Pex: No-Run Nylons

Worried about losing your good looks on the tennis field? No need with Twink!

Use Rinso and help defeat Hitler! The soap brand deploys some savvy wartime advertising.

A spurned doll turns knife-wielding femme fatale when she doesn't get her teddy bear, in this cartoon cinema ad for tea

"Gee, old age!" Malicious Father Time doesn't stand a chance against a cartoon cupid armed with a big box of washing powder.

A cup of Horlicks helps a struggling husband bring home the bacon in this 1950s advert.

Mrs Cross takes the Daz test but what will the outcome be?

Sheerness in never ladder nylons: the proud boast of Pex's Pin Pin nylons.

Bringing "sweet memories of Uganda" to the East Midlands.

He arrived in Britain with £3 and went on to become one of the richest business men in the Midlands. How did Amrat Parmar do it?

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

The UK's immigration laws have prevented Dara Singh from seeing his family for a decade. His is one of many sad stories...

The sari has been worn by Asian women for millennia and in 1976 it was about to become a staple of wardobes across the UK.

A new luxury express is put through its paces. This film looks over the shoulders of the select band of craftsmen, engineers and operators, whose combined skills try to ensure that a train journey is a delightful experience.

British Transport Films record the varied daily lives of their neighbours as seen from the high roof of their building in London’s Marylebone.

The Stationmaster at York guides us through a typical day, from dawn to dusk.

Illustrating the efficiency of express freight trains, and how they link manufacturers with their customers at the other end of Britain.

Examining a day in the life of what was then the busiest railway system in the world – British Railways.

A 1957 film examining the future for British Railways, and some of the opportunities provided by a new modernisation plan.