Road Blocks

Woking gears up for war in this remarkable film about the Home Guard and its contribution to the town.

Adorable amateur film showing the work of the Auxiliary Fire Service in Finchley with a mixture of pride and self-deprecation.

Men of the NFS demonstrate their fire fighting equipment skills before an audience in this splendid colour film from 1942. And the best crews get the best prizes.

From their sandbagged headquarters, the Sandiacre ARP and Red Cross await their call to action.

As the nation slides into conflict, Nottingham prepares for a new type of warfare: the horrors of aerial bombardment and mustard gas attacks.

A behind the scenes look at civil defence work during and after a Luftwaffe bombing raid on Bristol during the Second World War.

Thirties seaside holidays feature in this Albany Cine Club film - with families, dogs, pipe smokers and uncomfortable woolen swimwear

Join the Giles family and their friends on an idyllic seaside holiday by the Sussex coast - just a few months before the Munich Crisis

The arrival of summer means it's time for grown men to dress as ladies and play some raucous cricket - as Eric Norman's holiday camp film shows

Enjoy the changing colours of the Sussex countryside and the fruits of the season in this prize-winning lyrical film diary

The changing rhythm of the seasons are captured in this award-winning short film – which also features skipping, lambs, picnics and bikinis

Watch the Crawley & Horsham Hunt shakin' their livers in this lively film about fox-hunting and point-to-point racing made by Dora Harmer

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

The magic of a real solar eclipse filmed by a famous magician