occasion of the opening of the Kiel Canal by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. Acres shot other films at the same time, but they have not survived.