Topical Budget Company

A gleaming giant of steam and its cute Lilliputian cousin are an even match in this newsreel battle of the trains.

The Duke rides an elephant as he ventures on safari in Bengal.

Billy the pet seal adapts to village life in Wereham, Norfolk.

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Women cricketers slog their male counterparts to the boundary in this fixture between Cobham Ladies and Manor Athletic in Richmond.

Footage of Spurs players training before the new football season, followed by shots of White Hart Lane being prepared.

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.

On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.

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

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

The start of the fox hunting season with the Cattistock Hunt in Maiden Newton, Dorset.

Stunning views from the boundary of the 1921 Australian touring team's first match.

Colonial troops greet London's new Lord Mayor in a patriotic wartime ceremony.

An aeronautical accident is caught on camera at a Parisian 'Aéro-Parc'.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

Scenes of WWI troops relaxing on Streatham Common, South London in a Topical Budget newsreel.

During an unusually harsh winter, a frozen trawler arrives on the river Thames.

The devil makes the biggest splash at Cookham's famed regatta.

Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.