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.
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2977 results found
Mrs Bloxham Race Driver
Easter stock car racing in Staines, from 1959.
17 MB
1950s, sport, video
Cubs
Cub Scouts during bob-a-job week, from 1959
6 MB
1950s, childhood, video
Sunny Weather
Nice weather in Dover in 1959
4 MB
1950s, leisure, video
Farmer College
The Farming Institute run by Surrey County Council, from 1959.
9 MB
1950s, people, video
Horse Riding
Horse riding at Chiddingfold in 1959.
5 MB
1950s, sport, video
Waterloo Bomb
A 2,000 pound German bomb was been removed from the area around Waterloo station. Bomb disposal experts of the Royal Engineers supervised its loading onto a lorry for transfer to Shoeburyness. From 1959
9 MB
1960s, events, video
Motor Racing
Stirling Moss motor racing at Aintree in 1959
4 MB
1950s, sport, video
Chemistry Teachers
two members of the school staff - Henry Oscar as Mr Dobbs and Ballard Berkeley as Mr Vaughan. 'The Common Room', 1959
63 KB
1950s, people, images
Tennis
Britain's eighteen years old Christine Truman won her first national tennis title in 1959 - in the Italian Women's Singles. Her opponent, Sandra Reynolds, of South Africa, was quite outclassed.
2 MB
1950s, sport, video
Athletics
The White City Games and Derek Ibbotson's triumph in the two-mile race, from 1959.
7 MB
1950s, sport, video
Golf
Peter Butler won the 1959 Swallow-Penfold golf tournament with a score of 280. Weetman the winner for the past two years took second place and Dai Rees the Ryder Cup captain came third
5 MB
1950s, sport, video
Albert Hall
Keeping the roof of the Royal Albert Hall repaired was a continuous job for Michael Glynn and Michael Gormley, the two men who form part of the maintenance team for the building. From 1950s
6 MB
1950s, people, video
