The LOLympics

At their secret Peak District training camp outside Wirksworth a group of elite athletes prepare for an extreme sporting challenge.

Karts start hearts and minds racing in semi legal street race

Pushballers grapple with oversized ball

Beer and Bangers are almost a recipe for disaster in this English Pub

Exotic sporting events from water-skiing to wheel barrow racing are just two of the highlights of this amateur newsreel film.

Making merry to celebrate the monarchy: King George V’s silver jubilee in 1935 is the occasion of community festivities in Tredegar/area.

Tug-of-war and pushball - two of the classic sports on offer at this typical Oldbury works sports day.

Forget Sir W Raleigh laying down his cloak for the Queen. Here, Cardiff Amateur Cine Society members lay down their newspapers for the ladies!

Can you spot the cheat in this greedy contest?

Remembered by many but loved by few - that highlight of the school calendar - the sports day.

Stand well clear for this one - it's competitive brick and rolling pin throwing as the Strouds of the English speaking world come together.

A journey through the greenest parts of Barnet features sporting scenes of a Sunday league football and bowls matches.

An archetypal eccentric professor is a fitting presenter for an equally eccentric and ingenious bunch of human powered mobile contraptions.

From the rich man’s sport of power boats, to the poor man’s scrambling, and in between the mad lot playing football driving around in Cortinas.

Ever wondered where the conker capital of the world is? Thought not. Oh! Okay, if you insist: it's Aston in Northamptonshire.

From the decade that style forgot - it's the 1976 Portsmouth and Southsea Pram-Olympics!

Get that Kruschen Feeling! Pram race to fundraise for the Palace Theatre

Wolverley in Worcestershire boasts an unusual British champion with a record that would bring tears to your eyes.

Races of all sorts have been arranged for the children at Roald Dahl’s old school in Cardiff – and parents get a chance to race too!

Who will be the first to roll across the finish line?

Are champions made with a diet of cereal and Guinness? See the world recording breaking rat in his prime before he gets eaten by his owner’s cat.

Sports Day on Plymouth Hoe as children and parents find their feet

The Pushball – an enormous sphere filled with hot air and advertising the ‘Daily Mail’ - comes to Brecon annually, as part of the carnival.

Motorcyclists being asked to walk the plank and dismount for ‘spud and water'? What's going on?

In the Queen’s silver jubilee year, Halkyn provides an It’s a Knockout to remember despite the not so clement weather.

Halkyn Cricket Club opens its beautiful ground to fun and frolics on the sunny August bank holiday in 1975 and the drought-stricken one in 1976.

Danson Park, Welling, is the setting for a quintessential sports day featuring egg and spoon, sack and parents race.

Formula 3 and sports cars are unleashed on Crystal Palace Park's once thriving race circuit.

Colourful and lively home movie record of garden activities and school sports day in Enfield Town Park.

August shows in south Wales (Peterston-super-Ely, Pontypridd, Rumney, Aberdare and Whitchurch): horses, drays and the hammer and sickle.