Keep Fit

A Fine Feat of Endurance. Why swim the Channel when you can go by hydrocycle?

Their training regime includes lifting a lump of concrete into a tree - meet the Leicester tug-of-war team preparing to take on the world.

Who needs an iron when you have a jam jar to hand? The Hints and Hobbies team return for the last surviving edition of the weekly cinemagazine.

This film sees Sheffield Council reform and modernise their approach to female leisure activities for their diverse and busy community.

From out of the vaults comes this pre-WWII cinema advert for ice-cream.

The Vetch Field stadium in Swansea is occupied by Urdd Gobaith Cymru – The Welsh League of Hope – for 2 days of mass gymnastics in June 1933.

A truly impressive exhibition of calisthenics from two teams of girls - perhaps an early talent contest?

Barrels of laughs and sackfuls of fun at a school sports event in Edwardian West Yorkshire.

Pedal power wins, whatever the weather, as cycle-mad teenagers put the miles in for a pre-Christmas weekend of festive fun by the sea.

A demonstration of sport and fitness by members of the Indian Army

Join the crowds dazzled by keep-fit frolics, a record breaking air race, a speed boat celebrity and joy-riding at an air circus in this 1931 film from the Bognor Regis Film Society.

Joining the Countrywide Holiday Association after the war to keep fit brought Jo Peters another reward - a wife!

English Riviera resort offers full accessibility for wheelchair users.

Is your husband a layabout? Then attach him to a leash and take him for a walk round the park.

A witty, eccentric guide to safety on two wheels under the watchful eye of a pedalling angel.

A London park and artist Welsby runs repeatedly into frame and off into the distance.

Cambridge undergrads reach new heights!

Victorian seadogs fighting fit

With war over, Butlin's was back in business. Happy campers were keen for a taste of fresh air and exercise - with all ages, shapes and sizes limbering up and letting their hair down!

Seaside larks aplenty in this very early home movie by pioneer amateur filmmaker Alfred Passmore

Sailors do fashionable exercises at Portsmouth

London schoolboys demonstrate impressive range of gymnastic moves for the cameras.

Lancashire children perform physical education exercises in (almost) perfect unison.

Ancient Greek states battle it out in shorts on the playing fields of Aysgarth

A film highly commended in 1950 by the National Eisteddfod in Caerffili, the Scottish Amateur Film Festival, and Amateur Cine World magazine.

Exercises to stimulate the healthy development of the growing child: vaulting, somersaulting, hurdling, jumping, leap-frogging, dancing – and violin playing.

A naked woman cavorts innocently at the seaside in this 1940s nudist film, strictly for artists and students only

A companion to Highlanders Drilling, the two films attest to the sheer athleticism of the regiment.