Platt's Lap Converter

Nellie Boote's laundry in Market Street in operation, the women dashing away with all manner of smoothing irons as clothes are sorted, mended, washed, ironed and sorted again.

Handloom weaving, and its place in the history of textile production.

Redruth Cottage Industry

Miniskirt - Passion and Power

The NEEB sells an electrical future for modern homes and industries in the 1960s.

The looms of Lancashire: how the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution created the thriving textile industry.

Disabled people working in the community in Oldham.

A last look at the mighty steam engines that once powered Lancashire's mills.

"Britain's bread hangs by Lancashire's thread" – cotton, Britain's great post-war hope.

See how steam powered the textile industry of Lancashire.

The Collin family of Chadderton, Oldham, enjoy life to the full.

Whatever the weather, the procession will go on in this Lancashire town.

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.