Workers at Carr's Biscuit Works, Carlisle (1901)

Lancashire cotton-workers pile out through the mill gates at dinner time.

An astonishingly crowded Victorian street reveals the vast scale of Tyneside manufacturing.

Bicycles and broomsticks at the ready as workers finish shift at a marine engineering works in Victorian Hull.

Victorian Manchester mill workers enjoy the novelty of a moving picture camera.

Worshippers in their Sunday best file out of the Church.

A well-dressed church congregation gathers on the elegant portico.

Acclaimed author Hunter Davies travels the length of a magnificent Roman wall that stretches from industrial Tyneside to the Solway Firth.

"Men may pause, but rivers never" - a journey along the course of the Cumbrian river Eden.

Not just a chance to see locomotives steaming over viaducts, with the axe hanging over both, here we have the full glory of the Settle to Carlisle line, and its place in rural life.

Maintaining, evolving and revolutionising the landscape on an industrial scale with one of Britain's biggest builders.

Bringing the motorway to Cumbria's Lune Valley, whether it likes it or not.

Speeding round Britain by bike: taking in the scenery in a 1,600-mile competitive tour.

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.