Silver Jubilee Festivities in Cotton

It's all bell bottoms and bunting as families gather to celebrate the Queen's Silver Jubilee.

Streets are decorated, cakes are baked and the locals are in fancy dress as the community comes together to celebrate the Silver Jubilee.

Wolverhampton celebrates the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in 1935 with parades, bunting and a lavish pageant in front of an appreciative audience at Molineux.

Cuckfield comes together to plan and celebrate the 1977 Silver Jubilee with contributions from the whole community.

A special report looks into the preparations for the Queen’s Silver Jubilee and her subsequent tour of the South West.

Pancake tossing around the village green, slow bicycle races, five-a-side football, obstacle courses, relay races, and British Bulldogs.

Wonderful home movie from 1963. As Dad is behind the camera, it is left to Mum to don the Santa suit and deliver gifts to the children at night time.

Funfair rides, Punch and Judy, and competitions for the young and young-at-heart at Cotton Village Fete, Suffolk in 1972.

Bonny and Clyde and a Corpse Bride. A fancy dress parade impresses a crowd at the Cotton village fete, Suffolk in 1968.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.