At Wessex Film and Sound Archive you can see and hear history, from late Victorian times to the present day, through moving images and sound recordings. The Archive contains over 36,000 film and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, including film and tapes of local TV and radio.
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Winchester
A film profile of Winchester, featuring panoramas of the city and its medieval streets lined with shops. There’s also a mayoral procession and views of Winchester College.
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Overview
This colourful film showcases Winchester, once England's capital. Amid spring blossoms we see the medieval cathedral, period buildings and streets, still bearing traffic, that form the central shopping area. We also glimpse many of the city's modern, municipal buildings juxtaposed against more ancient structures. After a visit to the Peninsula Barracks we see a mayoral procession at the cathedral before joining the pupils of Winchester College and their parents.
This fascinating film captures Winchester's street scene in the period just prior to pedestrianisation. Any visitor to this ancient city today would find it hard to believe that traffic once passed through what is now a pedestrianised shopping area. Look out also for the many High Street names that have since disappeared - among them John Collier and MacFisheries.