Secondary School Gymnastics: Leyton County High School for Boys

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

Women cyclists go for gold! Singer Gracie Fields presents the grand prize at South London's premier women's cycling event.

They breed them hard in Dudley - running non-stop for 24 hours is nothing to Ron Bentley: his next challenge is to race over 800 miles.

Want to learn to dance the Swedish Masquerade, Dutch Hakke Toone, or maybe the Italian Tarantella? Essex schoolchildren show us how it’s done.

Meet the president leading the haggis hurling revival and learn how delivering lunch became a sport for kilted gentlemen.

Rare home movie capturing sporting action in 1967 at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympics.

Hackney Downs School Cadets in athletics training and competition, filmed by teacher Joe Brearley.

Essex County Cricket Club’s best batsman, Keith Fletcher, and the ‘Cricketer’s Cricketer’, bowler John Lever speak to Anglia TV.

The recently married Duchess of York, who would later become the Queen Mother, opens a bazaar in front of dazzled crowds.

Beautiful NHS fundraiser, setting Michael Rosen’s poem to powerful archive images.

A volunteer cavalry regiment is enthusiastically welcomed home after active service in South Africa.

All ashore! Passengers disembark and crew offload after a long Atlantic crossing.

A stroll in the park for civilised city-dwellers in Edwardian South Yorkshire.

The UK's first purpose-built mosque welcomes a huge crowd of worshippers - and newsreel cameras!

A vicar is caught flirting with an improperly-dressed chorus girl in this saucy silent comedy.