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Beauty in the Borough

An amateur film of floral colour in Haringey.

Southgate Celebrates the Coronation

Newsreel footage of celebrations in Southgate for the 1953 Coronation

Local views of Friern Barnet

Local footage from the Friern Barnet area

Arsenal May 1971

Arsenal victory parade after the team's legendary 1971 double victory.

What Future for Haringey?

A municipal film considering Haringey's future.

About Hampstead

A film celebrating the surrounds of Hampstead.

Southgate Newsreel

Lord Mayor of London sets the foundation stone for a…

Bazaar Nov'64/Edmonton Dec'64 onwards

Christmas scenes and Street scenes of Edmonton.

Change in Friern Barnet

Local 2 local footage around Friern Barnet

Hampstead Old & New

Amateur film featuring some of Hampstead's buildings and notable locations.

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Highlights

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Beauty in the Borough

An amateur film of floral colour in Haringey.

Mountview High School: The Video

The end of an era at Mountview High School…

Topical Budget: £100,000 Damage! 1,500 Out-Of-Work!, Chiswick (1928)

40 fire engines unsuccessfully battle a raging fire that…

Your Home

Film explaining how the Borough is modernising its old…

Croydon in the 1970s, Part 1

A walk around Croydon featuring local businesses, residential streets,…

What Future for Haringey?

A municipal film considering Haringey's future.

Irish In Brent

Fabulous documentary on the immigration of Irish people to…

Uxbridge Bed Race

Amateur video record of Uxbridge's annual charity bed race.

North London Street Party - Reclaim the Streets…

An amateur film that captures the chaos and crowds…

Bond First School: A Parent's Guide

A video guide to Bond Primary School aimed at…

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Themes

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Topical Budget: One Way Of Solving The Traffic Problem (1924)

Walking, crammed on to trucks or gleefully riding bikes, commuters…

Buses at Ilford Broadway

Sequences of various London buses circa 1983, navigating High Road,…

Topical Budget: ‘Johnnie’s’ Welcome Home, Croydon (1930)

Incredible scenes as an estimated one million people descend on…

Joan Littlewood Pleasure Roll 54 - underground station, people

Going underground. Take a trip on the tube in 1963 with…

Seatbelt Sense

Road safety film promoting the wearing of seat belts in…

The Tale of Elsie Bossing

An animated road safety film.            

Heathrow Airport

Amateur film of construction work at Heathrow Airport.

Grand Union Canal Summer Outing 1966

Trip on the Grand Union Canal from Brentford to Rickmansworth.…

Uneasy Rider

A road safety film aimed at schoolchildren.

Erith Road Safety

Road safety demonstrations for local school children in Erith. Street…

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London Museum

The Museum's moving image items are integrated into a number of other collection groups including moving image material related to the Museum's working history collections which record workplaces and work practices that have since disappeared e.g. Whitefriars glass, Marshall & Snelgrove department store, Richard Oliver, London’s last traditional watchmaker and George Payne & co., London’s last tea blender & packer. The Museum also holds ‘video-histories’, life story interviews with individual Londoners. This part of the collection has a strong bias towards capturing London’s cultural diversity. Moving image material is also held in their art collections,…

 

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