Workmen Leaving Peacock's Works at Meal Time, Gorton, Manchester (1900)

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.

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

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

A brisk look at the tests and education practices for deaf people in 1940s

Faith in the inner city - the mission of the Sharon Full Gospel Church in Manchester.

Manchester is 'Tickled Pink' with this annual celebration of LGBT life.

Earning and learning, as an apprentice begins his working life.

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.