Southport Carnival and Trades Procession (1902)

Church school pupils set off for a trip to the famous Birmingham entertainment hall.

A damp and murky day greets the annual Whitsuntide Catholic procession in Edwardian Manchester.

May Queens and drag queens, cadets and clowns: thousands turn out for an Edwardian fundraiser in the Merseyside town.

An Edwardian congregation emerges after Sunday service in Accrington, Lancashire.

Residents of Manchester's own 'Little Italy' put on a display of religious pomp during the city's annual Whit Walk.

Dublin's Catholic faithful wend their way home after Sunday service.

When you're on a pier this long, you can be forgiven for taking public transport

Windows of opportunity: how a charity aimed to improve the lives of blind and partially sighted people.

Floral delights and more from around the North West.

Gentle thrills on the North West coast - a fun day out for everyone, without getting a hair or whisker out of place.

Lord Derby opens Southport's fancy new bathing lake and pavilion in this newsreel item

Push-nets, riddling and picking - the last days of the shrimping industry of Southport.

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Upon returning to her home town for a funeral, a young woman reconnects with the friends she left behind.