Pinner - 1926 - Osborne Personal Film

Grandma and Grandad also join in the fun of this home movie - with beaches, swings & roundabouts and a medieval pageant led by Christopher Robin

A new baby holidays with London-based lawyer Goronwy Moelwyn Hughes, his wife and sons, and Lloyd Georges David and Megan discuss a new deal.

With the luxury of a beach hut as their base, the Mann family from Southend took any opportunity to head up the coast to spend many happy days at Walton-on-the-Naze

An interwar outing on the River Thames with a reminder of the Great Western Railway's influence in Birmingham.

Join the crowds in Barnstaple for fairground attractions

Seven O'Clock Regular Swimmers' Club open the new season with a splash!

The small town of Pinner in Harrow is brought to life through a short, reflective biography of novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Hijinks ensue when a couple attempt to operate their television set, illustrating the frustrations of (what would have been) new technology.

This amateur informational piece fervently laments the necessary shift from old-fashioned telephone operation to the automatic system.

Hats, stumbles and happy faces at this wedding film from 1956, taken at the service and reception of Judith and Peter Elliott in Pinner.

Amateur newsreel covering the Harrow Marathon and a packed Shrove Tuesday event on Pinner High Street attended by Ronny Barker.

A tour of Pinner Village during its celebratory Pinner Week highlights local landmarks, fun, fancy dress and festivities.

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.