These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.
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2977 results found
Ballet
Georgina Parkinson and artists of the Royal Ballet in the final scene of Les Noces
35 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Ballroom Dancing 3
Dancers from the Northern Ireland team who competed against a team from Scotland West at the Locarno, Glasgow.
44 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Beach fun
People enjoying the good weather at the Beach at Helen's Bay in 1970
3 MB
1970s, leisure, video
Caravan
People enjoying the summer in a caravan park / campsite in Ireland, from 1970s
114 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Cinema
The Dominion Cinema in Southall in 1979
100 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Cycling
Cycling, from 1970s
8 MB
1970s, leisure, video
France
Children Talking - France, 1970s
1 MB
1970s, leisure, audio
Golf
Golf, from 1970s
8 MB
1970s, leisure, video
Pontins 1
The entrance to Pontin's Holiday Centre at Prestatyn, Wales, from 1974.
80 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Pontins
A sign for the now closed Pontin's Holiday Centre at Wick Ferry, Christchurch, Dorset, from 1977
93 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Pontins Chalet
Chalets at the now closed Pontin's Holiday Centre at Wick Ferry, Christchurch, Dorset, from 1977
108 KB
1970s, leisure, images
Telly
A Granada colour television set in the living room of a house in the 1970s,
99 KB
1970s, leisure, images
