Spotlight at the Fair

Funny Up North

Documentary featuring a cavalcade of Northern comedy stars including the great Frank Randle, George Formby, Arthur Askey, Norman Evans and many more.

2011

From Liverpool to Stratford

This Traveltalk series short visits several points of interest in England, including the port of Liverpool, war destruction at Coventry, the historic

1949

Clacton Pier

The family enjoys a sunny but windy day on the pier in Clacton-On-Sea.

1964

Surrey Frolics on the Green

Carousels, doubling up on the helter skelter and an enormous key feature in the annual funfair on Mitcham Green.

1927

Blackpool Promenade

This captivating early film - by an unknown filmmaker - offers a glimpse of glorious Blackpool and the many delights it offers holidaymakers.

1924

Sweetest Tooth

Sweetest Tooth is a documentary covering the story of chocolate from beans and beginnings to product and palette. With this farm-to-table storytelli

2024

Blackpool, Harden and Grange-over-Sands

A colourful miscellany of footage from both sides of the Pennines.

1968

M-TOWN The Hidden Olympic Village

Short documentary film about Maryland, a corner of Stratford neglected by the Olympic ‘regeneration’. Seen through the eyes of veteran grime emcee Chr

Carousel

An actuallity film of a fairground carousel in action. Filmmaker unknown but it has been suggested it is R.W. Paul. The film was made on Hampstead hea

1896

Ancient Mop Fair

The annual mop fair in Stratford-Upon-Avon, including the roasting of an ox.

1914

Fight for the F.A. Cup

The best of the action from over 30 years of FA Cup finals at Wembley Stadium.

1963

Holiday

Lively holiday in Blackpool, with jazz accompaniment.

1957

Happy Sea Side Holidays

An enterprising family make the most of, not one, but eight seaside beaches dotted around the north of England, all in one summer.

1956

Bhaji on the Beach

A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.

1993

Like It Is

A young, bare-knuckle boxer Craig moves from Blackpool to London, where he falls for a twenty-something music producer, Matt. Trouble ensues when shy,

1998

Funny Bones

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—start

1995

Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h

2017

Forbidden

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic

1949

Bull

Ten years after he was last seen, a vicious mob enforcer returns home to find his son and methodically track down the gang that double-crossed him. Hi

2021

NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II

NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II is a WWE Network event produced by WWE for their NXT UK brand. It takes place at the Empress Ballroom in Blackpool, Lanc

2020