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
Gales 3
Damage and destruction caused by gales across the country. 1957
9 MB
1950s, events, video
High Seas In Kent
High seas at Sandgate, Kent. 1957
8 MB
1950s, events, video
HMS Concord
Destroyer HMS Concord arrives at Portsmouth. 1957
19 MB
1950s, events, video
Xmas Pudding
Lord Mayor presents Christmas pudding to old people at the Three Score Club. 1957
8 MB
1950s, people, video
Sir John Hunt
Sir J Hunt visits Caldecott House to present young adults with their Silver Duke of Edinburgh Awards. 1957
12 MB
1950s, people, video
Barracks Visit 1
The Secretary of State for War, Mr Hare, visited Combermere Barracks to see progress of building work as old barracks are being replaced. He inspected a guard of honour of Life Guards and spoke of a programme for new Army quarters. 1957
9 MB
1950s, events, video
Barracks Visit 2
The Secretary of State for War, Mr Hare, visited Combermere Barracks to see progress of building work as old barracks are being replaced. He inspected a guard of honour of Life Guards and spoke of a programme for new Army quarters. 1957
14 MB
1950s, events, video
Christmas Shareout
Security guards are continually watching Broadway Congregational Hall, near busy Hammersmith Broadway. A sealed lorry took 150,000 pounds there for the annual Christmas shareout of Broadway Congregation Friendly Society by the Mayor. 1957
10 MB
1950s, people, video
Circus
Full dress rehearsal at Olympia of Bertram Mills Circus. 1957
11 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Trans-Atlantic Flight
The Britannia, which left for New York this morning and is the first scheduled British built airliner to do Transatlantic flights. 1957
20 MB
1950s, events, video
Christmas Traffic
The Minister of Transport, Mr Watkinson, is interviewed in the bustle and rain of Regent Street on the traffic problems of December that Christmas brings with it. 1957
17 MB
1950s, people, video
Rugby Match
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first game of organised Rugby football between Manchester and Liverpool, the Liverpool and Manchester clubs together played a team from two Southern clubs at Liverpool today. 1957
14 MB
1950s, sport, video
